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(DIR) Post #AI1JW76PvBu48tnYEi by Yemaya@spinster.xyz
2022-04-01T16:50:56.907914Z
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Still think #WillSmith overreacted to #ChrisRocks #coonery #buffoonery???WELL... here is a pERFECT example of why he did what he did.. because you see YOU CONSTANTLY COME FOR BLACK WOMEN AND OUR HAIR with insults and demonstrations of hate... mixed race or not, you WILL find a way to insult us about it (unless you are the preferred mixed as in looks as close to white as possible OF COURSE)... This video with Raven-Symone is PROOF... Just take a look at the comments and so MANY about her hair alone!Raven has her own style and always has... She can't even be HER authentic self without being torn down to the ground.the IRONY here is this video is about what happened at the Oscars when Will slapped the UNNECESSARY SHIT OUT OF Chris MOCK for the same reasons... and whats worst is NO ONE is making the connection to their own #hypocrisyhttps://youtu.be/f6hA_hlZNi0
(DIR) Post #AI1JW7hHi7OTzF2zhY by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-01T23:13:59.883620Z
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@Yemaya This is a sincere question and I’m genuinely trying to understand your position. But I’m not sure why the Will Smith slap is being framed as a racial issue when both Will Smith and Chris Rock are black? I read the scene more as a situation of male violence and possessiveness of women. Personally, I think I would find it more humiliating to have my husband slap someone and start screaming at them in front of a large awards ceremony than I would by a nasty, unfunny joke (although both scenarios would be pretty awful to experience). And then the video went viral for everyone to watch and dissect. Had Will Smith left it alone, Chris Rock’s comments would have been buried and forgotten by the end of the night. To me, it seems like the real victim in this was Jada Pinkett, who was publicly humiliated not once but twice in the space of 30 seconds, and has had her alopecia and sex life continuously discussed for the past week. What part makes this a racial issue? The audience reaction against Will Smith? Chris Rock being insensitive and upholding western beauty standards as well as mocking someone with a medical condition? Does it just serve as a reminder to other black women when people have made rude comments about their hair? All or none of the above?
(DIR) Post #AI1SN4t7gUrgFvLWtc by TheWitchBitch@spinster.xyz
2022-04-02T00:24:01.196977Z
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@GCat @Yemaya Sight diversion: That look Jada gave Will totally spurred him on. The whole dynamic was a mess to watch.
(DIR) Post #AI1SN5NxppXDnZm9y4 by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-02T00:53:12.389590Z
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@TheWitchBitch @Yemaya After re-watching the clip, I see what you mean and don’t really know what to make of it all. I’ve always really liked Will Smith so it is a bit sad to watch unfold.
(DIR) Post #AI1V4vSiI6Offi1t5M by TheWitchBitch@spinster.xyz
2022-04-02T01:22:51.074500Z
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@GCat @Yemaya same. I had no idea he was such a mess. The Scientology, the Scientology School they opened and paid for, the vomiting after having casual sex with women phase (that was from his own autobiography)
(DIR) Post #AI3mJIzBiK5ADja6vA by Yemaya@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T03:44:35.144374Z
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@TheWitchBitch @GCat So I went to answer your question, but i wanted to answer it in open post because whenever is it ever NOT about race in this country?
(DIR) Post #AI3rkBUYBVGUZEt4Vc by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T04:46:55.709520Z
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@Yemaya @TheWitchBitch I read through your other responses. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.
(DIR) Post #AI3zTIlIhTr3pGBOCm by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T06:13:30.968916Z
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@Yemaya @TheWitchBitch To answer your question if it is not rhetorical: I am also a racial minority and I live in a very white area. And while I have encountered racial prejudice (typically in ways that are casual and never acknowledged as racism), it would be a lie for me to claim that race and racism have played any significant role in my life trajectory. So based on my own personal experience, I really can’t agree that everything in this country is about race, when other things like family connections, wealth, education, neighborhood, friend choices, health status, have been more obvious influences in my life and the lives of my peers. Of course, I do not speak for anyone but myself, and anti-black racism is a different type of racism entirely to what I have experienced.
(DIR) Post #AI4ZV3djUWuzr2mOYa by Yemaya@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T08:05:47.056985Z
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@GCat @TheWitchBitch Well as you've said, you're from a different racial minority so "you can't agree," but that doesn't change any facts. It is literally built into every facet of American society so it cannot be denied.
(DIR) Post #AI59kJIz7vln8KeC4O by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T19:43:21.501198Z
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@Yemaya @TheWitchBitch Here’s my issue with this. Your premise that racism is baked into American society and can’t be denied has become accepted en masse by most of the educated and managerial class, and the policy decisions these people are implementing in order to “correct” this problem are actively making race relations deteriorate. Framing the problem this way is generating statistically worse outcomes for young black people especially in education, violent crime, and health. These have all been problems in the past but over the past decade they have gotten much worse. If the attempts to correct the problem are making these metrics increasingly bad, then perhaps all of the initial assumptions need to be re-examined.
(DIR) Post #AI5F2Ap3u4NNoAzKfA by Ausenseiter@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T20:11:10.028995Z
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@GCat @Yemaya @TheWitchBitch "If the attempts to correct the problem are making these metrics increasingly bad, then perhaps all of the initial assumptions need to be re-examined."Couldn't it rather be that the way the PPMC/Political & Professional Managerial Class are addressing racism that need to be re-examined, not the assumptions that it's baked in?
(DIR) Post #AI5F2BUXPrYLsoOSJM by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T20:42:33.282079Z
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@Ausenseiter @Yemaya @TheWitchBitch Because I don’t think that either these new policies, or the assumptions that were used to justify them, should be treated as sacred. At least not if you are serious about improving things.
(DIR) Post #AI5FGAxwATE4J3og0O by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T20:45:08.704827Z
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@Ausenseiter I don’t think that either these new policies, or the assumptions that were used to justify them, should be treated as sacred. At least not if you are serious about improving things.
(DIR) Post #AI5Mp8frNZDT0uynaa by Ausenseiter@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T21:25:57.142241Z
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@GCat I hear you. I agree. We should be able to examine everything. Not allowing that is what has led us to the censored/self-censored world we live in today.That's also, I think, easier said than done, especially when it strikes 'where one lives'. For example, we should be able to question/re-examine whether it's true women have been oppressed for millennia. Buuut... I'm probably not going to bother spending much time on that — there's going to have to be a compelling case made up front for me to do so. So I was just wanting to point to what I see as a real and material difference between wanting to re-examine the 'racism is baked in' vs. the 'what is being done about it'.
(DIR) Post #AI5Mp9DtL2REiStydM by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T22:09:53.513121Z
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@Ausenseiter I think these broad statements like “women have been oppressed for millennia” need to be qualified with a lot more information. How were they oppressed? Which cultures and which time period? Why were they oppressed? What can an individual woman do to improve her situation and those around her? (This question is the controversial one that people are afraid of asking.) If we implement a solution, what will the consequences of be? Once a problem has been well defined and understood, it is easier to come up with larger scale solutions that actually work instead of implementing something that looks good on paper but makes things worse.
(DIR) Post #AI5NnlWc3sLqsmYzYW by mystik@shitposter.club
2022-04-03T22:20:51.490887Z
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@GCat @Ausenseiter Since women exist they are oppressed. A woman exists?, she's oppressed. No matter time, race, culture, country... Got XX genes? Oppressed. How are women ALWAYS oppressed? They are oppressed by reality because it's too large to fit in their little brains that are already full of confusing emotions.
(DIR) Post #AI5UmMQGbaqOQ0s8qu by Ausenseiter@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T23:27:24.835164Z
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@GCat Yes, of course. I think women’s oppression has indeed been investigated and well-document in precisely the ways you describe. It was a broad statement by way of example, simply to suggest that all ‘assumptions’ are not equally worthy of revisiting simply because some have already been exhaustively examined (or at least more exhaustively examined than others). Which is not to say re-examination shouldn’t always be a live issue. i.e. at bottom, I agree with the principle that everything should be open to investigation and discussion.
(DIR) Post #AI5VBUtuDmHxx6ioM4 by GCat@spinster.xyz
2022-04-03T23:43:34.871376Z
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@Ausenseiter I think my point here is: how much do we truly know? Over the past couple years, there have been many things that I took for granted as assumptions not worth revisiting. Yet as soon as I did start looking, I found many conflicting pieces of information that forced me to draw conclusions that are largely not establishment approved. This is not merely a theoretical exercise - unless we are continually revisiting our assumptions, it is easy for those assumptions to be manipulated in ways that are harmful. Even your example of women being oppressed over time has been twisted to “women are oppressed because of gender”, which has now lead to “trans women need access to womens spaces.”
(DIR) Post #AI84PVO7i1eqv5q9ke by Yemaya@spinster.xyz
2022-04-05T05:13:23.253741Z
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@GCat @TheWitchBitch I mean you can have whatever issue you want. I don't get to choose what issue I wish to have, because everyone else's issue with me is always the colour of my skinI think it is literally asking me to gaslight myself to pretend that if I "just dont say it, then it wouldnt be so"And to prove to you, not that it isnt already obvious, that everything is about race in the United States, especially with respect to Black people, let me point out how it absolutely bewilders me how they didnt put #BlackAmericans in this supposed "Anti-Asian Hate Bill"You mean ALL of those Black people they hung from trees for centuries.. all of the lynchings, the public lynchings and otherwise, killing 17 yr old boys walking with Skittles and 12 yr old boys playing in parks dont warrant the protections that OTHER people do because WHY? BECAUSE PERHAPS THEY DONT SEE MY HUMANITYThat's why.. And why do you think that is? Because of my race.. the people who built this country are constantly terrorized, even by audacious foreigners and illegal immigrants, and THEY get federally protected and we, Black people, can just fuck ourselves I suppose.So it appears they don't have the stomach to even consider "policies" for Black people.Because any other "policies" you are referring to are overrun by people who end up being just as racist as the next white person. Just ask the Black people who lived in Hawaiian Gardens. There are no policies for NOR by Black people. THEY STILL OWE AFRICAN AMERICANS REPARATIONS. They haven't owed up to ONE promise.
(DIR) Post #AI84PWeozQborAf0Pw by Yemaya@spinster.xyz
2022-04-05T05:19:24.604632Z
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@GCat @TheWitchBitch See, they like to gaslight Black Americans and pretend like they don't do things to us. The FBI even came after Billie Holiday and warned her NOT to perform this songIf a "country isn't doing anything to these people," why would the FBI.. THE FBI need to warn any Black woman about exposing their hatred for us#StrangeFruit have been hanging from American trees for centuries.https://youtu.be/-DGY9HvChXk