you ever find a piece of clothing and feel like you just stumbled upon an essential bit of your character design
Sex is wholesome.
Tell me I'm wrong. Go ahead!
You can't! I'm dying on this hill!
I want to metaphorically jump off a building and see who catches me. But at least I'm self aware enough to not do that.
I hate the spring
Because it smells like a schoolyard, like a rubber band about to snap, like unreachable expectations. I reeks of change and hope that sours like milk in the sun. It smells like an wild animal about to pounce on its vulnerable pray.
It makes me nauseous, it wets my socks, it burns my eyes and It looms over me like the inevitable end of all that is good.
Hypothesis: Those who are discriminated against see the people discriminating them (and or colonialising them) as the Most Racist.
Example: As a mexican, I was torn between the spanish conquistadors and the white Americans.
Considering the cultural an economical colonialism that the U.S is not so subtly imposing on so many countries, it kinda makes sense to me that they are the de facto bad guy to point at.
With regards to the question of: are they really worse than the other "flavors" of racist...
I don't know. How do you measure that? Number of dead poc? If the language of the people they tried to erase is still spoken today or not? Did they destroy records or history? Idk.
At what point does comparison become moot? Would you rather eat one poison apple or two poison apples? Is there an option where I get to live?
I feel like comparing racists to other racists is kinda like that. My biased queer woman of colour opinion on the matter is: You don't get to pat yourself on the back for being the "least terrible" and I don't owe you gratitude for not treating me worse.
Using other "more heinous" acts of racism to metaphorically wash your hands of your own crime... it feels icky to me. Its like instumentalising the suffering of somebody else's victims to placate your own victims.
I'm no scholar, but that doesn't sit right with me.
I cry for the butcher
Gold silver and copper
cake my tongue
No harm can ever come from
my mother's praying hands
My filthy mouth -
I harmed myself
Orange wedge lip
Clenched ivory threat
Pulled the trigger with my tongue
Blood orange
Her saintly hands
Iām sorry - a million times over
I say to her
And when i finally cry
It is not for the lamb.
Just saw another "if you hurt people because of your faith you don't really have any faith" post, and wanted to point out once again that this weird thing we do where we pretend that "real" religion is incapable of doing harm isn't doing us any favors. Of course people with "real" faith can hurt people! Christians beat their queer kids because they have real faith that being queer gets you tortured forever after you die, and that beating kids is a 100% god-approved activity! India's beef vigilantes kill their Muslim neighbors because they have real faith that cows are sacred animals that shouldn't be killed!
Stop this No True Scotsman shit! All it does is cede the moral high ground in every situation to religious belief, automatically agreeing that religion makes you a better person, and anything that makes you a worse person can't be religion.
Honestly, i have 0 trust in Christian priests. Like, these mfs literally read the whole ass fuckin' Bible and had no problem with it? Decided to preach it even? Suspicious.
Fun fact: without enrichment animals can suffer from depression and anxiety.
It's me. I'm animals. Work is not enriching enough
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