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The indian burial ground trope is weird cause it's like. Obviously the horror is white people being haunted by their own sins, right. The colonialism. Murdering these people and paving over their graves. But they literally never frame it that way they're too racist so it's still, like, subliminal white guilt under a thick layer of "what if the savage ndns come back 😨" like the scary thing here is YOU LOL

It's also frequently pretty unnecessary set dressing. What if you were in a haunted hotel cause a guy went crazy and killed his family in there ... and there were dead ndns also. Implying it's the dead ndns fault. Man white people just do that sometimes

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

The indian burial ground trope is weird cause it's like. Obviously the horror is white people being haunted by their own sins, right. The colonialism. Murdering these people and paving over their graves. But they literally never frame it that way they're too racist so it's still, like, subliminal white guilt under a thick layer of "what if the savage ndns come back 😨" like the scary thing here is YOU LOL

in a way jerking off together is kind of deconstructed sex. if you think about it

I work cybersecurity, this is like half my job.

the whole vaccine deal tbh

antidepressants

Yes these are all the work of wizards

you are white before you are trans and i feel like some of y'all forget that

this post is proof that white people hate it when you tell them they hold privilege over people of color

I feel like the fact that communist regimes tend to be repressive, paranoid basket cases is at least somewhat downstream of the fact that the Western powers are constantly trying to subvert and destroy them

directly the justification in fact

The corollary of needing to be willing to frame arguments in terms of moral precepts you don't necessarily share is needing to be aware of subtext. Yes, it's easy to get a certain stripe of hyper-conservative folks to agree with anything you please by framing it in terms of opposition to Big Government, but a large part of that is because when you say "Big Government", what they hear is "Jews". You didn't hack their brain with magic words, you just didn't realise what you were saying!

I don't remember what post exactly I said this in, but I remember I once saw someone doing this and had to tell them "sometimes you think you're tricking the racist into agreeing with you when you're actually letting the racist tick you into agreeing with him"

it's so crazy how much worse u can make things by not leaving the bed or house or eating food

parents are allowed to straight-up torture their kids with zero consequences. they can withhold food and water, lock you out of shelter, confiscate your belongings, bar you from human contact, attack and harm you and exert complete control over your physical appearance. and this is just the norm. if you speak out against it you're seen as a delinquent or a predator. even otherwise progressive people get uncomfortable with the idea of dismantling the nuclear family unit because they still see it as the best way to keep kids safe when that simply couldn't be further from the truth. it's evil.