SpookyGenderCommunist

Whiteness isn't simply the physical trait of having pale skin, in the way being tall is a physical trait. An entire social scaffolding has been built around the physical quality of pale skin, that denotes the absence of race, the presence of "normalcy", "purity", "superiority", and therefore a place at the top of a racial hierarchy.

But at the same time, whiteness is like the fucking Borg. In the US especially, the concept of whiteness assimilated a ton of different ethnic groups, robbed them of their language and culture, and left gringos like me with no culture to speak of, beyond getting run over by a Ford F250, while on your way to get a Big Mac.

And there's no real way to recover that cultural identity. Like, ok, I have Irish ancestry, but what does that really mean at this point? No one in my family has spoken Gaelic for generations and St Patrick's Day is just a reason for white people to get hammered. And in many ways, that's a horrendous tragedy, and a deep psychic wound in the minds of the settler population on this continent. There's a reason Americans love Genealogy. It's because they have no actual connection to the land they live on, so they scrape for some past, that the whiteness and colonialism which they benefit from, has also robbed from them.

That said, though I'm white, I'm also bi and trans. My queerness ties me to a history and a culture that's much more tangible then what your average straight, mayo, American has. So while I personally like to joke that "my ethnicity is removed", It's incredibly difficult to "not be white" in that socio-cultural sense. Because whiteness is so all consuming. There's no individual way to "stop being white", the only way forward is to abolish whiteness as a category.

Edit: Mods are erasing my ethnicity! I will not be silenced! /s

.....ok but why were they having preschoolers vote in mock elections?

It's "just" a video of two trucks, given what the headline claimed.

When I first read the headline, I figured the image would be a kinda jank AI generated picture of Biden bound and gagged. Like... The headline makes it seem like that's the focus of Trumps post.

But it isn't. The focus of the image are the trucks adorned with Trump memorabilia. That's the thing he cares about in this case. The presence of the Chud Tailgate Murder Fantasy is incidental.

And for that matter, what do you mean "normalizing"? This shit is already normal. That's the problem.

Right, this shit has already been normalized. We ought to be concerned with how to deal with it.

Hey man.... You can do that stuff literally anywhere else

No small children, just my large adult son, for being incredibly cringe

Today is March 27th, which is supposedly when the full medical Examiner's report on the death of Nex Benedict is to be released. I'm pretty suspicious about the suicide claim. Not to put on my tinfoil hat, but The whole thing smells of a coverup to me. It'll be interesting to read the full report though

We can devote our collective attention to multiple things at once. If you don't understand how the US' declining status as the imperial hegemon leads to both domestic tragedies of crumbing infrastructure like this, as well as violent lashings out in places like in the middle east, then you have a piss poor understanding of dialectics.

As a dumb dumb who knows nothing about this period of history, why did the church go on a crusade against other Christians? What heresy were they supposedly committing, and what material factors drove the Albigensian Crusade?

Can I ask what the book is? I'd love to read more

You can also say a lot about stuff like Wicca and its dogshit creator, but I've known a few witches to also get involved in stuff.

As a Wiccan, I can confirm, Gerald Gardner was a weirdo little freak who sucked major ass. He gets credited with codifying the thing we now call Wicca, but his contributions tend to get overblown, since tons of that stuff was done by other people, especially women, who were a part of that movement. Women who were, by and large, cooler than he was.

Also, one of the more important primary source texts that influenced Wicca's development was Aradia, The Gospel of the Witches, wherein the Goddess Diana gives birth to a messianic figure named Aradia, who teaches oppressed peasants how to do magicsl class Warfare, which basically boils down to sabotaging crop yeilds, and poisoning priests and lords. It's incredibly cool and based.

It’s also a good criticism of the white savior trope but that goes into spoilers territory.

Can you elaborate on this? I just saw the movie last night, and I can't hero but feel like Herbert's original orientalism pokes through, despite all the stuff the film does to try and critique the orientalism extant in the text. Zendayav definitely exposits about it a few times, criticizing Paul's white saviorism. But I felt like the film really failed to follow up on it. Maybe part 3 will get More into it, but will we'll have to see.