“The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you…”
im not american but i think aapi month should focus on dismantling antiblackness colourism and classism in asian communities like actually make an effort to EDUCATE yourselves and end this obsession w proximity to whiteness and pick-me-ism for white approval
Trump’s White House keeps rolling out these videos where they are comparing the atrocities of war to casual things like video games, baseball, and now bowling. This is intentional and their propaganda strategy. The goal is to desensitize the public to the horrors of war. They want you to think it’s “normal” that they’re bombing another country to death. There is nothing normal or ok about bombing elementary schools and mass murdering civilian populations. Our government IS the terrorist.
In this brief, devastating exchange between a white mother and her son, we see the precise moment when the pedagogy of whiteness meets a child who has not yet learned to lie on its behalf. The boy begins in clarity: “The white killed him… He was a good man.” He grasps that the violence that murdered a Black man is not random but racial, that there were “a black and a white and they had different schools,” and that the division is not morally neutral but enforced by “the white.” His response is not confusion but moral alignment: if he sees “the white” again, he wants “payback on them,” which is to say, he understands that the proper object of his anger is the structure that kills good Black men, not the Black man who is killed. For an instant, whiteness appears to him not as an identity to be cherished, but as an enemy to be named.
The mother’s interventions are a nearly perfect transcript of how white supremacy repairs this kind of rupture. She calls him back to racial identification—“you’re mostly white”—and then immediately individualizes and sanitizes the structure he has rightly condemned: “it wasn’t just the white,” “not nice white people killed him.” Faced with this summons, the boy draws a line that *race traitor* must draw: “I didn’t kill him… I’m not the white person who did it… I’m going to get to the other people… I wasn’t born then.” In that refusal, he separates his emerging self from the historical project of whiteness and aligns, however inchoately, with those whom whiteness targets. This is the kind of critical break that figures like John Brown and Benjamin Lay represent in mature, fully conscious form: a rejection of whiteness as a political identity and a decision to cast one’s lot with its victims rather than its beneficiaries.
Yes racist are taking advantage of this situation.
Yes, he should (and to my knowledge did) personally apologize to Delroy & Michael not for his existence, but for the misunderstanding & ruining their moment.
Yes, slurs are offensive whether intentional or not.
No, I don’t think a slur being yelled involuntary is the same as somebody consciously making an effort to be racist. Can a person with Tourette’s be racist yes, but I wouldn’t use this particular instance to make that determination.
Are y’all actively spreading misinformation about Tourette’s? Yes. There are black ppl with Tourette’s specifically coprolalia. Black ppl’s actions are already seen as aggressive and constantly over policed. This made up idea that “they pick their tics” “they can control it” and “it’s okay to beat them up over their tics Tourette’s or not” put the same black ppl you’re trying to protect from racial slurs in danger
Multiple things can be true at once.
I hate how this style of personality is now gonna be synonymous with ‘’corny white gen z women’’ when a lot of this language that she‘s using is AAVE and ballroom slang all thrown into the blender
Homelessness should make you uncomfortable, not because someone you don’t know is making you uncomfortable on a train for 20 minutes, but because we exist in a society that is so willing to let people suffer without any support system day after day until they die.
it's because they understand homelessness as a weapon of the capitalist class & are savvy enough to recognize that the moment you start framing the homeless as disturbances and pests you are giving your buy-in to dispose of them. i'm sorry you haven't gotten there yet