Noodle, Rice and Everything Nice

it doesn't matter which country we're talking about here, if someone from any country in the world says "oh where i am from there is simply no racism", you not only shouldn't believe them, but you should actually never take them seriously about anything ever again.

they're selling anti-ai slogans on sweatshop-produced t-shirts. i don't need to write the poem for you to get it do i

whites were put on this earth to be useless and make life harder for everyone else

Thank you! I am kinda pissed off that the news outlet leave out the gfm link but i guess that's their SOP over there

it's a cliché by now but there's only so much history you can learn before you either become a Marxist or a liar. there's a reason that so much of liberal propaganda is explaining prejudice as a mysterious personal failing, and poverty as a not so mysterious personal failing, while so much of Marxist propaganda is explaining that both these things result from systems of exploitation that we can demonstrate through research and data

I've recently had white women in professional contexts tell me that they were quote "hurt" and "gutted" by what amounted to very minor professional faux pas on my part. I remember reading a white woman academic's essay on Jane Eyre that began with recounting her emotional upset upon having Jane Eyre "taken away from her" by postcolonial / anti-racist scholarship. white women's emotions do have currency in personal and professional spaces in selective contexts, i.e. when wielded against people of colour 🤷🏽‍♀️

in a videos game the Jungle has a Temple which must be a biome specific natural structure and surely means nothing. most times it's abandonedTemple covered by Jungle Vegetation but sometimes, less so since the 90s but still around, youre gonna meet some human or at least humanoid people depicted in a cartoonishly obsolete culturally syncretic racism that surely cant be really racist, guys, theyre not pointing to a real culture plus the people of color that live around me aren't like that. those are Jungle People that live in Jungle and we all know that there's no real life people that live in Jungle

the worst part about progressive americans is that they live incredibly close to the source of some of the most interesting movements and works in anti colonial history in latin america but they just invent their own idea of anti colonialism from scratch to just mean whatever. between the monroe doctrine and big ag + mining corps you have a laboratory of imperialism on your borders and migrants from those countries regularly in your neighborhoods. like you'll brag to europeans about access to pupusas but know jackshit about el salvador fr.

without fail every technological advancement collects women and children as its first victims. it’s inevitable and cyclical and it makes me crazy like are we gonna do anything about it ever

I hate the push that you can quit addictions by pure willpower because it perpetuates the idea that people who can't have committed a moral failing of some kind. We all may know some people who did quit an addiction cold turkey, and with no aid, you may be one of them. And that's fantastic, but it is not the norm. It is more than okay to need help to quit an addiction. Relapse is also part of the process. Many people relapse several times before they are able to quit for good. Let's have compassion.