Tag: racism

dearprongs:

so basically nagini

  • is a korean woman who has her identity surpressed at literally the same time of the rise of fascism and when koreans lost their country to imperial japan
  • ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  • suffers from a curse that is ONLY passed through women
  • had a piece of a man’s soul forced inside of her
  • has become completely submissive to this same man
  • have we all forgotten that wormtail MILKED nagini to feed voldemort jshdjahsjdaj
  • eventually gets beheaded by a teenager
  • what the hell was going on when nagini was in bathilda’s rotten body
  • so when harry saw nagini attack arthtur in OoTP because voldemort possessed her, nagini had voldemort’s consciousness, harry’s consciousness, nagini’s human consciousness, voldemort’s horcrux and her snake brain all inside her ??????
  • what kind of snakeception
  • an asian woman who eventually ends up a white man’s slave pet and kills human beings at his will (”nagini, feed.” ??)
  • nagini is a korean woman with an indian name who eventually turns into an albanian snake 🙂
  • “i’ve been keeping this for 20 years” says JKR yeah so is the tidbit that you shared about wizards relieving themselves anywhere and just vanishing the evidence

todaysdocument:

Executive Order 9066 dated February 19, 1942, in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt Authorizes the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas, 2/19/1942

File Unit: Executive Orders 9041 – 9070, 1/26/1942 – 2/24/1942. Series: Executive Orders, 1862 – 2011. Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 – 2006

Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt seventy-five years ago on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. In the next 6 months, over 100,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry–over 60,000 of them American citizens–were moved to assembly centers. They were then evacuated to and confined in isolated, fenced, and guarded relocation centers, known as internment camps.

The U.S. Government would eventually be compelled to compensate surviving internees for their treatment in 1988.

Explore more resources from @usnatarchives​ on Japanese American Internment and Executive Order 9066:

shaddy24:

Of note for everyone: the LA Times has gone full collaborator. They’re printing letters that defend the Japanese internment camps, saying that the discussion of them has been too “one sided.” Actual quote from the letter: 
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Virtually everyone in the U.S. was assigned jobs to help the war effort. The Japanese were assigned the job of staying out of the way and not causing complications.”

They then try to say that having your homes, businesses and personal belongings taken away from you and being forced to live in a camp is better than many of the jobs people were assigned. 

They’ve tried to go back on this and now have a note saying that these letters didn’t meet editorial standard, but that’s just bullshit backstepping. They’re trying to gauge how far they can go without getting called out. Next test will be a little smaller. 

How Joss Whedon’s Firefly Geekwashed the Confederacy

lierdumoa:

I wrote the following in a post earlier today:

Please understand that when you propose to re-tell Firefly “minus the racism.”

That Firefly is in and of itself Joss Whedon’s attempt to retell the story of 1) the American post-Civil War deep South “minus the racism” 2) cowboys vs. injuns reavers “minus the racism” 3) Manifest Destiny “minus the racism.”

Quite a few people didn’t seem to know what I was referring to.

Allow me to explain.

To start, here are some quick and easy results from googling “firefly confederate”:

○ Firefly, Serenity and Confederate Politics
○ What Haunts Me About Firefly

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And here are some direct quotes from the Firefly wiki [link]:

The confederacy of planets and moons that formed the Independent Faction was doomed from the start.

While leaders among the scattered outer worlds expressed concern over the formation of the Union of Allied Planets, most folk didn’t much care, figuring it wouldn’t affect them.

Note the use of the terms ‘confederacy’ and ‘union.’

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❝A CIVIL WAR NOVEL INSPIRED THE FIREFLY UNIVERSE. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels from author Michael Shaara was Joss Whedon’s inspiration for creating Firefly. It follows Union and Confederate soldiers during four days at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Whedon modeled the series and world on the Reconstruction Era, but set in the future.❞

~ Rudie Obias, “23 Fun Facts About Firefly” [source]

❝The appeal of post-war survivors scraping by on the outskirts of society—in a science-fiction context—struck a chord with Whedon. “I was taken with the idea of a civil war and rebuilding from the point of view of people who had lost the war,” he says. “There were people after the war who internalized it so terribly that it completely destroyed them.”❞ 

~ Joss Whedon interview with MoviesOnline [source]

As you can see, there’s no need to debate whether or not the parallels between Firefly’s browncoats and American Civil War confederates are intentional – Joss Whedon has said so himself.

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Note similarities between Malcolm Reynolds’ character biography and the biography of actual confederate general Jubal Anderson Early.

From the Jubal Early entry on Wikipedia [link]:

When the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered on April 9, 1865, Early escaped to Texas by horseback, where he hoped to find a Confederate force still holding out. He proceeded to Mexico, and from there, sailed to Cuba and Canada. Living in Toronto, he wrote his memoir, A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence, in the Confederate States of America, which focused on his Valley Campaign. The book was published in 1867.

Early was pardoned in 1868 by President Andrew Johnson, but still remained an “unreconstructed rebel”. In 1869, he returned to Virginia and resumed the practice of law. He was among the most vocal of those who promoted the Lost Cause movement.

From the Malcolm Reynolds entry on the Firefly Wiki [link]:

His contempt for the Alliance never completely disappeared (although he once said that he “wouldn’t mind makin’ a buck off ‘em”, and was shown in multiple episodes willing to steal Alliance supplies for a job, as long as it doesn’t affect the people), and, although he was on the losing side of the Unification War, years later he still wasn’t convinced it was the wrong one. Mal expressed what seemed to be his manifesto—"[The Alliance] will swing back to the belief that they can make people… better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.“ His anti-government attitude was reflected in his choice to live on a spaceship, drifting from world to world, as far away from Alliance interference as possible.

See also: 

Firefly Wiki article on the Battle of Serenity Valley 

vs 

Wikepedia article on the Battle of Shenandoah Valley.

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The name Jubal Early probably sounds familiar to you even if you know nothing about Civil War history.

❝The bounty hunter in ‘Objects in Space’, the final episode of Joss Whedon’s series Firefly is named Jubal Early because Joss Whedon knew from Nathan Fillion, who played the main character Malcolm Reynolds, that he was his ancestor. For dramatic irony regarding his name, he is played by Richard Brooks, an African-American man.❞ 

~ another excerpt from the Jubal Early Wikipedia page

Yes, that’s right. Joss Whedon asked a black actor to play a lunatic rapist bounty hunter named after a real life confederate general.  Joss Whedon has even stated in a different MoviesOnline interview that he “loves that character.”

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Now I mentioned “cowboys vs injuns reavers” earlier:

In the unaired pilot Simon Tam explicity refers to the reavers as “savages”  – one of the more popular Native American slurs used by settlers in the North American “Old West.” In the same episode we see Mal and Zoe riding through an open plain on horseback wearing chaps and carrying shotguns. Right from the get-go we have protagonists dressed like cowboys in a spaghetti western, shit-talking an entire culture of supposedly “mindless savages” (yet not so mindless they can’t still practice guerrilla warfare in a fairly organized fashion).

Recommended reading: The Culture of Violence in the American West: Myth versus Reality

The episode “Bushwhacked” features a character – the lone survivor of a reaver ambush – who’s “gone native” and become a reaver himself. He completes his transformation from sane pilgrim into savage reaver by “cuttin’ on himself” to making himself “look like one of them” – which he accomplishes by giving himself facial piercings which I, for one, found oddly reminiscent of those worn in certain Native American and Pacific Islander cultures.

He proceeds to attack the Firefly crew using guerrilla style tactics.

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People want to believe that they can weed out the Orientalism, shovel off the bastardization of the Chinese language, and jackhammer their way through the thick crust of Asian cultural appropriation to reveal a better, purer show buried underneath.

But they can’t.

Firefly’s bedrock is racist.

Firefly is racist from its terraformed surface all the way down to its molten core.

white chronically ill folk

lianhongba:

lianhongba:

i cannot tell you how many times, that people dont think i am chronically ill. because i’m brown. even on tumblr, the amount of people who immediately assume i am not chronically ill because i talk ab racism at the same time.

when i talk ab racism and racism with white spoonies, you all white ppl default to assuming i am not a spoonie myself. that is just. racism like you wouldn’t even know.

if you knew the racism that doctors perpertuate against chronically ill people of colour you would shut the hell up.assuming a nonwhite person talking ab racism with white spoonies to not be chronically ill is a form of racist medical violence

.you’re not better than the doctors who laugh at us and say we’re just lazy or that we try to milk the medical system like fuck all of you.i see to many of you like this and none of you hold yourselves accountable

this is ok to reblog even if you are not chronically ill but i would like other chronically ill people, esp white spoonies to reblog this please.

there is a huge amount of racism with the spoonie community and its never really addressed

grey-is-my-favourite-colour:

Anon submitted:

*genitals mention tw, rape mention tw, sex mention tw*

I am an Asian cis-WOC who has a lot of frustration with the asexual community.

I’ve written about this elsewhere, but I really need white people – asexual and allosexual – to stop saying that “POC sexual attraction/behavior isn’t privileged" as a way to invalidate asexuals. This implies that asexual POC are thus privileged over allosexual POC, which is very insulting to us. Yes, POC may be judged more harshly for sexualized behavior – for example, Miley Cyrus and Lena Dunham are praised as “feminist” but Beyonce is criticized for being “too sexy” – and everyone should be aware they’re not falling into that trap.

However, hypersexualization and fetishization of POC is driven by racism, not about our sexual attraction or behavior. My features – olive skin, thick dark hair, full lips – are usually portrayed in popular culture as sexy or sensual, not pretty or beautiful or cute. Before I knew I was ace, I had intense self-loathing, particularly for sexualized body parts such as thighs and skin. I still struggle with body hatred because I don’t feel sexual but look that way.

POC bodies, NOT BEHAVIOR, are sexualized and fetishized. Stereotypes about genital size inform stereotypes of black men as hypermasculine and Asian men as effeminate. Even a wealthy, middle aged, married black woman like Michelle Obama has inappropriate media attention paid to her rear end. Asian fetishists are fascinated by rumors that Asian women have sideways vaginas or that we’re “tighter” than other women. Some people even refer to our skin color in food terms. Even when fetishization is not so blatantly anatomical, there are stereotypes about Latinx and Middle Eastern people as “naturally sensual” or Native American and indigenous people as “noble savages,” their bodies providing playgrounds for fulfillment of white sexual fantasies. This has nothing to do with our sexuality, whatever it may be, and everything to do with our race.

White aces, how would you like your race to be a popular porn category, or to have cis-het men associate your race with massage parlors, mail-order brides, and foreign sex tours?*

White people need to understand that asexual POC do not get a free pass out of sexualization and also need to stop exploiting racism to silence or bash aces – some of whom are POC(!)

Lastly, I want to address the rhetoric around sex favorability. I want white aces to think about WOC when they discuss sex favorability, compromise, and “aces can have sex too!!!!!” It is not ok to promote asexual sexual availability without also promoting asexual sexual agency.

Too often allosexuals hear “aces can have sex too!!!!” and assume that since we don’t feel sexual attraction (one definition), sex doesn’t mean anything to us, and therefore we’ll eagerly comply with their desires. I have seen them happily suggest that sex means about as much to us as eating pie, or that we do it as a chore to keep our allosexual partners happy. (Fine if you do, but this doesn’t apply to most asexuals – I suspect that most sex-enjoying asexuals enjoy it only under certain circumstances, and many of us don’t care for it at all.)

WOC are already hypersexualized, denied sexual agency due to our race and gender, and may be sought out for specifically sexual reasons (it’s harder to spot than you think, racial fetishists may deny it, or not be upfront/obvious). We don’t need another reason for people to assume our sexual availability. If the asexual community really wants to support aces of color, particularly ace WOC,** we need stop the unqualified “aces can have sex” line and instead insist that asexuals have the right to completely opt out of sex (as most of us will) or to freely choose to have it on our own terms.

*White people, now is not the time to call me “wh*rephobic” or SWERF. My problem here is not with women in the sex industry (or mail order brides for that matter), but men associating Asian women with sexual availability. This happens with other WOC too. It is racist because 1.) it generalizes about an entire racial group of women, and 2.) WOC and women from non-Western countries are overrepresented in the sex industry due to the socioeconomic effects of institutionalized racism, colonialism and exploitation. Given that men, including johns, commit the overwhelming majority of physical and sexual violence against sex workers, and that many think it’s ok to coerce or mistreat sex workers (example, assuming exotic dancers will also offer sex or sexually assaulting them), I don’t think it’s “wh*rephobic” for me to fear for my safety if a cis-het male stranger assumes I’m a sex worker.

**This is applicable to other aces, not just POC.

micdotcom:

Over 87,000 people are calling for Charleston to remove its Confederate flag 

After the massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, left nine black people dead, all the official flags throughout the state flew at half-mast. All but one: the Confederate flag. The symbol of slavery remained full-mast, defiantly flying high at the S.C. State House. Now nearly 100,000 people are fighting back — but sadly, it will take great effort to get it removed.