Somewhat unrelated but I’m starting to lose my shit over this whole “oh shit white people too???” mentality. Racism I can wrap my head around but when supposedly non racist whites are saying “oh now that I can see myself in the victim it’s scary.”
Maybe I’m too autistic for this shit but it’s a sorry state for american imagination when you can’t imagine something unless the colors match up. Shit I can feel bad for street cats left outside in the snow because I too am warm-blooded and know what being cold feels like but you can’t feel bad for a murdered human unless their shade of blush is close enough to yours???
People really out here perceiving the world with the idea that epidermic colorways are separate species with completely separate destinies.
i saw this b.s. with ukraine.
people just straight up saying they cared more about ukrainian civilians displaced by violence than iraqi civilians displaced by violence, when the comparison of the moment was OIF.
certainly racism at work in the individual, but also the way stories are presented. dead and terrorized white people are humanized by the media. non whites are rarely respected in this way in the US and the framing of violence done to them is wrapped in spectacle (shock and awe) and notions of duty/safety while footage is rarely shown of them just being regular ass people with families and relateable values before they were vaporized by a $750K bomb.
i have been kinda spiralling about this reaction lately. like it’s just so blatant that no one cares unless you’re a white victim
Gotta be the mythical perfect victim.
and part of that is just. being white.
The biggest part.
the issue with white liberals is that ICE isn’t doing its job, it’s supposed to deport “illegal immigrants” but is instead shooting “legal civilized citizens”
Like they care if they’re “illegal” or even “immigrants”. Or rather, they might if we’re talking about an “illegal” immigrant from Norway.
#abolishthekkk after it burns a cross on the front lawn of a white couple
Oh, no, I’m sure that was just a misunderstanding. Probably just got the wrong house.
Abolish DHS
Abolish AmericaObama’s budgets not labeled and not blue as well
Blud will go down in history as the pioneer of the drone warfare and there’s nothing the libs can do about it except embrace war and genocides like they always do.
Please don’t nuke my reaction on the meme post lol
This was upsetting, but I think (read hope) the main reactions on these 2 is how absolutely transparently viewed they’ve been. Reading about the horrific things people in detention centers are subjected to, and sometimes die in, is also horrific but requires you to step into an empathetic mode that is more “work” than viscerally seeing the acts. The right has been trying to cut down on empathy for years, and with media pumping far away horrors and tweaking for American sensitivities, it seems that push has done wonders for their push. But they still can’t overcome seeing something just so evil to Americans.
This isn’t me saying that I am in the camp that needs to see it to feel that rage, but I think it’s what has really triggered this specific case. I earnestly hope that if this were any human beings being executed in the streets people would be just as infuriated.
Note: its (stupidly) going to be a while before Americans see something like this abroad to react anything other than mildly because of the atrocious nationalism that’s baked into us as kids.
