Meow Meow Motherfukers

Black women: you know it would be great if we had more fantasy and adventure stories with black girls as a princess and main character

White women: Oh shit I have idea please stop me if I say something wrong uwu

Black women: well um….we sorta already-

White women: Okay so like what about this African princess who’s super pretty and a secret badass but still a princess……

Black women: huh, doesnt sound too bad!

White women: Yeah! And her parents get kidnapped by American slavers and sent to America to be slaves and now she has to leave home and rescue them

Black women: …..

White women: oh but like since she’s black she’ll of course have to dress as a slave, play the part perfectly, and ride on a slave ship to get there. But when she gets her parents back they’re way too old and weak thanks to slavery and vamt rule so she’s automatically a Queen now cause fuck princesses am I right sistas?

Black women: That is a horrible idea and the opposite of what we want

spiking a tree has a small chance to cause an infection in the tree. but cutting a tree down has a Huge chance of killing the tree, and they cut down a lot of trees

this has also never harmed workers. iirc, there was one example of a logger getting hit with a chainsaw chain, but it was disputed as to whether or not the tree had been spiked. in reality, it only harms their equipment, making it very expensive to cut down any of the trees in the area, just in case

many of us believe these things, because the logging industry dumped tons of money into propaganda to stop us from protesting their actions, either by convincing us that what they’re doing is good, or by convincing us that what we’re doing is worse

so remember, do your own research, punch nazis, and buy recycled paper

first all all, tree spiking has not actually successfully stopped trees from being logged. in almost every case, the spikes are removed, the trees are cut down, and consumer costs are raised to pay for the price of removing the spikes. any spikes missed will go through the logging mill, breaking the equipment and harming the low-level workers. the prior claim that no worker has been injured by tree spikes is frankly incorrect, as i can recall at least two different articles we read in class where workers were injured (george alexander (1987) is one, from the article “the secret history of tree spiking” bari)

in the few instances when tree spiking was used and the trees were not cut down, other forms of activism (usually protest or getting legislation signed to protect the specific forest/area) were also in place. essentially, tree spiking alone has never prevented trees from being logged, while it has harmed loggers who work in some of the most dangerous positions and do not have many other options for work around them- while also not harming the companies responsible for the environmental damages. tree spiking has also harmed the environmental movement by the surplus of bad representation to the movement that came out of tree spiking. many activist had to spend a lot of their time and efforts on distancing themselves from tree spikes instead of on their actual goals. tree spikes were even seen as terroist to some.

i am not against radical (or even illegal) environmental actions, but tree spiking as one of those actions is simply ineffective. please feel free to do your own research on this, but remember to look at all sides of an issue. when tree spiking was first proposed and used, i do not think it in inself was a bad action, but the fact that it’s been proven to be ineffective to the movement justifies criticism, and i’m highly skeptical that it would be effective if it were to be used again.