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WHY, specifically, is it black peoples' facial expressions that are seen as just so comical or exaggerated? analyze the history of this nation's comedy and tell me why you might be predisposed to thinking of black peoples' faces as just, "more emotive" or exaggeratedly funny than a white or nonblack person's

and throughout those years, 00s-10s, many black bloggers -- victims of the mass staff-led purge (under the cover of them being 'russian' while reichblr still exists) -- they DID tell us it was a problem, DID try to educate people who freak out at the insinuation of 'being racist,' DID argue, DID point out the duplicity and the appropriation and the gross equivalence of african american slang with unintelligence, goofiness, etc. and they were ignored, abused, cancelled, chased off, until being eventually mass deleted by our racist transmisogynistic staff.

we didn't do enough, and the generation after us gen z "kids" didn't stop the trend. using the '-ahh' suffix. rizz. no cap. ate. delulu. it's giving. it's serving. crash out. lock in. aura. tea. main character. bruh. slay. real. keep it 100.

all of the following images are or were popular reaction images! what do they all have in common?

People commonly defend this practise with "But the audience isn't meant to understand!" or "It's inconsequential!", neither of which actually address a) their assumption that the [ideal Anglo] audience wouldn't understand, or, perhaps most crucially in the context of CCs, b) that this is a failure of accessibility. A hearing person who speaks that "foreign" language will know exactly what's being said. A deaf or HoH person – the people CCs are primarily intended for – who speaks or reads that language should therefore have the exact same opportunity to understand. It very much feels to me like an assumption that we deaf and HoH people couldn't possibly understand any language but English, so there's no point in getting those languages transcribed for us. I hope it goes without saying how profoundly audist that sentiment is.

There is also, I think, a profound misunderstanding or ignorance of Deaf culture at play. Which is to say, CCs in English-language media are written with not only the assumption that the audience will be native English speakers, but that all d/Deaf and HoH people speak English as their first language, so all other languages are as supposedly foreign to them as they are for hearing people. But sign languages are their own distinct language. BSL, ASL, ISL, AusLan, NZSL etc ≠ English (and are indeed different from one another), LIS ≠ Italian, JSL ≠ Japanese, and so on. So, if you follow the captioners' logic to its natural extreme, all non-signed dialogue is "foreign" to many d/Deaf and HoH people and should therefore be labelled [speaks foreign language] / [speaks English] / [speaks own language] / etc. – which is, obviously, a terrible idea that perfectly highlights all the biases implicit in closed captioning.

🥶We're freezing🥶

Hello, I'm Wasim from Gaza, in Al-Mawasi specifically... My family and I were displaced from Rafah after hardship, bombing, displacement, and hunger.😭😔

Now we have been away from our city and our beautiful home for 9 months. We have lost our house that my father built stone by stone and he worked 24/7 to build this house. But the occupation destroyed it, and no house remained in my beautiful city remained intact.😭💔💔

We are now living in a tent or semi-tent, which does not protect us from the cold of winter or the rain. Our lives are very difficult.😔😭

Thanks to your donations, we have been able to buy food and flour, and now I am asking you for help to buy a tent that will protect us from the cold of winter. We do not know what it means to sleep because of the extreme cold.🥶

This is our tent made of fabric and some nylon, not closed on one side. We are freezing from the cold. Help us to buy a new tent. You are our last hope.😭🥶🥶🙏

I also want to ask for help for my mother, who is the most precious thing in my life. Without her, I am nothing...

She has a back cartilage disease and is in great pain. She needs physical therapy, medicine, and vitamins, and I am unable to provide them. Help my mother receive treatment.🙏🙏😭

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We survived a bombed tent documented by Al Jazeera, only to face a slow death by sickness and heat in Gaza...

About a year ago, our tent was directly bombed while we were inside. It was completely destroyed, and all our belongings turned to ashes. My wife, my children, and I miraculously survived. This horrific bombing was documented and broadcasted in a video on **Al Jazeera**, which you can see attached to this post.

We survived the bombs, but we are still living through the aftermath. To this day, I haven't been able to rebuild a proper tent or buy basic necessities. We don't have enough mattresses or blankets, no water tank, no summer clothes for my kids, and we can't even afford cooking gas or food due to the astronomical prices and famine.

On top of this starvation, a severe **chickenpox** outbreak is now ravaging the fragile bodies of my four children (Hani, Diana, Bashar, and my infant daughter Habiba). They are crying in agony inside a suffocating tent with no electricity, no light, and no cooling fan to ease the burning itch, as we cannot afford the expensive private electricity lines in the brutal summer heat.

I appeal to your humanity, to every kind-hearted donor: please do not leave us to suffer this slow death. We urgently need your support to buy immediate medication for my sick children, a cooling fan, a lighting battery, and basic food for my family.

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21 Days of Zero Help.. Not a single donation in 3 weeks!

Dear friends, my 4 children are fighting severe chickenpox in the brutal summer heat, and I am completely helpless. For 21 days straight, we haven't received a single donation. Medications have run out, food is scarce, and we still can't afford a cooling fan or a battery light to ease their agony.

We are the family whose bombed tent was documented by **Al Jazeera**. We survived the airstrikes only to face a slow death from sickness and starvation. Please, do not let my children collapse before my eyes.

Donate and share🙏

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I am Mohammed from Gaza, 28 years old, and I live with my father and brothers. We all used to live a peaceful life together in our home. As you can see, this was our home before it was completely destroyed. It was our home, but now it is in ruins.

We worked 24/7 to rebuild our home, but now, after all these years of hard work, we have lost everything and have become homeless and displaced.

As for our work and our business, my brother and I had a university cafeteria, and we had a dream of being able to provide the best food to the students in our city.

At Al-Aqsa University, we worked together hand in hand to make this possible, and just as it was starting to happen, a war broke out and shattered all our dreams. We woke up to the nightmare of war, seeing the university destroyed. At that moment, we were desperate, helpless, and lost.

Not just our home and our workplace. But can you imagine the moment you see the last thing you owned destroyed, ruined, and shattered? So, for God's sake, you are the only ones who can help us rebuild our shattered lives. I would be very grateful for your kindness and support.

I am not writing this for attention. I am writing because my family is still trapped in a nightmare that has not ended. Every day is a struggle to find food, clean water, and the most basic necessities. Every day we wonder how we will make it through the next one. The world may have stopped talking about us, but our suffering did not stop. If you see this post, please do not pass by. Reblog, share, and support us if you can. Your kindness can help a family survive another day. We are exhausted, but we have not given up hope. ❤️

married, and I have a child that I had two months ago.

I have lost many members of my family, including my father, brother, and sister, as a result of the war on my country, Gaza.

I used to work as a cleaner at Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital, where I was injured by the bombing two weeks ago.

I can't support my family and my little child is malnourished.

I now live with my wife, mother, and son in an unlivable tent.

I can't work, I can't provide treatment for my sick mother, and I fear for my child's future. I want him to live a normal life.

I am unable to protect my child and my mother. I hope that you will help us, save us, and save my child from this war. Please help us. We cannot escape this tragedy.

After I got hurt, I can't work to provide the simplest things like food and healthy water, everything here is expensive, other than that, my baby needs care greatly, he needs formula (because he does not breastfeed from his mother naturally due to health problems in his mother)

Every day, my baby needs formula

Needs diapers

Needs winter clothes

It also needs a place to live in to settle in that is livable and has no diseases or insects

Thank you❤️

I hope you donate to us

Everyone who donates $20 will save my child and save us all. I hope you will help us.

I am a mother trying to protect my daughters, Talia and Maryam, while we struggle to survive without stability, safety, or enough food and clean water.

My biggest fear is not being able to give my children the life they deserve. Talia dreams of continuing her education, and Maryam still needs care and medicine, but I cannot do this alone anymore.

Your support is the reason we are still holding on. Even the smallest donation, share, or kind word can make a real difference for us.

Please don’t forget me and my girls during these difficult days. We are fighting every day just to meet our basic needs and keep hope alive. 🙏🏻🤍

Thank you to everyone who stands with us and helps us survive.

Hello, I'm Lama... My husband, Mohammed, is 30 years old. I want to ask for your help for my husband. Please support him and share his story so that it reaches everyone.🙏

My husband, Mohammed, has suffered from numerous health problems for 12 years, and the situation has worsened during the war due to shortages of medicine and healthy food. He urgently needs surgery and medication.😔

The costs of treatment and medication are very high; please, every donation from you will contribute to his recovery.

Please help my husband, donate to him, and share his story so he can recover and get the medicine.

Every donation, no matter how small—10, 25, 50, 100$...—will contribute to improving his health.

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PLEASE SHARE THIS FUNDRAISER AND DONATE IF YOU HAVE AT LEAST $5 TO SPARE. EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS TOWARDS SAVING LIVES!

$13,393/$50,000 USD as of May 2nd. Last donation was eight hours ago.

Please donate

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I'm here to tell you a few things. There are many haters and liars around, but I want to thank @el-shab-hussein who refuted all these false claims. However, You can follow up on this matter through this link click here

First, I'm the one who makes these crocheted pieces, and this is indeed the business card. You can see it on this page and contact me there as well. Click here

It was under our business name. But I lost the pieces and the business phone when my house was bombed.

That's why I'm here; I need your help and support. There are many hateful people here who wish us harm and genocide, but I'm striving for my dream and trying to help my family. These are some pieces of my work from before the war. I hope you can help and support us so we can continue living and alleviate our suffering.

Also, if you wish, you can follow the page on Instagram and view many more pieces of art.

Click here

while we smile and laugh with our friends, people in gaza smile and laugh with theirs. but for them, they have no clue when that laughter could end. if you could, please reblog or donate to a fundraiser or campaign from someone in need.

as well, i mentioned gaza, but it doesn't have to be a palestinian fundraiser. there are so many people on here who are currently struggling from all over the world, and they deserve help too.

if you don't know where to start, you can find vetted campaigns from blogs like @90-ghost and @vetted-gaza-funds. I also have a multitude of reblogged fundraisers if you search in my blog, and an aid post for a lot of different countries in my pinned post.

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Hello my friend

I feel disappointed, shocked, and extremely sad

Here, my children, husband, and I are in Gaza We cannot live because we do not have the necessities of life. Everything is expensive, and we do not have any source of money. There are no salaries, no jobs, and no source of income.

Bombing and destruction surround us from all sides.

Life has come to a standstill. Everything is very expensive.

A kilo of flour costs 20$, a kilo of sugar 15$,

Oil 20$, and vegetables are also very expensive. We cannot even make a salad; it costs a plate 30$.

Life has become very difficult.😭😭😭

There is no cooking fuel. We use wood, which is also very expensive.

The tent has deteriorated and is no longer habitable due to environmental factors.

Life has become very difficult.

Please help me and my children to get food.

They need to buy plastic sheeting to cover the tent because the weather is getting cold.

Every reblog helps if you cannot donate!

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here is their new campaign that is still functioning:

My name is Rana, and I am from Gaza. I am a mother of four children. Due to the war in Gaza, I lost my job, my husband also lost his job, and we lost our home and our source of income.

Now that the war has stopped, everything has been destroyed, and we are left with nothing.

My children and I are trying to survive with very limited resources. I am hoping to rebuild our home, help my husband return to work, and start our lives again.

I kindly ask for your support and donations for me and my children, so we can live with dignity and rebuild our lives and our children’s future.

To donate ✅️clickhere✅️