#marginalized communities

The Star of David is one of the most important symbols in Judaism. The fact that it is on the flag of Israel does not make it fascist. The government of Israel is separate from the symbol. Labeling such a widely used symbol by a marginalized people as fascist is incredibly dangerous and seeks to conflate Jews as a whole with the Israeli government- something antizionists continually claim people shouldn't do. So why are some doing it?

High control groups slowly ease you into believing nonsensical things. They provide "reasoning" and "logic" which goes largely unchallenged within echo chambers. People in these echo chambers are prone to believing it because they start to see it as real logic instead of bigoted, twisted reasoning. Even otherwise intelligent people can fall for their prejudices as they begin to view it as a form of justice

It is a fantasy that high control group leaders go from 0 to 100 in five minutes or refuse to answer any questions- they are usually much more manipulative

"Protecting the children" has been used as a reason a thousand times over to take non-white children from their families and raise them outside of their cultural heritage, often in abusive boarding schools or abusive foster systems. And even if the context they were put in was not abusive itself, the fact remains that a lot of non-white children were removed from loving families because the culture they came from was inherently framed as "dangerous". (Meanwhile inherently abusive white Christian families can abuse their children in a Christian way, no problem.)

"Protecting the children" has been used as a reason a thousand times over to keep children of abusive privileged families with their families and keep them from people who had actually tried to help them, especially often the helpful adults are of marginalized groups. Child protection often includes putting a runaway child of a privileged family back with the abusive but privileged family.

"Protecting the children" also has been used quite often to abuse, torture, and at times kill queer children. As attempts to erase their queerness have been framed as "protecting the child" from a supposed corruption.

"Protecting the children" has also been used many, many times over to exclude disabled and mentally ill children from their peer groups, as their disabilities have been framed as an inherent danger to the peers, and their own mental wellness has been considered less important than anything else.

„I love that the film doesn't have a fatalistic ending. What recourse does the creature have but to live? in all the drudgery and sadness and rejection, what else will you do but keep walking toward the sun?“

Jacob Elordi about Guillermo del Toro’s „Frankenstein“

If you read Frankenstein's creature from the original novel as a personification or metaphor for disabled, queer and/or otherwise marginalized people - as many people writing literature analysis have done ... these days, you wouldn't want the creature to end in a deeply tragic way. Which reminds me of the horrible trope "Bury Your Gays" which has been so overused in the past and has given viewers and readers the problematic idea that there cannot be a happy queer existence. Which reminds me of the horrible trope "Bury Your Gays" (or queers) which has been so overused in the past and has given viewers and readers the problematic idea that there cannot be a happy queer existence.

But queers, disabled and/or otherwise marginalized people deserve stories which do not end with dramatic, tragic deaths of the marginalized characters.

well, that's rather disappointing.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

https://bsky.app/profile/arstechnica.com/post/3mg6a3q42322y

SURE! This is about android phones, guys! 🤳📵

I heard about this last year! Android is truly becoming Enshitificated! Google truly sucks ass!

Link: https://keepandroidopen.org/

Direct quote:

"In August 2025, Google announced that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google."

What does this mean for android users 👇

For consumers: People who bought Android devices expecting freedom to install any software, but the update would block that and let Google decide which apps are allowed.

For developers: Creators would no longer be able to share apps directly with others without Google’s approval, undermining Android’s long-standing “open platform” promise.

For governments/states: Countries risk losing digital sovereignty, because critical software decisions could depend on a private corporation that may comply with political pressures from governments around the world.

Here is another link where you can read sbout it:

https://bsky.app/profile/arstechnica.com/post/3mg6a3q42322y

When you’re part of a marginalized group: disabled, queer, POC- you’re often advised to tolerate discomfort “just this one time.”

But it’s never just one time.

Do they think they’re the first to tell me to let things slide? Keep it to myself? Grin and bear it? I would love to have this be a one time issue. Hell yeah I’d tough it out and reap the rewards, but they’re underestimating how discrimination has bled into every aspect of my life.

I was advised yesterday that if my manager was unfairly targeting me for behavior that was not only allowed, everyone else was doing it at all times, I should just not do it. “Don’t be like everyone else,” they said. But they also said that I was over-sensitive and that this bias wasn’t real. This coworker went on to joke later that she never gets in trouble and she doesn’t know why.

See how it’s not a fair request? Because the advice she was giving was not just for work, it was for my whole life. To avoid being targeted, stay still, stay quiet, stay perfectly behaved. Forever.