crumplelush:

uncommon-etc:

As a Scottish person living in England I feel this on a personal level, when people say shit like “well it’s not the genuine asylum seekers I’m bothered by, it’s the people who just move here to get a better job and take advantage of our welfare system” and I’m like “Mate, I literally moved 500 miles south to a different country just to get a better job and better weather, if you’re going to hate on anyone for that hate on me.” 

Then they try to back-track and say things like “Well you already speak perfect English so it’s fine” and I’m like “My grandma didn’t speak very good English when my grandparents settled in the UK from Finland, what are you trying to say?” 

And they’re like “Well I’m sure you’re grandparents had useful jobs and weren’t just sponging off the system.” like… nah, my grandma mended clothes and my grandad sold garden sheds, they weren’t exactly brain surgeons 

“But they…” just admit it, it’s not white immigrants that bother you, I doubt Americans go on marches protesting the Canadian undergrad students who overstay their visas or all the germans and scandinavians who just rocked up in the Midwest one day and decided to call it their own.

This was how I finally started to understand white privilege. 

I remember reading about a white European of some flavour who had overstayed their visa and wanted to go home but couldn’t afford the plane ticket. They tried to turn themselves in to ICE to get deported, and were straight up told “we’re not looking for people like you”

friendlyneighborhoodwizard:

beemovieerotica:

friendlyneighborhoodwizard:

I said it in the tags of a post but honestly, I feel like I need to make my own post because while we’re doing the whole “stop supporting jkr!” thing I need everyone to remember that not only is she blatantly transphobic (and specifically transmisogynistic), but that she and her books are incredibly racist and antisemitic.

Appropriating Indigenous American cultures for her American wizard school. Making all of the bankers in her books hook-nosed goblins. Naming the ONLY East Asian character in the books “Cho Chang” and putting her in the “smart people house”. The way that she treats the Patil Twins, the only two other Asians, and the only South Asians in the series. The way that she treats ALL her characters of color. JKR’s racism has always been there. People just seem to gloss over it for some reason and to be honest, I’m getting really frustrated and tired of constantly adding that racism is a problem in the notes of these posts. And this is literally just based on Harry Potter! The rest of her stuff surely has even more problems!

I don’t want to downplay her transphobia. That’s a huge issue that, I, especially as a trans person, cannot emphasize enough! But as a person of color, I feel like I need to remind y'all that it’s just the tip of the iceberg.

I think OP of this post I rbed about JKR’s racism specifically against Indigenous Americans put it perfectly. This has made it painfully obvious that people are white before they are queer.

It’s not that hard just to acknowledge her racism alongside her transphobia. If you’re making a post about her remember that she’s shitty in so many other ways, and she’s always been shitty.

I know this is long but I’m rambling, so…

tl;dr JKR is racist as well as transphobic. Just acknowledge that in your pleas for people to stop supporting her. Please. It’s literally so easy. anyways jkr’s a piece of shit and I hope she burns in hell!!

- sincerely, a trans poc who’s tired of this shit

I did a deep dive into her non-white wizarding schools for a presentation I did and oh boy

-the japanese school is in iwo jima (wow), they have color-coded robes like karate belts, the name of the school is grammatically incorrect with her “canon” pronunciation butchering the words

-the african school is in Uganda but it’s named after the capital of Burkina Faso and on her maps it’s located in the Congo and when you’re invited to the school, you get a rock sent to you

-african wizards dont have wands they just point at things and all of them can naturally turn into animals (YIKES)

-the brazilian school is hidden in the amazon rainforest and disguised as “a ruined stone temple” despite the fact that no masonry historically occurred in the rainforest, making a stone temple an absolutely obtrusive and terrible disguise

jk rowling is literally so fucking dumb and racist she can’t be bothered with anything that doesn’t have to do with white people

Holy shit I didn’t even know about any of this. That is absurdly racist.

iveofficiallygonemad:

tiktoks-for-tired-tots:

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Women being shamed for having body hair is a wild ass concept. We can’t even say its a Personal Preference at this point. It is a Certain expectation that women be smooth in the arm, bare in the leg, and bald in the coochie. To the point where we are Shamed if we are not. And then when we show signs of hair removal, like the dark pubic area, razor bump, ingrown hairs, we’re shamed for that too. And I know that there will be women in my comments saying that I’m Wrong because body hair is “unhygienic” but if hair removal products disappeared tomorrow then I’m sure y’all would figure out how to wash your ass just as effectively. And why is hair only dirty for women? No one bats an eye when men have bundles and a closure under their arms. And I know women have different reasons for hair removal—this is not a debate about whether it’s right or wrong. But the expectation that we remove our hair is largely based on sexist, predatory, and even racist ideology. I’m just sayin’.

rosyish:

rosyish:

rosyish:

White allies and white leftists and liberals need to read this.

In regards to posts about racism or intersectionality with race involved you MUST listen. Not respond. LISTEN

What I have seen so many white “allies” do is add onto posts (my own included) to put their own thoughts and opinions. In some cases take the words of the original poster and try to “translate” what is being said to other white people.

You are ACTIVELY taking away the voices of poc and speaking over them when you do this. When you tack on your own personal anecdotes or try to to give a definition of what a person or color is saying you are in the simplest of ways insulting their intelligence

I have multiple posts on this site talking about racism and there is ALWAYS a white person ready to reblog it with their own commentary. You are NOT helping. And you are being micro aggressive

Your job as an ally is to uplift our voices. Not add your own.

Please sit down with yourself and ask yourself why you feel the need to insert yourself into a conversation that does not need your opinion. No matter if you agree or not.

Please save your thoughts and opinions for the tags. This isn’t a blackboard discussion class

This won’t get as many notes as my other posts and I know this but I still must say it because it’s so very aggravating and honestly very rude

givemearmstopraywith:

in 2018, a seventeen year old black girl from kenosha, wisconsin named chrystul kizer was charged with first degree murder after killing the man who trafficked and raped her. he had previously been arrested in connection to the abuse of a dozen underage black girls but allowed to walk without bail. this is the same justice system that freed kyle rittenhouse

here is chrystul’s gofundme to raise money for her defence. 

here is a change.org petition asking that all charges be dropped.

tealmasc:

Thank you to everyone who helped get Julius Jones off of death row. Black people are disproportionately targeted by police and given harsher sentences. Julius is far from the only innocent person to end up on death row. We must pay attention to all death sentences in order to save lives.

The Marshall Project watches death row:

The Next to Die

Examining executions in the United States.

The Marshall Project

Here are some individual people you can help:

• Marvin Guy
• Melissa Lucio
• Rodney Reed

If anyone knows of anyone else who needs help put their name and a link to their petition in a reblog!

butchniqabi:

saying white people are just colonizers by nature, cruel by nature, and racist by nature is not only very uh sketchy in the whole ~biology~ department but also absolves all white people of their racism. “oh they cant help it” is not only not true its counterproductive to ending racism as a whole! plus when we say something like “white people are biologically programmed to be colonizers” we’re also moving into a dangerous territory of “people of color are biologically programmed to be colonized”

horizonproblems:

systlin:

kyidyl:

terezis:

terezis:

tik tok is having a bone stealing witch scandal. i repeat. tik tok is having a bone stealing witch scandal. but this time a man is collecting human spines

the nature of humanity is that every so often someone tries to brag about “””acquiring””” human remains on the internet again

Ok so that kid isn’t a witch. He’s a guy who owns a company that SELLS human remains. I hate him and I hope his business goes under because he’s always all “my remains are ethically sourced”. No they aren’t, dipshit. There is no way to ethically source human remains unless it’s through direct donation. Even the Smithsonian has a whole bunch of unethically sourced remains, and they’re very aware of it. One of the first goddamned things I had to learn while getting a bioarchaeology masters - which this kid does NOT have - was how bone collections are built and the ethics of having them even for education. Its a huge part of working with human remains. You, random dude on the internet, have not found some magical ethical bone source that allows you to sell them large scale. Also tagging @kaijutegu bc she knows way more than I do.

Oh, and don’t @ me about medical bone collections making it ethical. Bone collections older than, like…50 years if I’m being generous and 30 if I’m not…were unethically acquired almost all of the time. Something he’d know if he wasn’t, yknow, an art student and completely uneducated beyond “wow bones are cool”.

I went to his website because I like being mad apparently, saw that he’s selling ribs from real human people to any shmuck with $18 so they can throw it in a drawer and pull it out to impress their shitty friends or whatever, and got so mad that I had to go take a walk around the parking lot.

He claims all his bones are from old medical skeletons that families who inherited from old time doctors or whatever sell him, but guess what.

Most if not all of those skeletons came from India, where people got them by stealing corpses from poor people’s graves.

Excepting of course his remains from other indigenous groups like the Sami, who had their remains stolen to try and prove that they were inferior to other ethnic groups! Because he totally had those for sale too, until he got called out and that listing mysteriously vanished from his shop.

Anyway I hope this guy gets hit by a bus.

Here’s an excellent video from an actual British/Indian doctor talking about the history and the legality of human skeleton trade

they-who-wander:

the-silent-screamer:

Nas has been spitting nothing but facts this week

These tags are important!

ctolisso:

ctolisso:

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ctolisso:

A local resident puts love hearts and slogans on the plastic that covers offensive graffiti on the vandalised mural of Manchester United striker and England player Marcus Rashford on the wall of a cafe on Copson Street, Withington on July 12, 2021 in Manchester, England. Rashford and other Black players on England’s national football team have been the target of racist abuse, largely on social media, after the team’s loss to Italy in the UEFA European Football Championship last night.

A defaced mural of Marcus Rashford is repaired by the artist Akse P19 on July 13, 2021 in Manchester, England.