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Just wanted to come on here as an Ohioan and tell you all that apparently lines are out the door at hatian restaurants in Springfield as locals flock to support them right now. Have a few people I know saying this on local Facebook groups :)
Regarding Challenges to the President's Citizenship
Birther= thinly veiled racio-populist, a relic out of the 1930s
a. it's all fake, just like this idea that "black people are stupid" or "women are all irrational" and that's why people will call you a racist, so get used to it if you're going to hold these views.
b. if i grant to you that it's true, it's still irrelevant
There's no such thing as a xenophobic culture that has been successful. Ever. Every last one ends in spectacular failure. You wanna see it first hand, compare North and South Korea. Consider that it was the xenophobic political climate in Europe more than anything else that gave us people like Einstein and Enrico Fermi. Germany and Italy lost their shot at beating us to the bomb because the people they didn't like went where the opportunities were and *those states wasted resources persecuting those people*. Like making up evidence that they weren't Italian enough or that they were of impure racial descent. You're not innovating here.
So, before you get it into your head that you're going to make the most powerful man in the world step down by attacking his birth credentials (which hasn't worked in four years, guess what it won't work now either) try and keep in mind that even if you *do* in fact have a foreign-born and naturalized citizen in the White House, that doesn't add up to nefarious plots to destroy you. Unless of course you're a xenophobe, in which case everyone who's not similar to you in race, creed, or whatever other arbitrarily defined parameter is a threat.
It's not some new amazing logic that you're positing. Let's be lead by "one of us" a Christian or a Businessman or a Good Old Boy. After all, you don't get more Japanese than Hirohito, and his policies were AWESOME for their nation. If you call being conquered and remade in someone else's image a good thing. That is the fate of the xenophobe. Everything you're afraid of about diversity will absolutely come true the more you try to maintain racial/national/faith purity.
You're living in the global world, and you're quickly approaching the time where there will be no place left for people who want to live in a state of in-group favoritism. When that happens, and it's going to sooner than you think, people who can't speak more than one language, people who don't want to relocate to wherever in the world the work is and people who want to keep the nation pure are going to be the ones left behind to toil in coffee fields and pick fruit. But at least you'll be slaving away to produce my granola bars with your own kind.
VEAUTIFUL WITH V 💜🌸
MY SKIN MY PRIDE WITH V 💚🌼
Don't let skin color prevent you from shining your light. ❤️🌺
Focus on the main aspects of being human: the mind and the spirit.🌈
VEAUTIFUL WITH V 💜🌸
MY SKIN MY PRIDE WITH V 💚🌼
Be proud of who you are, no matter the tone of your skin. ❤️🌺
Eliminating aspects such as racism from society makes us more connected. 🌈
BEAUTIFUL WITH JK 💜🌸
MY SKIN MY PRIDE WITH JK 💚🌼
The purity is heart is what determines the greatness of someone. ❤️🌺
The determinant of who someone is is based on their behaviour, not skin color. 🌈
another half fleshed out 2:30am thought: i think it’s bad that we are teaching women and girls to be fearful of literally everything. it’s absolutely true that there are dangerous things and people out there and folks who are perceived as women are at higher risk for those things. but i just saw a girl make a video on tik tok freaking out because some drunk guy fell asleep in her apartment hallway near her door and has convinced herself that he’s stalking her. if that’s actually what happened, that’s awful. but what it sounds like is a guy passed out drunk in the hallway and because society has absolutely fried womens’ nerves when it comes to safety she has come to the conclusion that she’s clearly personally in danger. this isn’t healthy. this isn’t a way to live. we have to find a happy medium between acknowledging systemic misogyny and making women and people perceived as women terrified of literally just existing.
I'm glad someone brought these difficulties to light, because here in Mongolia can get similarly xenophobic. A few teachers and some students in my school years have made snide remarks about me working to overtake the academic scores upon finding out my hafu lineage. Luckily, since my mother's Japanese, me & my siblings got off fairly lightly. But upon coming into Japan, although we were stared at from time to time, we never really experienced racism within or corresponding discrimination. They knew that we weren't full blooded, but few problems came by even in Japanese only areas. Here's what my worst experience was for discrimination:
A girl I met back in grade 9 asked me out for dinner & a movie in Darkhad offered to hitch me a ride to my ger, & her dad came up the dark gravel road in a bright blue jeep, we got around to sharing more about our lives. When I shared that my mother was a shrine keeper's daughter, his mood lit up, until I revealed that she's Japanese. By then, a glint appeared in his left eye, & he revealed that he was part of Dayar Mongol, leaving me shivering under my hat. About midway to my home, he reached for my neck, & snarled at me in a chilling way in an already cold night. He warned me if I dare take his daughter as a permanent date, that he'll slit my stomach in cold blood. From then on, I rarely revealed my truth except with close friends & if I'm with the date girls often enough or are close enough.
By high school graduation, things more or less smoothed out even when I met who turned out nationalist since I looked enough the part to pass by without danger even in bars. Me & my brother took to the bars quite frequently before he moved to Japan.
日系人
in the wake of dracula daily and subsequent ongoing discussions of the antisemitism that drives the book, i thought i’d throw together a very brief primer based on little strands of research i’ve done in the past around some of the history that scaffolds dracula. i’m not trying to scold people for participating in the more lighthearted end of this cultural moment – i love dracula, i’m also reading dracula daily and enjoying everyone’s little jokes about jonathan harker and his paprika and so on – but i am trying to provide what i hope is a somewhat useful resource for deeper engagement with the text, a necessary critical skill if you want to have anything meaningful to say about it. i’m not really interested in coddling people’s feelings about antisemitism, and i think it’s in everyone’s best interests to provide a little bit of a framework for how we approach and think about and talk about what is a pretty unambiguously bigoted book.
for what it’s worth, i find the most productive way to approach this text, as with any text that emerges from a tradition of immense violence (ie. pretty much any work of english literature from the nineteenth century, all of which write from the heartlands of imperialist plunder and the formation of nationalist cultural norms) is as a historical document. there’s a difference in these discourses between a piece that’s made today, where we might ask why we’ve allowed particular cultural conditions to facilitate the telling of narratives that are attempting to naturalise conditions of bigotry, and one created in 1897, where our relationship to that historical moment should be one of self-reflection and analysis with an eye to informing our understanding of present-day violences. my point is that a text which locates itself within the british antisemitism of the late nineteenth century is one which can enhance our understanding of that antisemitism and its present-day legacy.
i also want to clarify that i don’t intend to reduce the bigotry of dracula to just the antisemitism – it is clearly shaped by broader strokes around racism and imperialist race science in particular, but the specific british-jewish cultural history within which it is grounded happens to be the one that i have a relatively coherent understanding of, and wanted to share. i don’t at all intend to frame this as a complete account – i’m more just putting what i have to hand out into the world for others to do with what they will and ultimately come to their own conclusions about the text and how best to engage with it.
i think it’s worthwhile to also touch briefly on the fact that dracula is by no means alone in invoking antisemitism where vampires are concerned – what often gets missed in discourses around what vampires can represent (parasitic capitalism being an incredibly common discursive invocation, to the point where it’s kind of embarrassing that so-called marxists can’t make the very short leap) is that much of the vampire mythos is shaped by antisemitism. the draining of blood closely resembles a blood libel, ie. the smear that jews drink the blood of christian children; the state of being repelled by a crucifix should be self-explanatory; the construction of the vampire as a parasite leeching off of communal social formations forged within white imperialist societies closely reflects anxieties regarding the allegedly parasitic presence of jews both in eastern + central europe and new immigrant communities in britain. the vampire is immortal as the jew is eternal – the ‘eternal jew’ is a nazi smear drawing from the antisemitic canard of the ‘wandering jew,’ which in turn dates back to the thirteenth century. the vampire threatens the national body and so does the jew. the rush to point to the vampire as an apt metaphor for the parasitism of capitalism too quickly falls into the mire of discourses that entwine capitalist violence with jewish populations (jews are all moneygrabbing leeches and so on), and redirects anger towards capitalism into antisemitism. whilst the history of the vampire as a folkloric figure is far richer than just ‘jews bad,’ it is undeniable that this cultural scaffolding exists, and informs dracula even before stoker comes to personally intervene in discourses of antisemitism specific to the conditions from which he was writing.
this excellent paper on dracula and the gothic response to anxieties of imperialist decay – ie. fear of a ‘reverse colonialism’ – that did the rounds on this website a few days ago covers a lot of important and helpful ground for this text, and i would highly recommend giving it a read. what it misses, however, is that dracula is rooted not only in these abstract notions of imperial decline and external threats to ‘britishness,’ but in the very definite, concrete historical moment in which new discourses of antisemitism were emerging in britain – and that is the history that i want to touch on now.
in 1882, in the wake of the assassination of tsar alexander ii for which the jewish population of the russian empire were scapegoated, a set of highly repressive laws known as the ‘may laws’ were passed. in short, these laws heavily restricted jewish freedom of movement within the empire, almost entirely limiting jewish settlement to the pale of settlement (a portion of land in the westernmost part of the russian empire, encompassing modern-day belarus, lithuania, and moldova, and parts of poland + ukraine) and restricting property ownership + establishing strict administrative quotas across various sectors that severely limited jewish participation in russian society. this in turn brought about expulsions of portions of the jewish populations of moscow and st petersburg where these quotas were exceeded. crucially, these repressive laws were tightened over the next decade, which, alongside a series of brutal pogroms, caused mass emigration of the ashkenazi population from the russian empire. one significant epicentre for jewish settlement at the end of the nineteenth century was the east end of london. this was, of course, coterminous to the writing of dracula, in which an eastern european man imbued with a number of antisemitic smears attempts to inculcate himself within the population of london and imitate britishness with the eventual intent of sucking it dry – you see the very obvious lines being drawn here.
it goes without saying that the establishment of a new immigrant population in london would stoke the sort of reactionary sentiments that we can locate in dracula; however, we might look beyond just a loose historical correlation and consider the possible relationship between the whitechapel murders (colloquially known as the jack the ripper murders – whitechapel is located in the east end if you didn’t know) and stoker’s novel (published seven years after the last of the murders) amidst the adjacent discourses that said murders generated. in addition to the fascination with an ‘underside’ to victorian society in which sexual + social moralising was inverted and voyeurised by the moralist bourgeois class that these murders, targeting poor sex workers, amplified (think the kind of sensationalism we see with true crime culture today – very much the prototype of that), the projection of sensationalised sexual degeneracy and lechery onto the murders in turn invoked antisemitic discourses in which the east end’s jewish population became a nodal point of sorts where these spectral anxieties could be projected. a physical description of jack the ripper at one point included a dark beard and a foreign accent, with a sketch that added a hooked nose, and the famous goulston street graffito in 1888 which read ‘the juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing’ has, though unproven, been treated as though it were written in connection with the whitechapel murders. john pizer, a jewish man, was at one point arrested for the murders (and later released), and police reports around this referred to emergent broader anti-jewish sentiment in whitechapel. the point is, there’s a case to be made for the whitechapel murders having amplified already-extant antisemitism in the east end, and a further case to be made for this specific blood libel adjacency to have shaped bram stoker’s novel. (to compare; this is, for example, the same discourse that scaffolds the joke in what we do in the shadows about laszlo being jack the ripper.) whilst we don’t know that stoker consciously, explicitly had jack the ripper in mind, 1) it is a theory that has been critically posited before, and 2) at the very least, the novel’s unambiguous antisemitism that locates itself most prominently within a blood libel would have been informed by discourses specific to london, of which this was a major one.
that dracula himself is something of an antisemitic caricature is, i would hope, obvious; and of course, the text is laced with the language of physiognomy and the fear that an immigrant might sufficiently imitate britishness to the point of being able to pass himself off as british wholesale. to take this further, we might, for example, think about how stoker depicts lucy westenras – a ‘blonde, demure’ white woman representative of the british imperialist fantasy of white womanhood becomes a vampire and feeds off of the same children that she (as a white woman) is socially conditioned to care for and reproduce, thus rendering the vampiric threat as one that targets white women and their reproductive roles within the imperial social formation. we might similarly point to the whitechapel murders and the simultaneous sensationalising of sex workers’ murders against the figure of the ‘good’ bourgeois white woman + the subsequent anxiety that the jewish population of the east end might represent a real, immediate threat to london’s womanhood.i don’t want to be overly didactic about this book, and i think that after a certain point this scaffolding is such that people can go away and do the work themselves – like, i’m not going to sit here drawing out point after painstaking point about how dracula is peppered with the language of race science and imperialist anxiety at points x, and y, and z. my intention here was to provide a bit of specific background context for how & why this novel came about, from the relatively meagre well of information that i have to hand. my closing remarks might be that we could use all of this discourse as a launchpad for thinking about the points of convergence of subjugation within the vampire myth, and what that can tell us about how imperialism refortifies itself + against which values it does so – in dracula, in sheridan le fanu’s carmilla, in samuel taylor coleridge’s christabel, and in the broader corpus of myth to which all of these texts are responding, we can identify repeated convergent themes of othering the jew, the irish population (le fanu was anglo-irish and a popular reading of carmilla is as representative of the colonisation of ireland), the homosexual (dracula is incredibly homoerotic, and both carmilla and christabel are fairly explicitly lesbian), the racialised + colonised populace, and the projection of lechery and sexual degeneracy onto all of these subjects in the ultimate interest of reifying white gentile imperialist sexual formations. the somewhat effete feminising of dracula comes against the masculinising of the imperial british man, for example; the ‘othered’ populace exists in threat & opposition to the imperial norm (and the feminised jewish man is a classic of antisemitism, eg. as far back as the medieval smear that jewish men menstruated). all of these figures clustered under the broad umbrella of the vampire are rendered as threats to reproductive white heterosexuality, and as such, to the reproduction of the imperial order, and to capital, and i’ve always found this to be the most elucidating angle from which i can engage with the text critically. i hope at the very least this is a helpful little conjunction of Thoughts that people can do something with?
trigger warning for violence.
recently there has been a lot of violence and abuse towards the asian community, particularly to the elderly. i’ve only seen these stories covered on asian platforms like nextshark or through asian influencers and activists.
i wanted to find some resources to reblog on tumblr to raise awareness, but having the word “asian” in my search just took me to suggestive content (which speaks to another large issue in the asian community, and in case you weren’t aware, recently apple’s adult content filter blocked the word asian from its browser search).
since i couldn’t find posts talking about this, i just wanted to share some of the horrible things that have been happening lately because i believe this needs more coverage and awareness:
LIST OF INCIDENTS OF XENOPHOBIA AND RACISM RELATED TO THE PANDEMIC
thai man, 84, dies after being attacked in broad daylight in san francisco (1) (2)
70 year old grandmother robbed on her way home (1) (2)
64 year old grandmother robbed of $1000 in san jose
asian man beaten and robbed of around $15 000
elderly chinese couple beaten, wife dies from injuries
9 asian-owned businesses have their windows smashed in oregon
oakland chinatown hit with over 20 attacks targeting elderly in 2 weeks (1) (2)
trigger warning for violence.
recently there has been a lot of violence and abuse towards the asian community, particularly to the elderly. i’ve only seen these stories covered on asian platforms like nextshark or through asian influencers and activists.
i wanted to find some resources to reblog on tumblr to raise awareness, but having the word “asian” in my search just took me to suggestive content (which speaks to another large issue in the asian community, and in case you weren’t aware, recently apple’s adult content filter blocked the word asian from its browser search).
since i couldn’t find posts talking about this, i just wanted to share some of the horrible things that have been happening lately because i believe this needs more coverage and awareness:
LIST OF INCIDENTS OF XENOPHOBIA AND RACISM RELATED TO THE PANDEMIC
thai man, 84, dies after being attacked in broad daylight in san francisco (1) (2)
70 year old grandmother robbed on her way home (1) (2)
64 year old grandmother robbed of $1000 in san jose
asian man beaten and robbed of around $15 000
elderly chinese couple beaten, wife dies from injuries
9 asian-owned businesses have their windows smashed in oregon
oakland chinatown hit with over 20 attacks targeting elderly in 2 weeks (1) (2)
The Year is 2072
Canada is currently being annexed by the US Government and the Enclave. Even Tumblr is questioning if Canadian Xenophobia and Genocide is morally good or not.
Kill them. Kill the Xenos immediately. Then use their body for corpse starch.
I need ALL of you to understand that your silly little technicolor furry/scaly/protogen/“creature” OCs would be shot down the moment anyone saw them without hesitation.
Super Earth is the right hand of the god of xenophobia that is Warhammer 40,000, meaning everyone that isn’t 100% human in appearance is dead on the spot.
Hell, they’d probably do worse than that. I wouldn’t put Super Earth past classified concentration camps for people with birth defects, or worse, grievously unethical human experimentation that’s hidden behind the guise of a placebo medical program.
“Oh, you think we’re just gonna give you some pills for a few weeks and you can just leave? Hell no. We’re going to pump a gallon of medical class deliriants into your body to see how much fear the human body can handle. Our Helldivers will really benefit from this glorious sacrifice of yours.”
They might not even bother with all that. They might have mandatory legislation that states they HAVE to abort the baby, and force the grieving family to work on a hell-colony on Hellmire, or god forbid a Terminid hive world.
You wanna know what’s crazy?! It could be EVEN MORE BRUTAL. They could just toss them off a cliff like the Greeks did and brand it as some sick, demented ritual to appease the “Spirit of Democracy”. Shit’s fuckin’ BAD, brother.
Super Earth is a DYSTOPIAN society that makes no place for anything different or erratic. It’s all black and yellow, and the people who are not wearing black and yellow are killed because the government tells them that they are wrong, bad, stupid and dumb and a bunch of poopy face losers.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk about the nature of societal dystopias like these being inextricably linked to puritanical hellscapes.
(It looks really good btw)
Helldiver Demily fanart by @axidentshappen
Yoshi-p and Xenophobia in gaming
Ff16 is causing a buzz online due to its producer Naoki Yoshida defending the game's lack of diversity under the guise of " Historical realism ". Ah yes, the game where you can summon mythical beasts and cast magic spells is so deeply trenched in realism. Naoki's statements are outright xenophobic even if he didn't intend them to be as such. He's reinforcing the idea that people of color have no place in fantasy worlds and that their existence is somehow more esoteric than literal dragons. I never knew we were so special that we outshine all manner of Mythical Gods and monsters just by breathing.
Even if you want to but into the historical accuracy nonsense, various articles online provide proof of Africans living in medieval England so there's no need to have such a vanilla white cast. Perhaps Naoki should do his research before making outrageous claims. Black people have existed in Europe for while now. We've been here and yet he acts as if we don't exist. Don't y'all ever get tired of making all white fantasy games anyway? A little melanin here and there never killed anyone. Well, except for Mihoyo because they avoid the color brown like its poison. It's crazy how they made two regions based on South Asia and the Middle East with no dark skin characters in sight. And no, using the absolute lightest shade of brown possible doesn't count as representation. Even real life white people have darker tans than the Genshin Impact cast.
It's gotten to the point that a small number of fans are boycotting ff16 in the name of diversity. Similar to Hogwarts Legacy, I don't believe it's a good idea to boycott a game simply because of a disagreeable opinion from the staff. Boycotting won't change anything or inspire Naoki to do better. The best thing to do is to call out Naoki's Ideology and state why diversity is so important in media. Developers and Producers need to be made aware of how their actions affect their fans, particularly fans of color. POC have every right to exist in the world of fantasy.
This post will mostly be to my irl friends but even if you have no clue who i am you can keep reading😀👌
Warning: the rest of this will contain topics such as, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, xenophobia etc.
Also please excuse my grammar and writing style. Im just writing down my thoughts.
I don't really know how to start this. I have been thinking about writing this for a long time. But today i finally decided to do it.
I live with my parents and (half) sister who's in college.
The problem is my dad.
No, he's not abusive, at least i don't think of him as abusive. That may sound strange but i genuinely don't know if he is and im just so immune to it that i don't think of it as abuse or if im just overreacting .
The real problem is his memtality.
He was born in the very late 60's so yes he is in fact old.
He has this mentality that he is right and EVERYBODY else is wrong. Everyone in my house has acknowledged this. Except him obviously.
Unfortunately (as some of you may have already realised based on the warnings) he is in fact xenophobic.
He is very very transphobic. For example:
"don't you think it wierd that people are out there pretending to be the other gender?"
"its either she or he, there is no they"
"this kind of 'stuff' wasn't around when i was your age"
Yes these are all direct quotes from him.
There are many many more that i cant think of right now but if i do remember any more i will add them.
Also, i know this is an age old argument but, ehat do you have against trans people? They arent bothering you? If anything YOU are the ones bothering them.
Anyways.
That's only his transphobic side.
We've barley touched his homophobic side.
Now, i will say the is very slightly more accepting of, this commumity than trans people.
Slightly.
By slightly i mean he dosent sit me down after seeing thr word "nonbianary" on the back of one of thr books my friend lent me and tell me all about these "odd people" that are-LIVING THEIR LIVES WITHOUT YOU BOTHERING THEM.
Exuse me.
A little cough came out there.
Also yes "odd people" is another direct quote.
Continuing on.
Sexism.
This one is very very vague because he's only given me a sexist vibe a few times but it still bothers me.
StOrY tImE
I was telling my dad about some of thr fights at my school and his legit resposlnse whaen i told him a teacher had gotten involved was "sometimes boys need to fight and i know your school will never agree with me but its true"
As you can see, very much a self believe that he is the only right person to ever exist on earth.
Another example:
I was telling him about some of my friends breaking up (platonically) and moving lunch tables because they weren't talking to each other anymorw.
" you see that happen a lot, girls fighting, but you just get used to it"
Like ?
He grew up with two other brothers, no sisters. How many women did you watch fight?
Also kinda off topic but he seems oddly against Chinese people💀
Idk what he has against them but he just...doesn't like them?
Anyways thank you for comin to my ted talk about all my dads problems.
I will update this if i ever feel the need to.
Originally posted on Mar 7 2024.
People who beat up/harass asians and claim it’s because of the coronavirus scare aren’t fooling anybody. If you REALLY thought someone was infected would you really go out of your way to touch/shove/assault/interact with them? Or are you just using a global pandemic as an excuse to show your true colors? F*ck outta here with that racism/xenophobia
Billboard is too dumb to exist.
The audacity of it to blame the fandom of chart manipulation and mass buying is just unacceptable. BTS is no where safe in US. It's just us for them and them for us.
Talking about replacing BTS is just so unprofessional to me like what the heck?
And I can't even count how many times has been the millitary service thing has been brought up. Like let them breathe and live their life?
Not one normal interviewer in the US who actually interviews. All they know is how to ask uncomfortable questions.
"where are your girlfriends?" "Hooking up with Army's?" "Army's are insane" "relationships"
All they know is how to talk trash nothing else. Get some good interviewers will you?
These are all the disgusting things the Billboard article said.
You would assume that this person's a right-wing who would refer to Muslims as "Musulmen" in a derogatory fashion, but no, it's a TERF