someone not passing for white. Isn't that like the point, that white people cant tell and that whiteness by its nature is so not real and thus people are folded in to it, especially if they reject any other cultural signifiers of non-whiteness?
this certainly isn't my area of expertise and correct me if I'm stepping out of line but I don't think 'white people are dumb/constantly incorporating non-white features into their definition of beauty thus they can't tell this person isn't white' is a compelling argument for
When Hussein achieves his goal, I’m going to wait impatiently for him to show me all of his degrees and his first day at work as a doctor.
Hussein is made for greatness. Please help him study medicine!
Was JUST talking to my wife about how the algo has trained kids away from exploring musical history and having a contextual cultural depth of knowledge, so homogeneity sets in. And that's just, every cultural input now. Everything is just riffing off the last decade.
chinese fishing companies are decimating the west african coral reefs, killing african marine life, and using indonesian slave labor but i’m wrong for noticing
what’s even crueler is that the person in the post will very likely be shielded from much of the discrimination and violence her chinese trans sisters face on a daily basis due to the political privilege afforded by her whiteness and, as a result, become more convinced of china’s “wokeness” and further alienated from the local community & our struggles
i really hate when people don't name colorism explicitly because the violence in the bluest eye was explicitly colorist— it wasn't something all black children in the book faced and dark skinned people's pain shouldn't be universalized like this
Its also important to emphasize it was a racist colonial hate crime too because he was Indigenous.
Its part of the larger Indigenous American genocide that still goes on today despite what US history books like to imply.
Every pro-Palestine Muslim candidate in the US is going to face the same attacks that Hamawy and Mamdani faced, but we’re moving toward a country where the people no longer buy it. Americans have come to see Israel as genocidal even as the establishment defends it.
The japanese are colonizers. They understand racism and classism because they set up that system for thousands of Ryukyuans. Okinawa, Amami, Yaeyama, Sakishima, the japanese brutally raped and killed Ryukyuans. You only know Japan through anime and porn