.@mehdirhasan: Hasan Piker said America … [is] “worse than al-Qaeda” … so why is Piker the one facing a cancellation campaign?
Hmm… Idk, Mehdi, maybe it’s because Americans like America and dislike global terror organizations that target civilians for death.
this applies equally to nationality, religion, class, etc. but for some reason we all have to pretend race is the one super special thing that’s above everything else and no one acknowledges that this sentiment is coming exclusively from americans, the most privileged ppl alive
real institutional power is found in government, business, family, religion, community, economy, etc etc etc, and this is the way every person on earth uses the word power, except those saying “black people have no power.” to whom i must assume power = being nonblack
black people are fathers and mothers. are community and religious leaders. are business owners and managers. are leaders in government and economic affairs. just the same as whites are & nonblack poc are
Black people have virtually no power to institutionalize homophobia, white people do. This includes white queers, who have often weaponized their whiteness at the disservice of the broader queer community and other marginalized groups.
and humanity isn’t “how human you are” it’s a measurement of your psyche / empathy etc. that’s why David has such a high aptitude for cyberware to begin with. and it’s why Smasher can be fully borged out (he had no empathy to lose & his psyche is unbothered by the chrome)
prosthetics specifically do not lower humanity. neither do other medical augmentations that are meant to restore function.
the only things that drain humanity are cybernetics which allow new functions or take you beyond human limits, like David’s sandy or Maine’s… everything
sorry but I don't really care about the lore reasons, the idea you can go crazy from having too many cybernetics or that having a prosthetic makes you """"less human"""" is ridiculous
“racism is the cause of misogyny & queer-phobia” and they pretend to have an academic view instead of a self-serving mythology on the ontology of bigotry
What makes this so funny to me... is that if you simply admit racism has a unique history of cruelty that has never been repeated at such a scale... we can talk about how that racism flooded over to oppressing queer ppl and women. But you won't bc ud have to admit you're wrong
quotes like these are dumb because no amount of skin bleaching will hide my Black features. i’m not against surgery, but trans people can pass without hormones or surgery. look at Thai ladyboys who pass as women without either. if you can’t, that’s a skill issue.
anti-blackness is not “the exact same thing” as queer-phobia, but it need not be, unless you think anti-blackness is the defining characteristic of all oppression everywhere (which is a very silly thing to believe)
it’s so unserious. suggesting detransition surgery that just magically removes all your trans features (doesn’t exist) isn’t transphobic, somehow. but suggesting trans-racial surgery that just magically removes all your black features (doesn’t exist) is antiblack.
all of this bc some people think black americans have a special ownership over what it means to be oppressed and can play goalkeepers over whether anyone else on the planet counts as oppressed.
The USSR fell because of America starting the Cold War, forcing them to over fund their military instead of nessessary social programs. Eastern Europe fell because of spying, subterfuge, and sabotage. Every other country was either couped or attacked by America
Everyone is "Free Palestine" until you talk about actually freeing Palestine and then they start crying about how deporting colonizers is ethnic cleansing
No one is saying this. The point being made is that Black people cannot hide or conceal the fact that they are Black. You CAN hide the fact that you’re queer.
because they’re not israeli’s, they don’t live in israel, and they do not have israeli citizenship.
that’s not apartheid, unless you think every nation on earth is apartheid because they don’t let noncitizens and foreign nationals vote lmfao
like yes thank you my “choices” are transitioning or suicide and yes i have a preference and no im not going to pretend i can just “stop being a tranny” just like we all know you can’t just “stop being black”
everyone agrees it would be racist to say “black people have a CHOICE to go outside while black”
but apparently some people don’t think it’s transphobic to say “trans people have a CHOICE to go outside while trans” and idk that’s pretty strange to me 🤷♀️
very telling that u refuse to understand that transitioning is a CHOICE that you again have the right to make once you've weighted the pros and cons there is no choice for black people were simply black and have to deal with whatever racism that comes with it