Cw! Racism - Tumblr Posts
im gonna start off by apologizing for the rambling in this post about technoblade's situation. twitter is just grating on my nerves hard, and having all this happen to someone I hyperfixate on is, "buries face in hands".
And if this post isn't phrased all that well and I gave off the wrong vibes, my apologies. I don't have any ill intention towards the minorities affected in this situation, and if you want a certain line rephrased to accurately reflect my real meaning/message/intentions (but it didn't because I sucked at phrasing it) uh replies. DM. Ask. Whatever works to reach me.
To anyone who's affected by it too, whether it's because he's your hyperfixation, or not and you're just generally worried. Stay off twitter yeah, hope you're doing alright, uh have some water.
CW! Twitter Discourse , Ableism , Mentions of Asian Hate and Harassment.
Stop reading if you know well that it will trigger you. Please scroll past. Find a cute cat picture, maybe.
So, new hashtag trending. Wonderful, congratulations people on Twitter involved, you did something! You did something you thought was good! Good job! (/s)
this sounds super rude but, what the fuck mate? what was going through your mind when trending #kick-insert techno's real name- ? You had good intentions to call out people who deciding doxxing techno is okay. I can respect that, but tweeting about it with the hashtag? That's what gets it trending. Multitude of people tagging it.
how much traction did the og tweet of the doxxing get? how much attention was pulled to the situation AFTER the hashtag trended?
have anyone ever thought that, someone with, horrible anxiety, would reply to such a stressful situation? that maybe their mental health is on the brink after this shit?
Call him out on the bad shit he's done, that's fine. Good for you. But to this point of not considering someone else's side and expecting someone who's ND to rise to your NT standards is a pure shit move.
A week to apologize?
Look, I get it. It's been going on for awhile. But, who gave him a week to apologize? The minorites ACTUALLY affected? If so, that's alright, you're tired of waiting. That's fine. I can't say much. The only one I can say much about is the covid joke he made since I'm Chinese . I don't live in China, but I'm definitely Asian nonetheless.
Have you seen the full clip? Or did you only focus on the single part. He didn't completely disregard the Asian harassment and hate. He said before he made the joke: "horrific racism aside" .
And yes, I don't speak for the entire community, I know some people are hurt by the joke, especially (observation based) if you found out about the joke around this period of time where COVID is far worse compared to Feb 2020 when the joke was made. that's fine. Just because me and my friends aren't hurt doesn't mean you should be the same.
It's fine to ask for an apology, but to chase an apology to the point you're carrying out blatant heavy harassment towards another person is not okay.
But anyways, a week to apologize?
But if the one who gave this deadline isn't minorities actually affected? If it's the ones being performative and said "hey! You have a week to say sorry!" ?
ಠ‿ಠ what bro.
People are really chill with the easy side of adhd aren't they? Hm? Once the tough stuff about adhd comes up and shows itself, people really just flip faces quick huh? So quickly. Actually, no, once the tough stuff about a ND persons disorder comes up, flip.
shhhhh. listen hey hey hey hello listen. s h h h h h h h h don't say no more words. shush. sealed. keep your lips closed.
Claps clap yay I'm done weeeee. (not /s). I'm keeping this off the main Technoblade tag as this is more of a rant and it's definitely much heavier.
Hey I’m once again seeing discourse about PewDiePie (probably because he has been welcomed back into the larger community of youtube personalities playing Among Us like Corpse Husband, JackSepticEye and Cr1tikal) and I just want to remind people of his ugly racist history that he has never properly put behind him and in fact continues to perpetuate.
His fanbase has always been racist. He was one of the first big YouTubers and he has always made racially charged jokes and has said the n-word in videos - notably, targeting somebody else with it. I watched his content when I was a young child, I experienced these things first hand. There were racist jokes, rape jokes, and generally sexual jokes targeted for his younger demographic. He has always been known as problematic, as problematic was used back in 2012.
A preamble to his first exposé: in November 2016 he showed up to a taping of his own series produced by Maker Studios (Disney) wearing a shirt with a swastika on it. Somebody told him to change. He denies this ever happened, but acknowledged that the shirt exists. There are photos of him and a friend wearing it.
The thing he got caught for was when he paid two men $5 to write and hold up a sign with the words “Death To All Jews”. His apology was half-assed. He apologized for the way that it came across and did not acknowledge the reasons that it was wrong. Febuary 2017: he descends into utter alt-right reactionism, harassing the WSJ journalist and sending his fans after the publication to the point where the Journal offered to put the journalist in a safehouse.
September 2017, he called somebody he n-word on stream, just weeks after Charlottesville occurred - where his imagery, jokes, and memes were used as motivation. He went on to say he had no idea that Nazis actually existed, that the Nazi jokes he was making weren’t funny anymore, and that he would not be making them anymore.
In March 2019, a white supremacist livestreamed himself saying “Subscribe to PewDiePie” before committing mass-shootings in two Christchurch mosques, killing dozens and injuring more. He responded with a single tweet, that he felt sickened that his name left the man’s mouth, and that his heart went out to the people affected. Later, he called for an end to the Subscribe to PewDiePie meme and promised $50,000 to the Anti-Defamation League. He then retracted his decision, saying that he did not want to donate to something that he was not passionate about.
Felix Kjellberg has never made a single attempt to rid his fanbase of actual literal Nazis and white supremacist scum because he built his platform around them. He alone has radicalized probably half of the white nationalist/supremacist/Nazi men in America ages 18-25.
I will never forgive him.
This is taken from the Guardian article from above:
You could say that today’s digital economy has spawned a new “bro-nality of evil”. Racist memes serve as in-jokes that help solidify bonds between alienated white men online. The style of these memes, their overblown exaggerated nature, means we often don’t take them seriously. Dismiss them as jokes. But this is how antisemitism creeps into our lives. Not with a bang but with a punchline.
Happy Chanukkah, everyone.
I guessed correctly! Ian low-key proud of myself
Nancy Wake: the White Mouse (1912-2011) – Part One
So I’m doing something a little different for this entry. Instead of doing this breezy info-comic style, I’m doing a full-on graphic novel-length comic on the life of Nancy Wake. I’ll be releasing it in installments, divided out into different chapters of her life, as I complete it.
As it stands, I plan for this to be the last RP entry I do, at least for a long while. I’ve been doing this for five years now – when I started, there was almost nobody else doing this sort of work. But now, if I stop for a bit, there will be others carrying the torch.
I don’t plan on just slinking off into the ether. There’s other projects I want to be doing, which I’ve been putting together (which explains the slow posting rate here). I’ll be announcing those near the completion of the Nancy Wake story.
Thank you for reading, and I hope you’ll enjoy Nancy’s story. It’s truly incredible.
Art notes and whatnot will be up later today or tomorrow – I still haven’t finished the poster image for this yet.
Jesus reading this exchange with EG is painful, someone so convinced of their own righteousness and how important THEIR feelings and comfort are. Also a great example of how the definitions of racism are so poorly understood and defined.
Let’s Talk MCCC, Systemic Racism, and How People Of Color Are Excluded From Communities
You might have seen some posts today about MCCC’s Discord and how they allow posts from racists or participating in racism, but threathen or ban people for talking about racism and delete their messages. If not, check the post here and the reblog here. I’m here to shed some light on the situation, and showcase different times I’ve seen discussion on racism shut down, and racists go without warning.
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When Europeans are like “God America is so fucked up, they really need to examine their racist ways.” and then ask what’s wrong with Zwarte Piet
Let’s Talk MCCC, Systemic Racism, and How People Of Color Are Excluded From Communities
You might have seen some posts today about MCCC’s Discord and how they allow posts from racists or participating in racism, but threathen or ban people for talking about racism and delete their messages. If not, check the post here and the reblog here. I’m here to shed some light on the situation, and showcase different times I’ve seen discussion on racism shut down, and racists go without warning.
Keep reading
ATTENTION
The US government just killed Lezmond Mitchell, a Native American man.
It is against the law for the US Government to order the death of a tribal citizen without the approval of the corresponding sovereign Nation's approval. The Navajo Nation (to whom Mitchell belongs) actively campaigned against his execution. This is the first execution of a Native American by the occupying US government in modern times.
This is a Big Fucking Deal.
A truly moving story via Gregory McKelvey. Removing police from schools is an urgent need, especially for Black students.
CPD just killed a fifteen year old child.
I haven’t yet seen a tumblr post with these resources so I am making my own and hoping it shows up in the tags. I ASK EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS TO PLEASE REBLOG THIS.
THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT (ICWA) IS UNDER ATTACK. AND WE NEED HELP TO PROTECT IT USING THE RESOURCES BELOW.
I am not going to go into heavy detail on the bill, on its history, anything like that, the resources have a lot of information, but as a little bit of background:
It is a bill passed that forbids Native children from being adopted by non-Native families. This is for a good fucking reason, there have been historically large scoops of children taken from their Native families, at a much higher rate than white children (see the 60s scoop in Canada). These children are often abused in these homes, and their entire culture is taken from them (many end up not even knowing what tribe/nation they came from), hence the point of why they were taken in the first place (forced assimilation). Now, this does still happen through the foster care system, but this has protected in the case of adoption. It makes it that only Native families can adopt Native children.
White people hate this and have been smearing it for years (think of the whole Lexi Choctaw/Alexandria P. situation, which was so fucked how they used that little girl). Now, the state governments of Texas, Louisiana, and Indiana have taken it to the Supreme Court to be ruled unconstitutional. This case is called Haaland v. Brackeen. Because white people … really want to steal Native children. This is being heard by the court, oral arguments start WEDNESDAY. ICWA could be overturned in the matter of weeks or even days.
PLEASE USE ALL OF THESE TO PROTECT ICWA:
Petition that will involve you sending messages to your Congressional leaders through their text automated system, only available to those in the US (BUT NOTE YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A CITIZEN, OR ELIGIBLE TO VOTE TO SIGN, JUST NEED TO BE IN THE US):
https://resist.bot/petitions/PCCPGW
Petition to send a message to President Biden and leaders at the Department of Justice, this does have a place to put in your country so seems like it may be available for those outside of the US but I am unsure (consider also donating to the Lakota People’s Law Project if you are able to):
https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/protect-icwa
Petition to be sent to the Attorney General and Secretary of the Department of the Interior, since it is through change.org it likely can be signed from outside of the US:
https://www.change.org/p/protect-the-indian-child-welfare-act
PLEASE SIGN AS MANY AS YOU ARE ABLE TO. PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU SEE THIS. PLEASE HELP US PROTECT ICWA.
Please sign the petition!!!
A full explanation of #reviewbombgate, a major scandal that broke on Booktwt this week.
Please support the books and authors impacted the most:
Kamilah Cole - So Let Them Burn
Bethany Baptiste - The Poisons We Drink
Molly X Chang - To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods
Frances White - Voyage of the Damned
KM Enright - Mistress of Lies
RM Virtues - the Gods of Hunger series
(PS. I know people love to jump to "YA authors are always acting up" and assume any author with a femme-sounding name writes YA so lemme say right now that this author writes adult sci-fi.)
Another Character sheet, this time for Wolf's alternate counterpart.
I guess I should make a content warning for some mild mentions of racism/discrimination, human experimentation, and child abuse/spousal abuse.
*Name: Kevin Rome was named by his mother because she refused to let his father have any say in anything after he was born.
*Nicknames: Called Bone in Wolf form, called Kev for short.
*Race/Species: So here's where it gets a bit odd...Kevin doesn't actually know he's Russian-American. On the post-apocalyptic Earth of the 5a universe, Slavic/former Soviet Union ethnicities are treated with racist hatred because of their association with the empire that essentially destroyed the world. Kevin's parents are still from Russia, but they hid this information upon arrival in the US and disguised themselves as German-Americans. Aside from that situation, his story of how he got the Wolf form is the same as Roman's--he was diagnosed with a genetic muscle wasting disease, and he overwrote his human DNA with wolf DNA, becoming what he is now.
*Age: 30, as he was born in 1993 in the US and it's 2024.
*Gender: Male, identifies as such.
*Alignment: Neutral Evil, as he has extremely loose morals and believes that nothing should impede the path of science. He developed a horrible habit of experimenting on fellow bunker dwellers without their knowledge, by adding things to their food or drink, or pricking them with a needle when they aren't paying attention.
*Class/Job: He was eventually busted by the Bunker's security and was exiled, technically making him an illegal scientist. He continued his shady work in the nearby Anarchy City, a bombed-out Pittsburgh home to Rejects, people rejected from the bunkers for various (and sometimes idiotic) reasons. I should've added that he's also a dual Mayor with Fang of Anarchy City, after they worked together to clear it out of rival gangs.
*Perception: Being a paranoid being, he's constantly on the lookout for trouble.
*Communication: A nervous wreck who stumbles over his words in most situations.
*Persuasion: Same issue as above, hard to buy what he's saying when he's sweating bullets talking to you.
*Mediation:...Yet decent at getting people to not argue and reach an agreement with each other.
*Literacy: Growing up in an abusive household where his shrew of a mother prevented him from talking to other children and considered his high intelligence to be a curse, and his father unable to put a stop to it, Kevin relied on books growing up...well, what little of books survived the raging fires of the nuclear exchange. When he ran away from home to work in the nearby bunker at the age of 16, he gained access to a significant amount of information that survived the destruction, becoming the well read man he is now.
*Creativity: And his creativity bloomed as a result, coming up with unique ways to deal with almost any situation.
*Cooking: His mother taught him to cook so she didn't have to anymore. So he's knowledgeable of a few recipes, and prefers to cook his meat rather than eat it raw like Roman.
*Tech Savvy: His father did teach him how to repair machines and salvage for scraps in the nearby ruins of towns, so he's knowledgeable in getting even the most broken of machines working again.
*Combat: Kevin never received the martial arts training that Roman did, and was simply given a gun to protect himself from the mutant animals and roving bandits. In Wolf fork, he's a lot stronger though.
*Survival: He knows the same basic survival skills as the others in his world.
*Stealth: Same issues with Roman, very tall both in human and in wolf form, very clunky.
*Street Smarts: He's familiar with wasteland lingo and has developed a fear of anything unusual or new, making him decently adapted in the chaotic nuke world.
*Seduction: LMAO no.
*Luck: Has no better or worse luck than most people, but he does fall on his face a lot when attempting something risky.
*Handling animals: Animals hate his wolf form. They're otherwise neutral to his human side.
*Pacifying children: He's learned from the failed parenting of his mother and can empathize with children really well.
*Strength: Weak as a human, strong as a wolf, but rarely gets exercise so he's not as strong as Roman.
*Dexterity: Clunky paws make it hard to manipulate things like he can in his human form. I probably should've put it at 3 instead of 2.
*Health: Weak as human, better as wolf.
*Energy: He finds himself having to sleep more after doing anything strenuous.
*Beauty: With his bad hygiene and lack of good self care, he's not considered as handsome as Roman, regardless of his current form.
*Style: Always wearing the dirty lab coat.
*Hygiene: Suffers from the same issue as Roman, with having human lymph nodes under his wolf fur, so he can develop a furious smell. Sadly, he doesn't have good self-care habits, so he's sometimes gnarly to be around.
*Intelligence: As with Roman, his brain mutated exponentially after birth, which his parents regarded as a strange and scary curse. Not wanting to get attention lest it expose the family as being from the Soviet Union, they forced him to withhold his talents from the world. His father was a bit more understanding however, and secretly loaned him books that he could get a hold of.
*Happiness: Living in a deathworld is bad enough, but growing up with a horrible mother who diminished his self-worth and contributed to his anxiety disorder really did numbers on his overall happiness. Like Fang, his role in helping clean up Anarchy City and control it has also led to him developing paranoia.
*Spirituality: Raised Christian by mostly his father, Kevin has relied on his belief in God to pull him through the tough times growing up. However, that hasn't stopped him from developing a twisted set of morals that allow him to see himself as a good Christian while doing very un-Christ-like behavior like experimenting on his fellow man.
*Confidence: Crippling anxiety, childhood abuse, and a pessimistic outlook has knocked his confidence into the toilet.
*Humor: Relies on either self-deprecating humor or insulting someone else.
*Anxiety: As stated before, has an anxiety disorder that is relatively untreated and exacerbated by the volatile world around him.
*Patience: Decently patient in most situations, but will get easily annoyed in others.
*Passion: His drive for knowledge and science have driven him to a dark path. But as time goes on, he's starting to doubt his life choices.
*Charisma: Lol.
*Empathy: While he can cruelly look down on people he feels superior to for whatever reason, there are times when he does have a sudden stroke of empathy towards a particularly sad situation.
*Generosity: Believes that communities can be stronger when they are generous, but doesn't practice this often.
*Wealth: Controlling Anarchy City has led to them being de facto wealthy.
*Aggression: Rarely aggressive himself, Kevin is more of a coward at heart.
*Libido: Aro-ace and having a very weak libido doesn't mix.
I'll add more later, and I'll repost this when I do.