Let me be clear:
The Palestinian people are suffering.
The need to get increased aid to the most vulnerable is urgent.
And our work with Israel to further increase the amount of aid getting into Gaza by land continues.
He used his platform to take a political snipe at Greta Thunberg then told everyone to shut up about politics.
This wasn't a call for 'no politics' it was Gervais deciding what politics needed to be aired.
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I’m hoping people start to understand that how their governments treated people during a pandemic is how they’ll treat them during climate change; sacrifice vulnerable people, deflect responsibility, opportunistically hoard resources and protect their own interests.
You should be highly suspicious of media that screamed about beheaded babies on the thinnest evidence but quietly ignores verifiable mass graves of handcuffed Palestinians.
White dudes have had 'cancel culture' since forever.
They call it networking and advise you to be nice and quiet because everyone in their industry is friends and they talk.
Funny how ‘respect for the dead’ mysteriously never applies to the people subjected to colonial violence and ongoing genocide just the ones who preside over it.
White people telling me that 'things were different, people didn't know it was wrong' when I talk about racism I was subjected to as a child.
Firstly, I'm people and I fucking knew it was wrong....
Secondly you're still not listening so it's not that fucking different hey
Reminder that ‘white’ isn’t a culture. It’s a coalition of power aligned around a shifting definition of whiteness.
It absorbs and claims technology while usually erasing the much more complex origins of it as part of its claim to superiority.
Coronavirus seems to be showing that, for all it’s talk about lack of resources, capitalism had the capacity to accommodate disabled people requiring flexible working arrangements - it just didn’t want to.
White ally: ‘You’ll lose me as an ally if you...’
Me: ‘Ok bye.’
White ally: ‘Your tone won’t...’
Me: ‘Look I’ve packed your suitcase and called you a taxi.’
A lot of these white western people quietly changing their opinion on Israel are going to accuse Palestinians of having no capacity for forgiveness rather than confront their own capacity for genocide.
If I wrote a Hulk movie:
Bruce Banner wakes up to find, to his horror, that the Hulk has gone on another rampage.
The Hulk wakes up to find, to his horror, that Bruce has started another fucking PhD.
Interaction at the local Chinese supermarket today
White Woman: Do you have those wraps that go around sushi?'
Chinese Auntie: This is a Chinese shop.'
WW: 'Wow, I was just asking.'
CA: 'Ok. I was just telling.'
*waves me to the counter*
Chinese Aunties will fuck you up....
If you *keep* having elections that are apparently the tipping point between fascism and democracy that's probably the fascism presenting you with a false choice.
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Leo Varadkar warns introducing a rent freeze could create a 'nightmare scenario', where landlords would be forced to sell their extra houses, which would then drive house prices down, allowing low-income people to get on the property ladder.
I know I’m going on a bit about Joss Wh*don but I want people to remember he created a whole universe that spoke Mandarin for the aesthetic with no actual Asians in it.
Joss Wh*don is another example of how the real ‘cancel culture’ is powerful white dudes quietly ruining careers without consequence and extorting their victims to silence.
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Capitalism isn’t capable of pulling you out of the climate disaster it put you into and these three fucks itching to destroy Indigenous land to build electric cars is a living demonstration of why.
'Poor people eating, living are...ruining the environment.'
White supremacist capitalism has been building the idea that population control, unsurprisingly in majority non-white countries, is the harsh but necessary step to save the environment.
‘I’m not transphobic I just have questions’
Yes but the answers are all in the studies you refuse to read and the testimonials from people you refuse to listen to because you’re so transphobic.
I just hope that people are seeing how propaganda doesn't have to stand up to scrutiny or be logical and consistent it simply needs to be omnipresent and constantly reinforced.
So many of the things people traditionally associate as warning signs of fascism (eg. soldiers marching in the streets) are actually at the point that it’s too fucking late.
Being neutral on starvation means people get starved. Being neutral on genocide means people get exterminated.
This is so you know what academics and journalists who are framing their neutrality as the high road are doing.
Fascists have been recruiting nerds who think they're too smart to be lured into fascism for quite some time.
It's not an incredible jump in ideology - those nerds already believe in their own moral/intellectual superiority and right to rule.
I think a lot of people were expecting the road to genocide would be a sharp turn that they could boldly object to rather than simply a continuation of the policies and ideas they already sign off on.
I mean white dudes will flip out that Naru can kill a Predator but 100% believe Tom Cruise became the best samurai in a week, Kevin Costner saved the Lakota…
If you want to know more about ‘scratch a TERF find a racist’ look at how many of the traits they claim for what constitutes a woman are heavily racialised in favour of whiteness.
Which also explains why they’re so comfortable with the support of white supremacists.
What also bothers me about these white dude fantasy showrunners who call on history to rationalise depicting misogyny and gendered violence is that they have zero capacity to reflect on it - other than to smugly note that it existed.
'The slaves actually didn't mind being slaves' is actually a white supremacist trope and WotC just slipping that into their new setting is another example of how they explicitly politicise their game while their white fans decry politicisation when you point it out.
I only speak a little bit of white person but I’m fairly sure:
‘Why has the debate on racism become so toxic?’
means
‘Why are those people talking back?’
'Violence is never the answer'
Please notice how often this is used to restrain victims from retaliating and not against abusers who instigated the violence.
‘I don’t believe in political violence!’
- White people who benefit from centuries of violence talking about the one time a white supremacist got hit in the head with an egg.
The ‘you should sit down with Nazis and reason with them’ is designed to imply marginalised people are *less* capable of reason than Nazis and need to be told to sit at a table the Nazis are waiting for them at.
You can’t reason with people whose objective is your annihilation.
Swine flu killed 150,000 people and Europe and America weren’t shamed into not eating bacon and ham.
Stop framing this as dirty Chinese eating unclean meat for white western consumption.
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Love the white people who use their POC acquaintances: ‘Well, I have an Asian friend who...’
We’re not fucking Pokémon to throw at people who criticise you.
Something to remember when they tell you it’s overpopulation that’s killing the planet.
It’s not just eugenics it’s telling you their lives are worth less than a billionaires momentary entertainment.
I studied abroad in New York.
In America, I discovered an ancient art of living.
You travel to Asia, translate a bunch of everyday phrases and concepts, filter it through orientalism then repackage it as some profound revelation you had.
JK Rowling: 'Cancel culture is a restriction of debate which causes writers to be more risk averse...'
Also JK Rowling: 'I'm suing a children's website into the ground as an example.'
Another example of how the cancel culture discourse is in fact designed to let actual abusers hide by reframing themselves as innocent victims who made the wrong jokes - and how and who spreads the mythology.
White employers: 'We have a ZERO tolerance for racism in our workplace. ZERO.'
White employers: 'That's not racism. Neither is that. That also. That one there is something else.'
If you demand peaceful protests from oppressed people because you hate violence but don't address the violence of their oppression then you don't hate violence you hate consequences.
‘Stop dehumanising billionaires’
Wait till you hear about the people who lobbied governments to sacrifice disabled people because their monies weren’t going up fast enough.
Don’t be tricked into thinking your rights were debated for or handed generously to you by oppressors because you were nice to them or voted for them.
Someone fought for them - they’re all written in blood.
People seem overly confident that they can identify fascists because they’ll step into the light and start marching.
But no, they’ll actually mar your understanding of fascism first, wrap it in liberatory language and terfs are a very clear example of how that works.
POC who migrate for any reason are ‘economic migrants’.
Meanwhile old rich white people make lists of the best places to exploit the wealth gap colonialism created.
‘If you call them racists they’ll become racist!’
Trust me if it worked this way I’d start calling racists ‘decent humans’ or ‘waterslides’ or something.
Right now is the time to watch history being rewritten and it isn’t done secretly in a dark room by devious historians.
It’s watching people take a colonial legacy, downplaying the role of its participants and punishing its victims when they speak of its abuses.
Seems like something has gone terribly terribly wrong when 'tax the wealth of people who have far too much' is more controversial a take than 'lets kill the elderly so the football season starts earlier'.
The smugness with which white people are jumping in with ‘actually the shooter is Asian’ tells us they 100% know the default is white and they’re more interested in their own exoneration than with the safety of victims.
'Stop forcing diversity into Star Trek!'
The literal guiding philosophy of Vulcans is Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.
It's what their insignia means you tools.
You know framing something as a debate is often just about falsely inflating the power held by oppressed people so their oppressors can freely attack them.
There is no ‘trans debate’.
White people love saying we should 'treat people as individuals' because:
1.) They understand they don't need to maintain whiteness as a coalition.
2.) Whiteness allows them to operate as individuals.
3.) They're fucking terrified of POC acting collectively.
White people claiming they 'disagree' with white supremacists but think they should be heard are actually just agreeing to the premise that white supremacy is a valid position.
They don't disagree at all.
Notice how whenever a white progressive politician is caught doing something racist, we’re told not to make a fuss or we’ll end up with a conservative politician instead.
This is the language of abuse - it’s whiteness making a threat.
Andrew Bolt leaving 'Melbourne' and going to the Mornington Peninsula feels like when your kid tells you they're running away forever and you find them in the garden behind a tree with a packet of chips and a backpack.
I know people want to pretend that JKR was quickly radicalised but please let’s not ignore that people were warned about the seeds of fascism like racism and antisemitism in her work a long time ago.
Let’s also not ignore how *common* fascist ideas are especially in fantasy.
We're going to hear a lot about how six Asian women being murdered was an isolated incident by a lone shooter - anything to detach this from the superstructure of misogynistic violence and anti-Asian racism.
Hound anyone who does this like they're accomplices.
It feels like the emphasis on Dahmer as a cunning, attractive genius is whiteness disavowing that cops ignored and basically helped him murder mostly Black victims.
When I say white people I’m not referring to all white people.
I’m actually referring specifically to you, reading ‘white people’ and frothing with rage.
Then writing a tweet about how generalising white people is racist.
I feel like whiteness clings to the idea that restaurants owned specifically by POC have to be dirty to be good because it lets them eat there while keeping a sense of cultural superiority about it.
Anyway it doesn’t sit well with me.
Tone and civility are heavily racialised.
A white men can talk about extermination and population control with a smile and be taken seriously.
POC can’t talk about basic justice without being considered angry.
The contagion of incivility: President Trump says undocumented immigrants want to “infest” the United States. His critics respond with vituperative words of their own.