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It’s looking like a TERF summer girls

The Haunting of Bly Manor. I watched this last year and i loved it, i was thinking of rewatching it. It’s marketed as horror but tbh it’s not that scary/violent. It’s incredibly sad though. If you like tragic love stories with a bit of horror then give it a try. Main love story is between two women

Y'all want so badly for there to be a logical way to change their minds, but there isn't. White capital is worth more to them than literally anything on the planet. The psychological high they get from being racist is worth more to them than even the welfare of their own children.

And other non-Black races/ethnicities love it, too. Latinos, Asians, Arabs, etc., they get the exact same high from being able to be racist to Black people. Given the chance to have white capital, the majority of Arabs and Latino men took it, against all logic. Asian men look to be heading in the same direction.

That is why class consciousness and POC-solidarity failed.

ok well i didnt know any better when i was 12 yrs old black and in texas being called the n word by all you assholes who go by she/her now…unreal

this is obviously politically motivated and barely worth commenting on, but i want to reflect on how this is another transparent move to kill black and brown people. i know how that sounds, like i’m ranting in the subway, but bear with me and hear me out.

from my personal experience: let’s concede the point and agree that black and brown applicants do less well on standardized admissions testing (due to structural issues like the schools in black and brown neighborhoods being of a poor quality). i personally would still rather have a family medicine/obgyn/GP of any kind doctor who has an empathetic bedside manner but maybe did less well in standardized admissions tests or other metrics asians and whites score well on. obviously for a surgeon i don’t care about their personality as long as they’re the most competent technically, but most physicians are not surgeons. most people will never need to see a surgeon. the job of GP physicians is to listen, and they’re not good at that when their patients are black or brown. that’s a failure of the system.

my primary care physician was a white woman, and i switched from her to a japanese women because the white woman was not great. just kind of clueless and didn’t listen to me, but not malicious. the japanese woman is a million times worse; her bedside manner is so terrible it borders on abusive. i refuse to even message her because she was so nasty and hostile during my one interaction with her. that is par for the course. almost every physician covered by my insurance is a white or asian person, and they’re almost always lacking in basic compassion. they’re dismissive and sometimes outright aggressive. i haven’t had more than a handful of positive interactions with a white or asian provider who wasn’t a nurse (shout out to nurses in general, they’re amazing). it was so bad that they thought i had high blood pressure—i don’t. i’m just afraid of these people and i get anxiety in the doctor’s office due to that. that went away when i started working with my black obgyn.

this isn’t unique to me. this is a known issue in the medical field, the way black and brown people are treated by physicians and consequently avoid them which leads to poor health outcomes. that isn’t a problem for this government because the ultimate goal of white supremacist policy is in fact for us all to die (hence all the language about “saving” the white race and “real america”—that cannot exist if we are around). they can’t just say that out loud (yet), but we saw the glee with which they took to killing hundreds of thousands to millions of people in africa due to changes in aid and vaccine policy. those people have no protection from them. soon, we might be in the same boat.

the systemic issue of racial bias in the domestic medical field is why medical schools like the one at yale actively sought out different kinds of students—because that was easier than training the people who succeeded traditionally in enrolling in medical school to be empathetic. i don’t know why it is impossible for white and asian doctors to treat black and brown people with a minimum of respect, but it apparently is. the pressure from the DOJ to exclude black and brown applicants (who, btw, mostly go on to return to their communities and serve their own people, not white or asian people) is part of a larger scheme to target anything that might help us. they want us sicker, they want us less free (repealing large portions of the voting rights act), they want us under-resourced (removing community resources like free preschool), they want us locked out of social mobility (attacking student loans and trying to remove PSLF, attacking workplace and university programs that help black and brown people with access.)

their hatred for us is unending. i don’t understand why asians choose to participate in this system, but i suppose it isn’t any different from why italians or irish or cubans chose to participate. they already feel vulnerable and this helps them assure their own place in white supremacy. all i can think of when i see asians working so hard to help white people attack and disenfranchise other nonwhite people is of my indian grandfather. he died in poverty after working a grueling job on a plantation his whole life. white people promised him a living wage and then used his body until he died prematurely. his sons, my dad and uncle, didn’t have a better life due to his sacrifice. they’re dying in poverty, too. i suppose i would be told it’s my grandfather’s fault for not being of a higher caste and therefore having access to something like medical school. maybe if he was born a different person or worked harder he’d have avoided that.