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Let me put this in terms you can fucking understand. your cousin, who will be at the "IRL meet-up event" this thanksgiving, has changed quite a bit and is "lowkirkenuinely" now a "pinkpilled" "foidmaxxer" and i'm asking you not to give her "spiked cortisol levels" about it

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».

Reblog cause FACTS

I put a belt buckle on the floor next to my bed, that way I can step on it and hurt my foot when I forget it’s there.

Very smart, good idea

huge shoutout to trees and also rain

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