Who Even Knows

[text id: Open the door. // Love was on the other side and it was terrifying. // Open the door. end id]

listen I know anti-native racism is not specifically talked about a whole lot and also is deeply ingrained in American culture in a way that makes it difficult for a lot of people to recognize. And like I’m not going to tell someone they’re irredeemable scum for reposting the two wolves inside you meme or dressing up as a cowboy or not being super thoroughly educated on the history of thanksgiving. But at the end of the day the normalization and lack of education around Indigenous history and anti-native racism does not absolve you from your responsibility to learn about these things and to correct your behaviour. It should not be the responsibility of natives to coddle you just because your government didn’t spoon-feed you the history of it’s own worst crimes. You gotta do the work.

you've heard of death of the author, now get ready for death of the audience: where instead of basing your reaction on a thousand uninformed opinions online, you actually read the text and engage with it

do you think about vampires. have you thought about vampires. will you think about vampires. when will you think about vampires

anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

Dem collapse among Arab voters is precisely what the party has incessantly made clear it deserves this year

People are whining about this post but Arab and Muslim voters were repeatedly, cruelly, and unceasingly told to pound sand all year, from the shutout of Uncommitted at the convention to sending Ritchie Torres and Bill Clinton to Michigan to condescend to Muslims, to a complete refusal to break with Biden admin policy even a little bit about Palestine. You reap what you sow, and boy howdy did the Democrats sow this.