this is xenophobia

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This is xenophobia.

I'm also leaving this here. For everyone in general. Please listen to your body in this heat, and please pay attention to the people around you if you can.

Additional advice from reblog:

"Tip from me: never place ice directly on skin or inside of the person. You don't want to give them ice burns. You can put it on a towel and on the person. But honestly, normal water on their body is going to be safer. You can soak their clothes or add wet towels to them. Re soak the towels when they start to warm up.

If they are fully awake, you can give them water. If they are not, they might choke.

Don't drag an unconscious person into the slippery shower. Don't pour water on the head of an unconscious person. Add a wet towel to their forehead- and don't block the nose or mouth.

The people from the “Save Our Children” campaign in Florida in the seventies were activists. They were deeply homophobic and wanted to remove a human rights ordinance that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation. But they protested, ran media campaigns, and lobbied to try and have the ordinance removed. All of those actions made them activists.

Not tagging the blog itself, but they are against all white people. Europeans, Canadians, etc.

they do this too the point of:

-calling Canadians “Kkkanadians” (I’m Canadian myself so this hurt more) because… the land was colonized by both the French and British and is a part of the commonwealth and therefore as bad as colonizers…

-saying it’s directly the European’s fault that climate change exists, when (correct me if I’m wrong please!) the USA and China do more damage than the UK

-more recently, they called British people “weak” for being affected by the heatwave.

I misread the tone of the post I think??

That's because we do not know them in real life. Which doesn't mean them being xenophobic online is any worse or better because for most of us that is the only way we know them and it can harm people. The reason that post is so long is because I wanted to explain why there is nuance in the real world, because as anyone should know, people lie about themselves and their views on the internet and are more inclined to be more aggressive, etc.

@ari-anachronism is just gone. The person that ran the @thisisantisemitism and @comprehensive-sex-ed accounts is just gone. I think Tumblr banned their account.

I’m sending this here because maybe someone knows them that might see this and knows what might’ve happened. This is just messed up.

Odd. Thank you for sending this.

Edit:

I never said they were awesome. I said their online persona was a xenophobe, and them IRL is up to nuance and how we don't know who they honestly are.

I wasn't aware they called all Jews pedophiles if that is true, as at the time I didn't have time to go through one person's entire blog. If anyone can show me the post I will correct things, but again.

Their arguments are through generalization as I said, which I disagree with.

I never said they are "awesome". I don't like the way they argue. I don't like how they label people just for the sake of arguing, that can be seen as childish, and I think it can be, and the way they do it definitely feels childish.

I am not a neo-nazi.

And the topic of the Holodomor being intentional is a political argument. Whether it was man-made and xenophobia in nature isn't really much of one. Most historians and the government of Ukraine consider it to be an intentional genocide. But again, the Soviet Union was a mess with how they rapidly tried to promote change in the industrial and agricultural world, which led to massive consequences which the Holodomor could also be.

TL;DR (I'm not a big fan of how I wrote this): Feel free to always disagree with things I say on this blog. I don't mind at all. I use the label activist or advocate for americansarentpeople because even a violent advocate is a advocate, whether you agree with the way they argue or what they argue about, etc. I don't personally agree with it, but it doesn't change things.

I didn't intend to defend them at all? I still stated their online persona is xenophobic, and I do not like how they go about their politics.

Diagnosing people as sadistic for being entertained by argument also is not something you shouls be doing.

What you're stating here is your opinion on a person based on politics and words on the internet. Which has nuance.

I label them as an activist because even a "sadistic asshole who has blatantly admitted to getting entertainment out of this crap on the way to work" can be an advocate. Their arguments are, at least from what I've seen, are against TERF's, against White Privilege, and are against the American Government.

Yes, the way they go about it, as I said, is through generalizations and hostility, but it's politics. They can enjoy having arguments against people they see as wrong like any other person on the face of the Earth.

I never said I endorse the way they speak. Though also, from the posts I saw, they never directly attack people unless provoked. Correct me if that's wrong of course, but all I read was them arguing. Even in the case where there was insults and labels thrown around that may not actually belong to the person, they're arguing.

Fixed.

Directing back to said post:

TL;DR: at face value, americansarentpeople is xenophobic. However, we do not know americansarentpeople and how they act in day to day life. They're a political activist, and there's good and bad parts to the way they advocate. It's a matter of opinion. Their online persona is xenophobic, but we don't know anything about their real person.

This post uses they/them for americansarentpeople as I couldn't find their pronouns anywhere on their page. If there is a post that says otherwise, I will edit this post.

While they are an activist, generalization of all Americans can negatively effect some people they are trying to advocate for. Key word is some. They make valid points, but again. Generalization is harmful no matter the message.

Even if their blog is protected under parody in their words, activism that relies on broad generalizations is often counterproductive, simplifies complex issues, obscure the point or obscure what the legitimate steps towards change could be, and more.

At face value, yes. americansarentpeople is xenophobic. There isn't much nuance on that.

Then again, it is the internet. And americansarentpeople is an activist. They're harsh and general with their words because their opinion and others that will lead to change, even if in my opinion and many professionals opinions it can be counterproductive. (I'm sourcing this from 10 ways activism makes things worse | by Andy Hix)

americansarentpeople maybe be American themselves, and could know "good" Americans in their real life, and that wouldn't show up in their activism because of course it wouldn't. With politics, being honest about your personal life can lead to an argument like the final example:

"Americans are bad, and they need to fight more for change."

"Uh, well, you said you're friends with so-and-so, who IS American, so actually you don't think any American is bad cause you put up with one after saying all are bad"

Which is childish, but is what could happen.

Their activism isn't something I favor due to the generalization, that's a matter of opinion. We don't know them personally, we just know them through their politics, which honestly isn't a foolproof way to judge them. And I don't doubt that they know its not all Americans, but again. It's a form of activism we see often where generalization for the sake of arguments is used for a plethora of reasons. It can be used as a form of "clarity" in argument to show more confidence instead of what could be seen as a lesser argument to some by bringing up that "yes, it's not all Americans but it's some" can give it's own week points in argument.

The ignorance could be xenophobia, but ignorance, though terrible, doesn't mean a person has xenophobic intent as they simply just could have never been taught about things (EX. I was not taught about the Holodomor in school, nor any of my peers, which doesn't automatically make us xenophobic, though it could mean that someone who chose for us not to learn about it could be xenophobic for restricting information.)