adding this pic because tbh Natives have a FUCK TON of racist costumes made after them. Shit like Indian Princess and headdresses and Reservation Queen. People continue to think its okay to dress up like us with their shitty fake feathers and ‘war paint’. Its not.
^People seem to forget this one
This shouldn’t have to be said every year, but here we are again. C’mon, people.
My grandparents left their home country as children when they heard the whispering of antisemitism starting in their home town. They got out and fled to America so I and future generations could be safe from persecution and mass murder. Only 2 generations ago.
And now America is becoming that country that they probably would have fled.
If you are not resisting, you are part of the problem.
And yes, I want non-Jews to reblog
Except I’m sorry but it’s not is it? A couple thousand white dudes babbling about jew conspiracies is not equal to Hitler and the holocaust no matter what. A couple thousand vs a few million? Your country isn’t fucking dumb. They FOUGHT to SAVE your kind and lost tens of thousands of men in the process. How about, fucking stop making it sound like the majority is Nazi and actually do some research. Jesus fucking christ.
Funny, since the Russians freed more prison camps than the US, including Auschwitz. The US didn’t care about the camps, they cared about fighting the ally of their declared enemy, Japan. And the US almost sided with the Nazis and had a large Nazi party in our boarders all the way up until (and even a little after) we entered the war.
Also do you know how large the Nazi party was at it’s peak? Just 7% of the German population. Smaller numbers don’t mean shit when they have people that aid and abet them by saying shit like “oh don’t worry they are too few to do harm.”
“My kind” have centuries of actual oppression running through our history, we can sense when something has changed and when it’s coming (back, again), it’s in our blood. Our grandparents and great-grandparents always told us to always have a bag packed, because they were afraid this would happen. “My kind” always know they will come for us again.
I’m reading an excerpt of “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson for school, and I came across something that I think is still so incredibly relevant. He was talking about the bigots of his time (anti-abolitionists) and how they hide under philanthropy to use as an excuse for their hate. (Sound familiar?) He also said, and this really hit me hard, “Your goodness must have some edge to it, – else it is none.”
Let me repeat,
“Your goodness must have some edge to it, – else it is none.” You cannot fight bigotry – in his case anti-abolitionists, in our case Nazis and white supremacists – without sacrificing part of your kindness. Because those people are evil, and they know they are evil, but they’re smart, too.
Just as Emerson said, “malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy,” we know that is exactly what happens today. Every “can’t we have a meaningful conversation?” about Nazis is not because people want to have a meaningful conversation. It’s a diversion tactic. They want to seem civilized, they want to seem like wanting to murder people is simply a respectable and protected belief, they want to make Nazism seem like it’s okay. They will use every trick in the book against your facts, they will twist your words, they will make you think you are the terrible person for not respecting their beliefs (because they have already convinced you nazism is simply a belief) and that can’t stand. Your goodness needs to have an edge, your goodness needs to stop once a line has been crossed.
We can’t “discuss” anymore. We have to stop and say “You are a nazi (or a nazi sympathizer), and you want to kill people because of their race and ethnicity. That is wrong. You are wrong. I will not argue with you. There is nothing to argue.”
No more “it’s just free speech.” Hate speech is not free speech. Speech that impedes the right of others is not free speech. Anyone that says anything along the lines of “it’s their right” is someone that should automatically be off the list of people you trust, and, if at all possible, out of your life entirely.
We’ve already let it get far. I’m sure some of you have seen the twitter advertisement for a game that is literally about fighting nazis that said “Make America Nazi Free Again.” and people went ballistic. It already seems normal enough for a common video game trope to be controversial like that. We can’t let it get any farther. This is how it got Hitler to power before. How people thought ‘no way that’ll happen,’ not realizing how normalized nazism got. We can’t repeat history anymore. Let’s make hating nazis normal again.
Sorry for the uncharacteristic post. I saw that quote and everything just hit me. it hit me how bad everything has gotten, how horrible it is that the advice of a man who lived centuries ago is still relevant today. Don’t get me wrong, I’m terrified, and honestly hoping this post doesn’t get horrible backlash, that I didn’t write something wrong or offensive or just didn’t even articulate my point entirely. But I think I’m also determined. I think I’m done being quiet.
Me: [opens the notes on a funny post looking for funny add ons]
The notes: On the contrary, being in a relationship with a serial killer doesn’t make you a serial killer. You haven’t murdered anyone. It doesn’t even make you a bad person because love is pure and innocent, and my point is serial killer lovers are valid uwu~ so @dildointhemicrowave leave sk lovers alone
Me, deleting Tumblr from my phone: [whispers] what the fuck
Tried to pledge for GLAAD but I’m broke lol, so instead of clicking an already determined amount, the cheapest of which being 25 bucks, I clicked ‘other’ and typed in $5 since I can’t spare much more than that. Except once I hit process donation, it took me back to the previous donation page, no acknowledgment that I just donated anything. Thought that maybe I put in some wrong info so I typed it all again and hit process donation. …took me back to the donation page. So either I can’t pledge/be a part of GLAAD unless I pay a minimum $25 or I just lost an extra five bucks that I shouldn’t have really spent anyway. Either way, fuck me I guess.
Does @staff actually listen to user feedback? Bc I distinctly remember receiving a generated response (when I even got a response at all) to any complaint or question I had about all the safe mode bs that happened a while ago. And thinking about this new non-chronological feed they’re rolling out, well, the embers of my former angry-soccer-mom-rage is just waiting to be rekindled.
Candlelight-magick 