Yknow I don’t understand why people find it difficult to have a balance between liking celebrities and not worshipping/defending their every move, their reputation is not yours to bare that’s their responsibility and no one else
People will really work at Palantir and Lockheed Martin and try to be casual about it. They love to tell you that they worked in a department that wasn’t involved in the whole killing the world project.
if your response to people calling out your country's antiblackness is you saying "race works differently here!" but your black / darkskin population is still treated worse than your white / lightskin population, i promise you it's not all that different. 👍🏿
tl;dr- i'll forever be grateful to toni morrison for saying that racists pushing you to explain/defend your existence is a distraction tactic. bc even if i wanted to respond (which would functionally be self-harm) there's nothing i could possibly say to change their minds.
Being an African politician might be the best job ever, these people will keep praying to Jesus and not demand change from the government, while you can keep robbing them with no repercussions whatsoever and get filthy rich
Twitter user when you say the app sucks: Yeah, this app is shit
TikTok user when you say the app sucks: Yeah, this app is shit
AO3 user when you say the site sucks: So you want queer voices to be silenced?
I'm sorry but people (white american christians) calling the flooding in nepal a sign from god and/or of the end of times instead of acknowledging it's because of climate change and the US's disproportionately high carbon emissions hurting other countries is enraging me
as much as i love yasharper, yasmin deadass needs to stay away from harper because inviting your black friend to a nazi party where you’ve been running your sex trafficking gig and then proceeding to sit her next to white supremacists is beyond me..
Sometimes I just don’t understand how South Africa is a third world country and most countries in North America are first worlds. Baffles me all the time.
the current ebola outbreak in Congo is set to be the deadliest and it’s concerning how little containment there seems to be. over 2500 people have died so far too, but almost no one is talking about it 💔