Once my boyfriend told me: “You’re not a burden. A burden is something you’re forced to carry against your will. I freely choose to be a part of your life and that means you aren’t a burden to me.” I’m passing it on in case some of you need to be reminded of that.
“europeans are soooo much more enlightened and anti-racist than americans” haha sooo true, quick question, how do you feel about romani people?
Europe has types of racism americans haven’t even heard about
Against people you didnt even know you could be racist against, on top of the racism against the people are usually racist against.
mantis shrimp racism, they see colors we didn’t even know existed
There’s this post going around for an art piece that is a racist sign in Iceland.
The sign says “Any thefts will be prosecuted.” but not in either Icelandic or English, the two most common languages in Iceland. Instead, it’s written fifteen times in the most common immigrant languages.
And it is a -DAMNING- piece of art. ‘Cause if you don’t speak the languages on it you just kind of glance at it and look away, unaware of it’s true meaning. Just like people look away from racism that doesn’t affect them, personally, because they’re unaware of it. It isn’t part of their experience.
It feels genuinely surreal seeing someone I have no connection to speak so highly of my art thank you @steampunkette 🥹
But back to OP’s point, Europeans are a lot less likely to wave fascist flags and be very vocally racist the way Americans will do but to me that just makes us more insidious. It’s largely unspoken but forever present and constantly denied. We tell ourselves we aren’t racist because we refuse to see it. The people being discriminated against aren’t just POC, it’s everyone who isn’t the right type of white as well.
hey netizens! i’m not sure how many people are aware, but youtube’s been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can’t be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate
BUT, if you’re a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard to get rid of it!
