talked to a historian friend who works with yuri pivovarov, who told me he was denied cancer treatment in germany because he’s russian. yuri pivovarov. this is all so stupid
These people are, in fact, actually evil and completely lacking in any sort of empathy for their fellow humans.
This is not an exaggeration.
Literally laughing at young children. Being tear-gassed.
There are Disney cartoon villains who wouldn’t even do that.
I know people like to say “nazis are people” but they’re fucking not, they’re daemons, and they want to create a literal Hell on Earth
Don’t look away from this. Don’t be silent. Hold them accountable, hold their supporters accountable. Make it clear that this is not right, not welcome, and that it is answerable. Force acquaintances and relatives who prop these people up to look at this, make them explain it to you. Demand they tell you why they’re okay with it so they have to say it out loud. Make them uncomfortable. Make them see it. Make them answer.
it’s horrific and i fear to see how this will impact russian people (or, let’s be more real, slavic people in general), but it’s also patheticomic how orgs are desperate to have a stance on the conflict so they’ll do dumb shit like remove/change even tangentially russian things
“Just Dance Has Removed Ra Ra Rasputin From Their Roster”
Like, this is so…
And it’s such a good point to include all Slavic people in this. I honestly believe that most Americans, if presented parts of Ukrainian culture and art, would not be able to distinguish it from Russian without being told.
My point isn’t “all Slavic cultures are the same,” but rather, “if you discriminate against one Slavic culture, how do you think ignorant people are going to separate them?” If you’re trying to monger anti-Russian sentiments by banning/disavowing Russian culture, what do you think someone’s reaction to seeing something in Ukrainian writing (which shares a script with Russian) will be out of context? Do you think people so intent to hate Russia will take the time to learn the difference between Russian and Bulgarian names, or will they reject consuming any art by someone with a surname like Petrova or Velichkov because it “sounds Russian”?
But even putting other cultures aside, banning pieces of Russian culture that have no ties to the current political situation is just a clear sign of prejudice. It isn’t pro Ukraine, it’s just anti Russia, and it’s basically saying that the Russian people deserve to suffer even more because of the actions of their government, which are out of their control.
And the reply? It is so ignorant to believe that Tchaikovsky of all things is really the focal point of this argument. As great as Tchaikovsky is, I’m going to say that a decrease in Russian classical music isn’t going to be noticed, and it’s not going to change the way people think about Russia. But modern Russian novels? Movies made by Russians about Russian? Especially ones exposing hardships of Russian citizens? Banning things like that lets Americans be even more willfully ignorant about foreign affairs.
“Language isn’t neutral or objective. It is a vessel of cultural stories, values, and norms. And in the United States, everyday language plays into the violent, foundational myth of this country’s origin story—Europeans ‘discovering’ a virtually uninhabited wilderness and befriending the few primitive peoples who lived there—as well as other cultural myths and lies about Indigenous Peoples that are baked into U.S. culture and everyday life.
Cleve Davis (Shoshone-Bannock) points out that everyday language continues discrimination that is an extension of the centuries-long federal policy of genocide, assimilation, and oppression toward the original peoples of North America.
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It might seem harmless when your boss mentions the need for a powwow among the company’s executives or an online quiz promises to reveal your spirit animal, but everyday language like this is a result of centuries of violence and continues to perpetuate stereotypes that have real-life impacts on Native communities.”
On this day in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by the U.S. government for conspiracy to commit espionage during the Cold War. Artist Adrian Piper responded to this moment of fear in American history with Xenophobia I: Anti-Semitism (1987) in the Jewish Museum collection.
“Xenophobia I: Anti-Semitism challenges us to scrutinize ourselves in the act of xenophobic rejection, and simultaneously the rationalizations we invoke to defend ourselves against the truth of our actions. The Rosenberg case focused inward the fears of Communist contamination and infiltration generated by the Cold War and the Army-McCarthy hearings. We used the Rosenbergs to transform our fear of an alien other invading us from outside into fear of one another, alienating ourselves from the suspected invader within us: the idea of sharing, trust, and mutual solidarity."—Adrian Piper, 1988
Okay, here’s the problem with the idea that oppressed groups can “alienate allies” by not being nice enough:
You shouldn’t be an ally because oppressed groups are nice to you. You should be an ally because you believe they deserve basic human rights. Hearing “I hate men” shouldn’t make men stop being feminist. Hearing “fuck white people” shouldn’t make white people stop opposing racism.
Your opposition to oppression should be moral, and immovable. Your belief that all humans should be treated with equal respect shouldn’t be conditional based on whether or not individual people are nice to you.
TW// Donald Trump, patriarchy, sexism, misogyny, violence.
The beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency marks the beginning of an open war on all women in America. Whereas before, the patriarchy attempted to conceal their sexism, it is now totally open. The only option left to us is to RESIST, by any means necessary.
I’m not interested in your insistence on “non-violence” or “reasoned debate.” You don’t have conversations with people who disagree with your basic human rights, who disagree with your right to live, who deny your very soul. Let me repeat, for those who didn’t get it: YOU DO NOT DEBATE WITH PEOPLE WHO DENY YOUR HUMANITY. My humanity WILL NOT BE DENIED!!
If violence is necessary to force your opinion on others, then do it. We are right, we are on the right side of history, and that gives us the right to impose our beliefs on the racists, misogynists, sexists, Islamophobes, xenophobes, and anyone with the privilege to benefit from these systems of oppression that now dominate Western society.
TAKE YOUR “COOPERATION” AND “DEBATE” AND GO FUCK YOURSELF.
I’m not fucking interested. My opinions and rights will not be denied.
some geek: um not all cops r bad ? my dad’s a cop he doesnt kill black people
me internally: all cops are shitty because all cops are accomplices to the systemic repression carried out by the state and they’re agents of violence on both the structural and the individual level….by doing their job aka being a ‘good cop’ theyre carrying out a level of brutal violence and violation that police oversight committees and journalists refuse to see. U can’t demilitarize an institution that protects capitalism, breaks strikes, and upholds white supremacy. U cant sensitivity train away the fundamentally racist, antiblack, and xenophobic purpose of an institution that was created to segregate and criminalize and brutalize people because its very notions of criminality and aggressiveness belong to white supremacy.
everything about what the police are supposed to do is the problem and all cops participate in this. cops exist to maintain the law and order of the capitalist class, to maintain the white supremacist capitalist cisheteropatriarchy, to criminalize and brutalize the poor, the queer, and people of color. all others whose existence challenges the system will be subdued. there are no good cops
what i say: FUCK YA DAD TOO BITCH! I SAID WHAT I SAID!
The result of this interdisciplinary groups’ work is this thorough and unique report on the Sweden Democrats voters, who they are, where they come from, and where they are headed. It was first presented in Swedish in the summer of 2018 just before the Swedish Parliamentary Elections. I’m very happy that it is now available for an international audience since the results are of general interest when one tries to understand the global trend of the rise of radical right wing political parties. The rich data set makes it possible to analyse and understand the values and motivations of voters supporting such parties in an unusually detailed way and it is my hope that this report will inspire similar studies in other countries…
The Sweden Democrats have attracted voters from both the right and the left, primarily from the Conservative Party (Moderaterna) and the Social Democrats, as well as from groups who were previously non-voters (SCB, 2016; Valforskningsprogrammet, 2018). Thus, the backgrounds of Sweden Democrat voters vary, and it is not entirely clear what they have in common. This report poses a number of different questions: How – and to what extent – do Sweden Democrat voters differ from those who vote for other parties? Why have they moved away from the parties they previously voted for, and is it likely that they will return to them? What political opinions do they hold, besides being critical of immigration? Is their view of immigration driven by a concern over societal change or is it a manifestation of a more deep-rooted antipathy towards immigrants? And finally, to what extent are there differences within the group of Sweden Democrat voters, i.e. how homogenous a group are they?
English version of one report I ran across, and just started wading into. Which looked interesting enough to share, particularly as this might extend to the continuing growth of the far right elsewhere.
(Maybe extra interesting to me in the particulars, since I understand from elsewhere that we’ve just moved into SD’s regional stronghold of support. Skåne in general, apparently, more than the city of Malmö itself.)
A geography and history refresher, in the wake of Irma and Maria
I am really appalled by comments that I’ve seen about us coming to the aid of Puerto Rico, which has been brutally ravaged back-to-back by hurricanes Irma and Maria - comments about how they don’t deserve our “foreign” aid, they send too many “illegals” and “refugees” here…
So, I thought it would be worthwhile to share the following:
⭕ Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory! Therefore, they are not a “foreign” land. ⭕ Puerto Rico is not a U.S. territory by our virtue and goodwill - we took control of Puerto Rico in a war with Spain. ⭕ All Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens. Not a single person born on Puerto Rican soil, is “illegal.” ⭕ Puerto Ricans were made U.S. citizens by the U.S. Congress - despite Puerto Rican protests - in the 1910s, which meant that Puerto Rican men were subsequently drafted into World War I. ⭕ Puerto Rico has **ZERO** voting representation in Congress - therefore, they cannot vote on things like the budget (which includes hurricane relief), whether or not to go to war, etc. ⭕ Puerto Ricans are not Mexican. ⭕ Puerto Rico is an island - and therefore, they don’t share ANY border with the contiguous United States. This makes “Build That Wall” chants sound even more stupid and vile.
Let’s not spite our fellow countrymen and women, just because their native tongue isn’t English.
I wrote a piece for the BuzzFeed Community Summer Challenge and I would really appreciate the support of just clicking the link. The post is my first attempt at a movie review/sarcastic and honest criticism of Arab American stereotypes.
We often talk about marginalized people and how they are the most oppressed within a society.
To be “marginalized” means that you do not fit in with the norm; it means that the way you identify is on the outside. You are not center stage and front page. You are, in fact, on the margins of the page.
I’m a supporter of most marginalized communities. I root for the underdog. I care about folks being treated fairly within a democratic society no matter how they identify or how they were born.
But there’s one group that I just can’t get behind. There’s one marginalized group that I refuse to back and support in their endeavors to bring awareness to their cause. I try not to give them my time, resources, labor, or money.
I’m talking about the group known as stupid idiots.
Now, I know what you’re going to say. I can hear you from the other side of your device screen: “They’re the majority, not the minority, not the marginalized, not the oppressed!” I can hear you screaming that “idiots are currently in control!” or something like that.
And while that might be true for politics and government, I want to focus on another kind of stupid idiot right now. Given that a lot of my focus has lately been dedicated to the relationships between Black and Asian communities, I’ve come across a lot of discourse that suggests the existence of a group of stupid idiots who believe that a race war between people of Black and Asian descent is coming soon.
The latest round of conversation centers on events that have taken place in Minneapolis Minnesota. An Asian woman was kicked in the face while waiting for public transportation.
In response to that incident an Asian man in Minnesota allegedly (we will come back to that word momentarily) roamed the streets in the middle of the night to find a Black guy to attack.
There is video of both of these incidents.
Now, most people would agree that the attackers in both videos are stupid. The teens were stupid to kick the woman in the face, and the Asian guy was stupid for attacking a random Black person in the streets.
It’s the stupid idiots that would try to justify either of these actions. Idiots would blame this pandemic on Asians and justify the teens attacking the Asian woman. Idiots would watch this man walk around a neighborhood in search of “revenge” and think “yeah he’s doing the right thing.”
It’s no surprise that these idiots mainly live in the comments sections of the outlets that post about these stories. You’ve got NextShark for Asians, The Shade Room for Black folks, and a whole bunch of other fb and ig pages to choose from; some more biased than others; some more antagonistic than the rest.
And my focus here today is actually on those outlets, and one in particular that has gained a massive following on instagram and one that I have had private run ins with in the past. “AsiansWithAttitudes” is an instagram page that promotes itself as being “pro asian”, “Asian first”, and a “voice of the asian people”
Typically I love this type of action from the Asian community. I’m a strong believer in Asian people stepping up and representing themselves in the media and in the world. For far too long, Asians have been put on the back burner, and so places like Nextshark, Angry Asian Guy, Ricefeed and plenty more pages act as a beacon of confidence for Asian people, young and old.
Unfortunately, these pages don’t have huge staff, and so the comments often get out of control when a stupid idiot enters the chat. It only takes one of them to light the flame of racist conversation, whether they’re trolling or not, whether they’re asian or not, because we know that there are plenty of bots out there behind faceless profiles saying any and everything to start some mess, and suddenly people who align with that high key antiblackness show up in droves. It happens all-of-the-time.
The good news is that stupid idiots are the minority. They’re on the margins in this specific instance, because I constantly see a lot of Asian folks also calling out the negative double standard and unfortunate situation of being a minority in the position that Asians are in, while simultaneously existing next to Black people, a people with a very long history of oppression in *this* country.
Most people are actually smart. Most people get it, and most people don’t try to compare what is happening now with the state-backed and protected murder of Black folks that has existed throughout the history of the United States.
And so, I typically leave the comments alone. Stupid idiots are going to be stupid idiots.
But what do you do when you have a page like AsiansWithAttitudes? What happens when one of the stupid idiots rises and makes an instagram page that amasses a huge following and becomes a haven for people who constantly measure their oppression against the oppression of Black people and blames them for their suffering, instead of pointing at the actual reason for the division?
If you haven’t figured it out by now, this isn’t all about a single instagram page. Rather it’s about a collective of people who think like the person running that page and their followers. These Asians who think they’re doing the right thing in their pursuit of social justice by somehow throwing one of the most oppressed groups on the ladder of privilege under the bus? They’re stupid idiots.
They may be in the minority, and therefore a marginalized group, but I feel nothing for them and I can’t support them in their misguided efforts at fake wokeness; not when they’re incapable of doing the simple algebra that it takes to realize that Black people aren’t the enemy just because some Black people are attacking Asians in the streets.
But their antiblackness shows. Their disdain for Black people oozes through their words and positions on these matters so clearly that I can’t help but shake my head at how idiotic they truly look.
If you’re out there and you’re Asian and you are looking to do something to move Asian people forward, don’t be like these people. Do a lot better.
The Trump administration announced Tuesday it would unwind an Obama-era program that allows younger undocumented immigrants to live in the country without fear of deportation. Here’s Barack Obama’s response.
Paysend is no longer an option for transfering money or working with. They’ve QUIETLY deleted my country from the options to make tranfers to. No official announcement, just “well, fuck you, haha”.
I’ll look for some other options to maybe work with people around the world. But I’m just starting to feel tired and apathetic. My people are being isolated, hated and picked on, just for living in Russia and being Russian. This is not justifiable. Don’t tell me it’s justified. It’s just same double standarts, hatred, xenophobia, all the shit Europeans and Americans say they’re fighting against of. This - is bullshit.
I’ll find my ways to work, pay bills, help my family and friends, and not fucking starve to death. It’s just wont be the same and I’ll probably won’t be able to work with people outside my country. For how long? I have no clue. Many people I’ve worked with - know me pretty well. I’ve been nothing but kind, understanding, I’ve worked my ass off to make people happy, to make sure they are pleased with my work. Many of them - I can call friends now. I’m thankful to them, for everything. And I’m sorry that I won’t be able to work with them again for some time. Hopefully not forever.
I’ll post last few commissions I was able to work on and then - I don’t know. I’ll need to take a break, because my mental health is decreasing very fast and I’m not happy, seeing all the hatred and misery on the internet. It’s not helping at all, duh…
I hope you all have a nice day and that all of this shit haven’t affected you too much. Моим русским подписчикам и просто землякам - мы это все переживем. Держитесь.
As scholar Lewis Parry Curtis notes in his Apes and Angels: the Irishman in Victorian Caricature (1971):
It was comforting for some Englishmen to believe — on the basis of the best scientific authority in the Anthropological Society of London — that their own facial angles and orthognathous features were as far removed from those of apes, Irishmen, and Negroes as was humanly possible … The simianizing of Paddy in the 1860s thus emanated from the convergence of deep, powerful emotions about the nature of man, the security of property, and the preservation of privilege … Englishmen who celebrated the genius of the Anglo-Saxon race tended to see themselves as modern Athenians, endowed with Grecian noses and facial angles… these men thought that the common Catholic Irishman was the antithesis of all these desirable qualities: Paddy was a wild, melancholic, indolent, unstable and prognathous Caliban … After the outbreak of Fenian violence in the mid-1860s, Paddy descended further to find himself a niche somewhere between the “white Negro” and the anthropoid apes. [pp. 103, 105, 107, cited in Vincent J. Cheng, Joyce, Race, and Empire]
‘The British Lion and the Irish Monkey’ — caption: ‘Monkey (Mr. [John] Mitchell): “One of us MUST be ‘Put Down.’”’ (Punch, March 8, 1848)
‘A Great Time For Ireland!’ — caption : ‘Mr. G-O’rilla, the Young Ireland Party, exulting over the insult to the British flag. Shouldn’t he be extinguished at once?’ (Punch, Dec. 14, 1861) [More about The Nation Irish newspaper]
‘The Irish Frankenstein’ — caption: ‘“The baneful and blood-stained Monster *** yet was it not my Master to the very extent that it was my Creature? *** Had I not breathed into it my own spirit?” *** (Extract from the Works of C[harles] S[tewart] P[A]RN[E]LL, M.P.)’ (Punch, May 20, 1882) [see more on advocate of Irish Home Rule, Charles Parnell; and the Phoenix Park Murders of the new Irish Secretary and Undersecretary in Dublin, 1882]
‘Two Forces’ — image: Britannia, wielding the sword of ‘THE LAW’, protecting the figure of Hiberno (Ireland) from the ape-like man of ‘Anarchy’ (by John Tenniel, Punch, Oct. 29, 1881) — text, previous page: ‘Oh Erin, much maddened, take heart, face the light! ‘There is safety, not scathe, in the straight-levelled steel. ’If our voice is of Force, ‘tis Force of the Right, ‘Not to crush, not to wound, but to guard and to heal.’ [pp193]
Scientific racism: the types of the ‘Irish Iberian’, ‘Anglo-Teutonic’, and ‘Negro’ — text excerpt: ‘They [the supposed African Iberian tribe] came to Ireland and mixed with the natives of the South and West, who themselves are supposed to have been of low type and descendants of savages of the Stone Age, who, in consequence of isolation from the rest of the world, had never been out-competed in the healthy struggle of life, and thus made way, according to the laws of nature, for superior races.’ (Thomas Nast cartoon, Harper’s Weekly US, after 1857/possibly 1899)
'The King of A-Shantee’ — (by Frederick B. Opper, Puck, Feb. 15, 1882) — ‘The “Ashantee” were a well known African tribe; “shanty” was the Irish word for a shack or poor man’s house. The cartoon mocks Irish poverty, caricatures irish people as ape like and primitive, and suggests they are little different from Africans, who the cartoonists seems to see the same way. This cartoon irishman has, again, the outhrust mouth, sloping forehead, and flat wide nose of the standard Irish caricature.’ -Michael O’Malley, George Mason University
'Killing The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg’ — image of the Catholic Church and the Irish-American thug carving up the Democratic Party goose, followed by the fable from Aesop. — (Harper’s Weekly, Nov. 18, 1871)
the racism/orientalism/antisemitism/homophobia/general “fear of the other” in dracula is such an integral part of the text and i feel like you are missing so much of what dracula is about if you are not picking up on those overtones. i love dracula a lot but i don’t think there is any use in ignoring those aspects of it or pretending they don’t exist - in fact, i think that would show a very shallow understanding of the text. i don’t have any resentment towards ppl who are reading dracula daily and making silly little joke posts about their friend jonathan harker, i love to make those jokes as well, but i do hope that the experience of reading this novel helps some people understand the sheer xenophobia and bigotry that is at the heart of this novel and lots of other iconic horror fiction. i’ve learned not to underestimate the obliviousness of white gentiles but i hope people realize it is not random that count dracula has nebulous eastern ancestry and his plan is to take over england like i hope that does not go over your guys heads.
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