pinkwashing genocide

edit: didn’t think this would be controversial to say. Helleman’s mayonaise is a unilever brand. Unilever has ties to israel and even sells olive oil made from stolen olives. this is worse than just rainbow capitalism

edit 2: ooooh. this isn’t real. okay.

Not at all. I’m from Central Appalachia in Virginia.

alright. my apologies for taking such an ungracious stance. it was just hard for me to fathom:

• someone not having any neighbors growing up with Juneteenth Jubilee cookouts
• not hearing about the decades long petition to the federal government starting in the nineteen sixties to recognize Juneteenth as a holiday
• not seeing any of the Juneteenth media coverage in 2021 when there was a full on blitz to introduce people to their newest holiday celebration
• seeing a calendar event on June Nineteeth named “Juneteenth” and immediately assuming it was a typo for an intentional calendar event named “June Nineteenth” and then correcting it

all the people i’ve met who don’t think Juneteenth should be a holiday come in one of two flavors:

1. (the more common one) think Black history is irrelevant and that the holiday is a modern recent construct
2. (the more radical one) think Juneteenth should be a holiday that is only implemented by the people it represents once they are adequately represented in whatever system of government replaces the one that refuses to pay reparations

i defaulted from past experience into assuming you fit into category 1, and for that i apologize. lord knows i’ve experienced things reaching my knowledge base later than others because information that truly matters spreads slow, and the internet has not been the accelerant to information spread we often delude ourselves into thinking it is.

i grew up being told, by Asian people, that “Asian” is a slur to them, and that it unfairly lumps them all into a single category. the term they asked me to use instead is considered by most Asians today to be outdated, and a slur.

again. i take ownership of that i jumped too fast to being unkind, and that this was ultimately unconstructive. i will work harder to do better in the future

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which is why there is no One True Soup. you will learn what other soup pots have good people and good ingredients. you’ll leave your soup pot from time to time to hang out at another soup pot and maybe get ideas for your soup. the only soup pots you don’t visit are the ones surrounded by nazis. like you shouldn’t eat at Richard Dawkins or JK Rowlings’ soup pots

the key is neither the marketplace for ideas nor debate are good models for accomplishing anything productive. they do not encourage people to come to them ready to listen, but instead create an arena of professional wrestling in the format of “discussion.”

a better model is the idea that you have a big pot of soup. your soup is your idea. you invite people to add ingredients to the soup. as a group, any time someone brings a new ingredient to the soup (a new mode of promoting and participating with the idea) you have the opportunity to integrate that ingredient or to say it doesn’t go with the rest of what’s already in the soup.

your goal, with your idea soup, is to invite as many people as you can to add ingredients so that your pot of soup is as big as possible and can feed as many people as possible. that means when you reject ingredients, you have to explain clearly why those ingredients don’t belong with the rest of the soup

still. boycotts aren’t about all or nothing. they’re a long term strategy of learning to find alternatives, build up alternative ways of being to what’s presented, and redirecting power in small ways that make a difference when there’s mass engagement.

take for example. someone in this thread referred to eurovision as an unofficial pride event for people who don’t feel safe expressing that identity outside of this period. maybe this year that person goes and watches eurovision at a locally owned bar that’s playing it so fewer screens are tuned in. there maybe they just get to know some other people who are feeling a way about this. further, you can also dedicate a little bit of time looking for explicit queer representation from participating countries on Bandcamp to talk to others about. these decisions, even if they’re not coming from someone who is disengaging from eurovision entirely, are still acts of boycott

bigots often misidentify themselves as the victims of hate campaigns because they really do believe the lies that are embedded in dogwhistles. like… there’s a lot of ICE supporters who don’t have the awareness that when the current US admin calls someone “a criminal” they mean “as a classification of person” not as “person who does crimes” or when they use “Low IQ” they mean “minority”

like… there’s a ton of people out there who actually think “Michele Obama is a low IQ person” is about Michele Obama specifically instead of the result of calling all Black people “low IQ”

so in the case of Orson Scott Card, what’s happening is when he says “be more patient and analyze your misconceptions about people” he doesn’t mean marginalized people, he means about himself, a person with a dominant identity in culture whose been gently asked to make room for other people feels marginalized by that request

“harlot” comes from the pantomime stock character Harlot. clowns have traditionally been from the same stratus of society as whores, and have often been engaged in sex work on the side maintaining their show persona (the clown), their bar persona (the whore), and their own real day to day identity that is kept separate from the others to keep people from asking too many questions.

i’m sure at somepoint a madame has been asked by a patron if he can actually talk to Tickles, not Lucinda

yup! don’t panic buy anything over MSRP. just wait for the next round

1. there were absolutely scalpers spamming F5
2. yes, supplies were very limited

nothing toad can happen, only frog can happen

“Akanatun… who’s got all the bronze gladiuses? let’s say you pay us our share of your stolen grain and we won’t overthrow you.”

that’s on purpose! Douglass Adams was primarily motivated to write them by how offensive he found Apartheid South Africa to his existence as a human

that’s on purpose! Douglass Adams was primarily motivated to write them by how offensive he found Apartheid South Africa to his existence as a human

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sorry. i hit you with a two parter. yes. the fur right exists. yes. we call them the fur right.

but also yes. there are furry fascists who show up at conventions and try to promote their ideologies in what are otherwise queer friendly leftist spaces. they’re a lot like ultra conservative gay men in that they think their identity and their politics can be divorced and they really wish we could all get away from identity politics… all while practicing politics that place everyone into identity hierarchies and demanding conformity to their cultural ideals.

it’s like “the only ethical abortion is my abortion” but it’s “the only acceptable kink is the one i do”

referencing an ushanka there. ushankas with hammers and sickles are particularly popular with red fascists where i’m at

“we don’t like fascists. we don’t care if your fascist hat is red, brown, black, or furry” basically