Sentient FurBY

Kidnapping immigrants is legal. Helping immigrants escape is illegal.

And people are going to say that they had no idea.

“I’m not into Indian girls, but you look [other ethnicity]” you’re into Indian girls.

“Omg I love Indian food” and it’s just butter chicken or chicken tikka masala.

“Chandelier earrings” you mean my jhumkas?

“I love avatar/atla” you don’t know what the concept of an avatar even is.

“Your slums are dirty” tell that to the unusually low Covid rates in those slums.

“Indians don’t experience colourism” that is certainly an echo chamber chronically online take.

Exams during our festival season while every other religion gets their days off. Told to speak English when many of us in the diaspora already do (thanks colonialism!). Made to take English exams or considered international students on the basis of our names. Overlooked in job applications. Blamed for climate change. Blamed for lack of jobs. Blamed for crashing economy. Blamed for terrorism (more issues there). Random TSA checks. Random hate crimes. Stolen culture. Stolen property.

Uncredited for simple things everyone does nowadays. Coconut oil, miswak, mehndi, indigo, the number 0, banking cheques, chess, yoga, chakras, third eye, evil eye, turmeric, clean girl aesthetic, lost wax casting, bindis, kohl, dupattas, bangles, courtyards in houses, paisley, the very concept of rebirth and reincarnation. I could go on.

The racism towards Indians is so entrenched in every single western culture that nobody bothers to look twice when India suffers a heat wave. You all love Greece and Rome but did you know they directly benefitted from trade with the Indian subcontinent? Did you know Indians were taken as indentured labourers too? Did you know we were slaves too? And I’m speaking for South Asia as a whole here, did you know many of us are still slaves?

This is exactly what we’re talking about, by the way.

1) it is absolutely true that some Indians will be prejudiced against others based on caste and skin colour. That’s casteism and colourism, not racism.

2) this comment is really fucking racist and irrelevant to the point that @dilfsisko , myself, and so many others in the comments and reblogs have been trying to push.

“Lowkey overrun.” “Occupied.” “Hire only their friends.” “Exclude minorities.” “I’m just saying.” “They’ve learned nothing about racism.”

She was a developer on TES VI and during her time at Bethesda she worked (for free BTW) as the lead writer for the fan game Fallout: London

During the stop, Lorenzo had 3 coworkers with him in his truck who have all been taken into ICE custody.

His family described Lorenzo as a hardworking family man who didn’t deserve to be killed. All he wanted was to provide for his wife and see his sons become great people. His eldest son recognized his father by his cries and pleas when trying to identify who the victim was.

The Salgado Araujo family has set up a gofundme to help with funeral and legal costs, and to help keep their family supported since Lorenzo was the sole provider.

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whats killing us:

drugs (especially opiods), deindustrialization (we cant find fucking jobs), we have piss poor healthcare and no social safety net, overly permissive gun laws, and higher rates of chronic disease. also suicide because of the previous shit and our mental health is a shithole.

this is the bleakest fucking shit i have ever seen.

i knew my friends and i had buried too many people. one of my friends died YESTERDAY of a heart attack and he's younger than me! i have to take blood pressure medication! im 33!!!

jesus fucking christ i want to *scream*

we're fucking *dying* as they slash the system and make it even harder to survive.

fellow millenials and gen z, hold eachother close because tomorrow isnt guranteed. reach for as much joy as you can.