From the River to the Sea until Palestine is Free

Re: the last post I reblogged, when I entered the Tolkien fandom as a teenager, my understanding of racism was very much of the «personal, intentional bigotry» variety, a bill I think Tolkien didn’t fit specifically because of quotes like his retort to the Nazi publisher, and it was a process to get to a point of recognising the structural racism ingrained in the worldview, the very idea of Empire. Which is to say, this isn’t something that comes automatically to you if you’re raised in a (white, Northern European) context where people around you also don’t have any concept of racism that extends beyond «it is bad to be mean to people because of their skin colour/ethnic background» - a better starting point than outright white supremacy, of course, but not something that makes you remotely equipped to take part in any discussion of structural racism either. And in order to get to any kind of more nuanced understanding of the topic, you have to pack away the ego that says «I can figure this out for myself without listening to other people or without ever being wrong» and recognise that most likely you will have major blind spots in your analysis of the kind of structural racism of which you have never been on the receiving end. «I hadn’t considered that, but I see your point now that you explain it» is a much better response to a person of colour pointing out racism in your favourite book, than «you’re wrong because Tolkien said XYZ».

“my father is a boy and my mother is a girl so i’m mixed” is the funniest possible response to someone asking your gender and it came from 6’5 Viking footballer and notable weird little guy Erling Haaland on a Snapchat

turns out i am gay

holy shit how’d this alpaca learn how to type

Diversity win! The alpaca is gay!

he was a llama

a llama?! he’s supposed to be dead!

paper and pen seems so powerful now. on account of all the. surveillance

every time i watch some piece of media about how abused children need to put in the work to understand their poor put upon parents i think about the scene in the asoue netflix show where klaus is told his shitty boss had a terrible childhood and says "i'm having a very terrible childhood right now". like damn gottem pack it up we can stop doing this narrative in film and literature now

All these tourists having a great time at the World Cup isn't surprising b/c the first rule of America is that this place rules if you have money to blow and it's a nightmare if you don't. The prohibitively high cost of attending the World Cup filtered out all the ppl who don't have money so all the people who actually made it to the U.S. are basically guaranteed to have fun

You ain't stopping shit.

& honestly there's no debate to be had the zendaya earrings are orders of magnitude worse than kim kardashian wearing that marilyn dress. yes that piece was a one of a kind unique textile made so specifically for marilyn monroe she had to be sewn into it. at the end of the day it was a ~70 year old usamerican cultural artefact being repurposed by an american for an american cultural event and everyone involved knows exactly where the dress came from + what happened to it + where it went afterwards. zendaya is wearing the looted (or forged) cultural heritage of a people her government is currently bombing & whose lives they have been deliberately making unliveable for decades to a movie premiere that has fuck all to do with iran. we don't know where those discs came from where they were found or by whom & we never will. AND the jeweller appears to have altered them substantially from their original condition. destroying a people's cultural heritage at the same time you destroy their country + their lives so you can look good on a red carpet One Time i want to fucking hurl