Reverse Racism; A Much Needed Article/informative Post, Because If I See Another Racially Illiterate

Reverse Racism; A much needed article/informative post, because if I see another racially illiterate mofo watering down racism to “just another discrimination, I'm gonna fucking combust.

Main source is The Conversation's article on this topic. Content warning for mentioning of discrimination and neo-nazism.

Ah, yes. Racism, that infamous word. This important word needed to help us understand the social relations that are affected with this element.

It is a very great watershed, indeed. Specially because of one controversial topic: Reverse Racism. But what is reverse racism, after all?

Reverse racism is the idea that racism can happen to white people and that white people can/are affected by racist violence by (normally) non-white people. In other words, a myth.

“But Angelle, ain't racism discrimination based on race? Wouldn't that include discrimination against white people as well?” Great question, little grasshopper, but this definition is actually wrong.

Sure, racism does involve a huge discrimination element, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. The correct definition for racism is Prejudice + Power. More specifically, institutional power. Racism is, at it's core, an institution and an structure, made to protect and put white people at advantage.

And this is basically it. Reverse racism does not exist, and if you believe it does, you are either naïve and racially illiterate, at best, or a whole white supremacist, at worst.

Iiihh, are ya surprised? Well, don't be, because this rethoric of anti-white racism is a racist and a neo-nazi belief. Many white supremacists across the world use phrases like “white lives matter”, “all lives matter” (that one a little bit tricky, because all lives indeed matter; but here's the thing, that is what the anti racist movement is here for! And the women's liberation movement! And the mogai activism! The “all lives matter” does nothing but take the focus away from minorities subtly, so it's real important to pay attention.), “It's ok to be white”, and nanananana, and this kind of shenanigans. Many of them are also dog whistles (see Anti Defamation League's dog whistles glossary for more information).

In conclusion, reverse racism does not exist. It's just another racist rethoric, and y'all need to learn to listen to people of colour when we say something is bullshit. Thank you for coming to my ted talk and have a great day.

Why the FUCK did the brazilian government ban Twitter/X from Brazil and why, surprising absolutely no one, that's Elon Musk's fault:

Okay so I didn't proofread this post, so if there's anything I got wrong please tell me but I really felt the need to explain this to the usamerican website:

Yesterday Twitter got banned from Brazil. Like, "government banned it" kind of ban. If you are caught using a VPN to access Twitter, you'll have to pay a fine worth of R$50.000 reais, or U$ 8911,94 dollars. Is the ban going to last more than, like, two weeks? Proooobably not, but what matters is that it got BANNED.

Is the brazilian government censoring Twitter? Only if you consider making Grimes' ex, aka Elon Musk, suffer consequences to his own actions censoring. AKA, no, it's not a censorship, this is just law being followed.

Okay, what the fuck did Grimes' ex do to get it banned? Not following brazilian law. But, loooong story short: You know how Twitter gave a permanent ban to certain people from the alt-right thanks to them disseminating racist, sexist and antivax propaganda, amongst other extremely dangerous things and fake news? This has happened in multiple countries (remember when Trump got banned from Twitter?), including in Brazil. Normally, this happens thanks to the government of said country giving out orders for Twitter to do so. The same thing happened in Brazil previously, except that this time, Musk decided to throw a tantrum, accusing the brazilian government of censorship, ignoring the fact that the same fucking thing happens all the time all around the world.

image id: a photo of Alexandre de Moraes giving a speech. end image id.

So, brazilian government says "ban these guys". Twitter goes "OK". Elon then goes "actually no", and unbans these accounts, going against direct government orders. Now, enters another guy in this story: Alexandre de Moraes, nicknamed "Xandão" by brazilians, also known as "just" the guy in charge of the brazilian Supreme Court (who I'll refer as "STF" from now on!). He's the one who told Musk to keep up the ban. Musk accused him of censorship, despite the fact that these profiles were spreading EXTREMELY DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION. Moraes is now being the face of the brazilian "censorship", but by all means and accounts, he's doing his job. What he is doing is not illegal, and also correct. He's NO SAINT, mind you, but he's doing the right (or at least the better) thing here.

So Moraes goes "what you're doing here is illegal". Musk goes "uhm actually I'm above the law, you see. Because I own Twitter". Moraes goes "no, you're going to get punished by this, Twitter is going to court". Musk goes "no", and SOMEHOW, MAKES THE SITUATION WORSE. NONONONONO. LEMME TELL YOU WHAT THIS GUY DID.

For Twitter to go to court, it needs a legal representative, right? WELL. WHAT IF IT DOESN'T HAVE A LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE, THEN?

"This doesn't make any sense, companies need to have these people", unless you fire everyone from your company and then closes it doors. "What". That's what Elon decided to do: Fire everyone working at Twitter's brazilian office and then close its doors. There's no company in Brazil anymore! Thereby, no one needs to go to court!

So, still insisting on keeping literal nazis unbanned from Twitter, and now having NO people in Brazil working for it, there was literally nothing else for Alexandre de Moraes to do. Twitter already had to pay huge fines before Musk decided to close its doors! He kept on escalating the conflict! Moraes KEPT TELLING HIM to get his shit together and RESPECT BRAZILIAN LAW. So, two days ago, there's the last thing he could have done:

Gave Twitter - and Musk - 24 hours to appoint a legal representative, or have Twitter banned from Brazil.

Once again, this is not censorship. Whatever you hear about Moraes censoring people or abusing his power, that's a lie. This. Is. Not. Censorship. The procedure (asking the company to ban the harmful accounts, have them pay fines, make them go to court, ban the app) is what it is in brazilian law, and I know that because I studied this law! It's literally part of the only two laws that I know about!

Anyways, Musk still thought he was above law, and now brazilians can't use Twitter anymore. We aren't expecting Twitter to actually die here, and we aren't too worried about it for now. However, there's another important part of this plot.

You see, there are many news sources that are either accusing Moraes of censorship, or that WILL accuse him of doing so. These guys are wrong. If a gringo like Musk thinks they're above brazilian law, they will have to pay for the consequences. The USA has a history of fucking up with brazilian politics as recent as during our 2018 and 2022 elections, and Musk fucking around and finding out is just another added level to this. If you want to know more about how the USA fucked us over, I recommend studying the brazilian military dictatorship (lasted during 64 to 85), which was sponsored by the USA!

In the end, brazilian artists that used Twitter to get art and writing commissions are going to suffer a lot thanks to this, so if you see a brazilian artist around with open commissions, consider helping them out! One dollar is almost six reais, which is HUGE. Imagine being able to multiply your money almost six times over? And yes I'm brazilian, my writing and art commissions are also open, please consider taking a look around, okay byeee <3

Out of all of them, I only knew Mr. Beast.

Love it when Rolling Stone puts out an article about the 25 most influential internet creators and I've only heard of 7 of them

gotta train my art with those templates you find on pinterest 💪🏽💯🔥

Omg dont let any zionist see this, they'll die from lack of oxygen cause they'll be foaming from the mouth

But suuure, israel was made for ALL Jews 🤡🤡

If this doesn't apply to you, why did you feel so pressed?

fandom hates characters of colour having their own narrative, having their own character arc and development.

fandom hates it when poc are the heroes for once, and don’t fit into any stereotype, or any racist trope. 

fandom hates scott mccall, princess tiana, skye and melinda may whilst simultaneously raising their white friend to levels of adoration and constant celebration. see: stiles stilinski, charlotte la bouff and jemma simmons. 

fandom always find an moc, most of the time, black men, to be suspicious of. see: alan deaton, sam wilson, nick fury, antoine triplett. and these are just a few of the countless others. 

fandom hates it when woc are paired up with white men on anything. ‘why can’t they just be friends?’ ‘she’s a strong female character, why does she need a relationship?’ they all say without realising that woc are severely underrepresented and we are rarely cast as lead roles. see: abbie mills, mako mori, reboot!uhura, gwen from merlin and joan watson. we need to note that most of the time this occurs exclusively to black women. fandom stamps a ‘brotp’ label on their forehead and desexualises them. 

fandom makes countless photosets ‘celebrating female characters’ but all of these characters are white.

fandom loves m/m slash but don’t give a shit about it if it involves moc. for them, it is exclusively for cishet white guys. see: more fics for ‘stony’ than tony/rhodey despite the fact that rhodey and tony have known each other longer, have a close connection and are best friends.