tfw news outlets and media are way more outraged by a celebrity in a cecil the lion costume than they ever were/will be about racist halloween costumes fetishizing and sexualizing people of color and their cultures. so many celebrities have done blackface for halloween and news outlets weren’t /this/ upset. i hate everything
I’m going to buy 10 of those costumes.
fuck Cecil
I’m DEAD!! She’s dressed up as a fucking lion 😂😂😂😂 they really don’t care about human beings that aren’t white. This a true exposé
white parents who are raising or have raised a biracial or mixed race child please don’t tell your children (no matter their age!) that if they don’t like the racism that has existed and continues to exist in their country, to leave their country. that is dismissive. silencing. racist. and cruel.
Armed white Confederate flag supporters clashed with attendees of a black child’s birthday party in Douglasville, Georgia, over the weekend. A tense stand off between the two groups led to threats and racism — but very little police action.
armed white men with racist flag yelling racist threats right in front of cops…
cops: “Nothing to see here”
Black woman won’t put cigarette out (which isn’t illegal)
Go back in time to save turkeys from being a popular meal; but doesn’t go back in time to stop the white settlers from committing genocide against Native Americans.
Genocide seems like a good subject for a kids movie.
There are children who experience genocide, who’s people experience genocide, who’s people have experienced genocide. there are children who can’t not know about genocide.
there are appropriate ways to discuss genocide without scarring or harming a child. and for those who live with or live with the knowledge of genocide do they not deserve representation? who is really being protected by not discussion genocide? the oppressive group, not the oppressed.
there are children’s movies that hint at or depict genocide, in a less traumatizing way; films such as Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron, Pocahontas I & II (though vague and incorrect) and more. Disney films have depicted murder, death, loss, etc in a way that doesn’t harm most children. it is possible to discuss rough subjects with children. I am an educator, and I know that in California we start discussing genocide of indigenous peoples in fourth grade, when children are around 8 years old.
Back to this movie. Out of all the ideas and valid options there are for making movies about saving animals, they chose to have a setting that presents native americans and they chose to go with saving turkeys. this film set the stage and chose turkey over native americans.
Because its a fucking children’s cartoon, not a historical documentary. Its there for fucking entertainment.
it’s. setting. made. native americans. relevant. all peoples involved in this film made a choice. they chose to prioritize turkey over native americans.
they didn’t have to go back in time at all. similar to the movie Happy Feet, about a penguin who got media attention for dancing, which sparks public interest in preserving their (the penguins) lives. the film could have been like that. a turkey who is so cute or whatever that people start caring about their lives. it could have easily gone that way or a number of ways. they chose to have the setting be with native peoples who encounter white settlers. they set the stage. and they prioritized. white vegans often prioritize animal lives over poc.
I'm a bit confused by a recent post of yours. You were saying that white people having "pale" in their blog as a description is promoting white supremacy (I'm paraphrasing so if the meaning/context is off I apologize), I'm a bit confused by what you were talking about. Were you saying that people who run blogs with like pictures of white people and just white people and calling it a pale lover blog or something is racist - or saying that for white people to describe THEMSELVES as pale is racist?
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people who have blogs were they exclusively post photos of white people promote white supremacy. there are blogs called “pale blogs” were they post photos of “pale” things, and when they post photos of people they only post pics of white people and it promotes white supremacy.
White culture: believing that your thoughts and believes are relevant in any situation; and that you must inform other people who do not perform the way you want them to just how wrong you think they are.
Believing that your way, your culture, your language, is the right way, the only way, and that everyone else should conform or exist elsewhere.
Believing that the laws made by you and your people are the only valid laws and that they automatically apply even when you leave your home or country.
Believing that you have a right to live on the “american” continents, or the African continent, or the Australian continent, or any country or providence other than parts of Europe, just because you were born there.
It’s a problem that so many white people recognize indigenous peoples only as primitive people from the past rather than what we are: students, dancers, ball players, doctors, etc. I wonder how they would feel to constantly have their identity denied or ignored like hey if you’re white why aren’t you wearing medieval robes, living in a castle, while your maid tosses your feces out the window?
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