Blitz Gamer

🥛c ,ō))_🗓)_ Alright, what day is it?

🗓c ○`)__)__\__ JUNE 2ND?!

CC °)____\ HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!!!!

cc ň")___\ I'm terribly sorry I'm late by a day..

cc .")___\ it kind of just slipped my mind......

cc ^")___\ But, anyway! I hope that you all have a good time this month!

cc • )___\ Always remember that you can express yourself however feels most comfortable, and you can love anyone you want, or nobody at all!

cc - )___\ legally, of course.. don't be a creep or make other's feel uncomfortable/unsafe..

cc •)___\ The only reason I clarify is because I don't want what I am saying being used as

ccó )___\ "but you said I can love anyone I want!"

cc ō )___\ If you are both consenting to it, it isn't with someone who is still a child while you yourself aren't one (if you're both about a year or 2 apart, like if you're in school, it should be okay for the most part), and you are listening to each other, then it's fine.

cc •)___\ Whether you are questioning, still in the closet, or have already come out, I hope you all stay safe.

cc >.)___\ With the way the world is right now, the last thing I want is for any of you to be in trouble..

cc • )___\ I strongly suggest that, if anyone knows some helpful resources for LGBTQ+ members, that you try to share them so more people can try to get help with whatever it is they need.

cc ò )___\ I know it's scary, but stay strong, stay together, form communities and friendships. No one should feel alone, especially not now. Look out for one another.

cc ò)___\ And I'm sorry this is a bit somber, but like I had said, I want people to be safe. Sometimes you just need to be a little more serious to make sure nothing bad happens..

🥛c •))___)_ I love all of you.

-Snom

Later during my 6-month employee review, the same supervisor said, "sometimes when you correct people, you can come on a little too strong and intimidate or offend people."

We went over the specific instances he was referring to, and I said, "I don't think I was unfair or too harsh in any of those situations. I think I was just straightforward for clarity."

He said, "maybe you don't realize your tone is too harsh because you're Autistic?"

So there it is.

If someone's very obviously singling you out to be outright cruel and unfair, you must give them the benefit of the doubt, because you're Autistic and cannot understand.

If you're being straightforward and normal, but someone thinks you're being unfair, you do not get the benefit of the doubt, because you're Autistic and cannot understand.

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.