leftist tiktoks because there are pronouns in the constitution
time to play everyone's favorite game read the constitution until there is a pronoun we are you a white person who feels frustrated when you talk to your racist family members about systemic racism and anti-racism do you feel like you're talking to a wall because you're just not getting through and they're denying they're deflecting their gaslighting and then you just get so frustrated that you feel like it's hopeless like there's no point why am i even talking to them about it they don't get it nothing is changing it's not working do you feel like that sometimes if you do i want to tell you two things today number one is remember that everyone has the capacity to change everyone has the capacity to change so do not rule them out you may just be planting a seed you just may be planting a seed with them give that seed a chance to grow okay number two is give them the same grace that we have given to you you didn't know everything that you know today two years ago three years ago five years ago ten years ago you're just now coming into this knowledge about systemic racism and anti-racism yet we have given you grace so give that same grace to your racist family members okay she's really good okay everybody has been blowing my phone up about this so let's talk about it apparently there's a big youtuber named like pewdie whatever i don't know his name but he made like a reaction video to one of my tick tocks making fun of like my nails making fun of my signs with his dog and then like i guess at one point mocking my voice so how do i feel i feel like it was very weird and very unnecessary but at the same time i wasn't surprised i'm used to it been a big issue in the deaf community i've been trying to like normalize and put it out that using nails while signing is normal like it's okay but then a big creator comes on here and puts us like a million steps back so it's very frustrating i feel like if any other hearing person was telling this story but they had long nails on but they didn't need a sign to get their pointer call he would have listened to the full story and maybe even had a laugh but because i had to sign to communicate and i had long nails on he like stopped the video after like two seconds didn't even listen to the story and then after that proceeded to like make fun of me signing with his doll maybe he didn't know i was doing sign language maybe he just didn't like my long nails that's okay a lot of people don't like them that's fine they're not for you if that was the case you should just be like oh i do not like her nails and just skip the video but instead he chose to watch the video stop it and was like oh her nails are too much and then he proceeded to like mock me doing sign language which showed he knew i was doing sign we also knew he knew because as soon as people was calling him out after he posted it he went back and removed my clip he didn't remove it but he put like a sound over it so you couldn't see what he was saying about me which i feel like made the situation worse you really could have just like addressing be like my bad i didn't know she was signing i just didn't like the nails and we really would have been fine but no you decided to like go back edit it out and sweep it under the rug like nothing happened baby it don't work like that over here if you made a mistake admit the mistake you don't just get to like mock deaf people who have already been struggling for years with people like you and then like go about your day like nothing happened and then to top it off since my video was so cringy so weird you couldn't even watch it for more than two seconds you went ahead and put in your thumbnail i really try to give him like the benefit of the doubt too like maybe he really just doesn't know maybe he's like really unaware even though it's 2022 and like there's deaf people in sign language all over the media but the mapping of like the sign and the voice and then going back and editing it out and then putting me on a thumbnail i was like oh he definitely has to know but i mean we all live and learn if he did not know before he definitely knows now i'm a finesser a slick talker and a [ __ ] snatcher after i smoke this wood you finna hit this blade welcome back to raiding anti-communism and us media we're going to be looking at this kid's show gomez one episode in particular it's called girl meets communism not communism communism i assume communism breaks the haze code somehow a lot of this shows that there are these three kids and that they're friends that's pretty much it and their teacher is the middle one's dad these kids decide to work together on a test and they get a perfect score and the teacher her dad is like no you've got that as a communist sect that is not the great you're getting the exact quote is an a divided by three is a c what in what in what world he then uses this as a jumping off point to go into a poorly written tirade about individualism i actually had the displeasure of seeing this episode with my cousin when it first came out i was like what is happening this episode was actually nominated for an award by the writers guild of america they read the word communism they were like [ __ ] that's good i want to talk about this episode in particular because a very clear example of pushing capitalist ideology onto children and people in my comments were saying that doesn't happen in terms of reading this this is like a two out of ten this is like an awful like it's just bad only i'd be like did the government pay for this dude it's too bad there's no way anyone paid for this i came here to make one thing [ __ ] clear tell me somebody's colorist without saying they're colorist because this one's gonna be a doozy so i was in a really racist pwi a few years ago and i had this friend and we're gonna call her lala and before you ask lala was puerto rican and she was like very light complexion like kind of like zendaya's skin color so me and lala were pretty cool with each other and we did sports together too so one time we were at a relay track meet so for those of you that are not familiar with track that means that we're versing like multiple teams not just one or two so there was this team i'm pretty sure they were from philly and they had like a lot of cute chocolate men femi so my friend wanted to go up to them and talk to them and get some of their numbers and at the time i was like i'll be your moral support but i'm not going to be talking to them because i was so insecure that i knew me as a dark-skinned girl and a pwi was always going to get rejected feel me so we go over there and turns out those guys were actually giving me more attention than her so one of them gave me one of their snapchats and invited me to some party that they were having later that week but like they didn't really pay my other friend no mind or invite her anywhere anything like that so we leave and for the rest of the day my friend did not talk to me and then a few days went past and she was not talking to me so i thought she might have felt some type of way if she thought i was gonna go to a party without her so i told her like even though they invited me i'm not gonna go if it makes you feel some type of way you know what i mean so she responded and she was like nah i just don't like your energy because you're acting like you're all that just because some ugly guys from philly were interested in you so i was like never did i act like i was all that so she was like yes you are you never get attention and now that one or two guys weren't interested in you you want to act brand new so i was like girl what what was i doing to act brand new and she would not answer that simple question i kept asking her that and she would not have an answer because i wasn't acting brand new so me and her going back and forth through text and then she says some really really crazy [ __ ] she was like oh you need to humble yourself because if me and you were to ask all the guys in the school who they would pick they would definitely pick me over you so i was like what makes you think that and she was like because i'm pretty sure they would pick me over a girl who looks like a burnt banana so after she said that i was like oh nah and then me and her stop being friends and then she recruited a bunch of people to hate me with her yeah so crazy how far would you be willing to go as an entire racist ally hi my name is zai and i'm anti-racist media coach and i recommend black films and black books i'm not about to tell you to do some crazy stuff when someone wants to lose weight they invest in a fitness coach or gym membership when you would like to improve your mental health you invest in a therapist so are you taking your entire racist ally journey as seriously do you think you still need to improve your antares ally journey you probably still need to improve your knowledge in entire racism if you ask yourself questions like what can i do to fight against racism if you do not know how to daily implement entire racism in your life if you don't know what showing up as an antaresis allah authentically means then you should definitely invest in an anti-racist coach i just created a safe space a community for everyone to be able to talk about black books and black films where you can ask my advice and opinions directly we also have monthly black book club and black film club q a's with black actors and black filmmakers and black authors and free in person and online events as well as premieres of black films all of this just for 9.5 a month this is valid until the 8th of august so don't miss out one unfortunate thing when i came out as non-binary is that my uterus didn't now whenever i get my period it just feels like when you keep getting texts from the same wrong number you know like dude i promise i'm not the guy you're looking for i just feel like all the language around periods is so gendered it's hard to come up with a completely genderless way to conceptualize it you know like at least if i were a dude i think maybe i could get kind of macho about it i could be like time to blast out another would-be person not this time pal but totally genderless i mean the closest i've come is like these little leggy's got a skedaddle you know just assume the form of the most genderless being of all time a middle school math teacher with fun ties i'm not using the name elliott page why not that ain't what they mama named them i'm going by what they mama call them what's on the birth certificate that's what i'm using so you have a problem with people being referred to by a name that was not given at birth yes i do but you call jesus jesus what is his name that's not the name his mother gave him how do you know to start there's no letter in the hebrew alphabet that makes the j sound his birth name is yeshua which means to rescue or deliverer well we speak english that's why we call him jesus sure about that the english equivalent of yeshua would be joshua i'm still calling him jesus you don't have a problem with name changes you just have a problem with trans people why have i never seen an ai that's a man why is siri and alexa and my so much of our technology is gendered our voice assistants in our customer service chatbots tend to be coded as female it's not an accident that our technologies that function effectively as caregivers or secretaries are designed to have female voices design and software have historically served existing power structures our voice technologies embodied a gendered fantasy of women occupying subservient roles what does it mean to imagine alternative feminist interface feminism here does not mean for women it means from a feminist framework this should include a range of justice centered approaches to interaction design including feminist human computer interaction hci postcolonial computing intersectional design gender hci and design justice i think that america is the bad place every day that who was the worst white ally in american history when we think of white americans that see themselves as allies of the black community the examples of those who do more harm than good or endless and this is because a lot of them are not willing to learn and put in the work to actually advance the cause of racial justice but others just simply have ulterior motives but whatever the reason none are worse than this man jim jones jones was a preacher who started his own racially integrated church in the 1950s his church actually attracted black people more than black led churches because of his unmatched level of social and political activism he was actively involved in racial justice organizing he ran social programs for incarcerated youth and he and his wife were the first white family in indiana to adopt a black baby his congregation called the people's temple was about 80 percent black and most of this group were black women specifically but in the 70s he moved his congregation to guyana in pursuit of a beautifully racially inclusive society and this is where things start to get dark jones congregation started looking more like a cult as people were forced to stay in the compound even as resources dwindled and the living experience declined severely and after being found out jones coerced almost a thousand of his followers most of which were black to drink poison flavor aid one of the largest murder suicide events in world history the common phrase don't drink the kool-aid is in reference to this event jones was easily the worst white ally of all time and has a warning of the dangers of charismatic narcissistic leaders who pray in the hope of marginalized people to serve their own sinister interests share with anyone who might learn something new and follow for more all me to you right me this entire year i've been seeing an influx of people of color just really finding their footing in ireland especially black women i'm one of those people of course i don't know how to properly explain my love for ireland when i am there i am exactly who i want to be i am the best version of myself i am not stressed i'm never angry i feel such peace and contentment and i think it's because it's the only country i've ever traveled to where i feel like i don't have to worry about things i'm not scared of the police there i'm not fearful of a mass shooting i personally have not experienced racism there and that's not to say that other people haven't but that's my own personal experience the people are so nice i feel like i've known everyone my entire life my first time there i had just a life conversation with the woman who was cleaning the bathroom stalls at the airport i want every black person to know what it's like to just be able to simply exist because in ireland i can live without fear so the u.s state department and corporate media consistently tell us that venezuela is a dictatorship with rigged elections and that's the reason we need to constantly destabilize their government and hold them under a sanction regime that the un has called devastating to human rights however just last year documents obtained via a freedom of information act found that the u.s
has been directly meddling in venezuela's electoral process since at least 2013. usaid and the ned arms of the u.s state department have funneled at least 300 000 to various ngos in venezuela that money has then been used to launch social media campaigns in favor of the right-wing venezuelan opposition as well as help them strategize their electoral campaigns a review of the program boasted at how successful it was in helping the opposition to win a majority in the national assembly election in 2015 because even though maduro's rigging the elections the opposition is still allowed to win i guess and that's why the u.s needs to sanction them and rig their elections imperialism makes a lot of sense uh what is one thing you can tell a white person that'll make them glitch that until you admit that you're inherently racist if for no other reason than the system that you're born into was set up and upheld to advance you while holding others back you're not truly ready to become an active anti-racist you have to acknowledge what you're against in order to deconstruct it have you ever heard about the black non-binary episcopal saint who refused to sit in the back of the bus 20 years before rosa parks described intersectionality decades before it was coined and whose book was called the bible of the early civil rights movement that's right i'm talking about pauly murray first the note on paulie there's much debate on which pronouns to use but they used all of them so i will as well paulie was assigned female at birth and tried to obtain testosterone in the early 1940s and 50s but was routinely denied he was arrested for not sitting in the back of the bus in 1940 and coined the term jane crow to describe the intersectional nature of oppression among black women they then became a lawyer and argued many prominent civil rights cases she then founded the national organization for women with ruth bader ginsburg and was ordained the first black woman episcopalian priest and granted sainthood shortly after her death he wrote prolifically about being a male trapped in a woman's body they never really decided on pronouns and decided to switch things up often she was just trying to be herself in a time where that was hard to do i think we could all learn from that can anyone explain to me how the hey mama stereotype is anything other than white women doing a gross caricature of black lesbian masculinity and then calling it toxic quickly quickly if you're blue and you don't know where to go why don't you go where fashion sits putting other it's different types who wear a deco pants with straps and cut away coat perfect fits putting on the ritz no i don't this is the closest you're gonna get because i am not indigenous i'm white and both of these designs are donation designs with every sale i make a monetary donation towards scholarships for indigenous students as well as indigenous led environmental advocacy if you want actual indigenous designs support indigenous creators if you have a favorite creator leave a comment i'm gonna take a quick break from writing my column to quickly state here that these cool perks of working at a tech company are you being exploited i'm going to quote here from a book called work work work labor class alienation by a scholar named michael yates yates points out that modern industry is organized by the relentless drive for productivity and in the tech industry uh this is hidden by things that make it appear that where you work is your home free catered meals gyms massage tables they make work enjoyable but they also keep you there for long hours don't put your hands on people who are having an autistic meltdown even if it's self-injurious don't put your [ __ ] hands on autistic or neurodivergent people who are having a meltdown even if they're harming themselves don't [ __ ] do it don't restrain them don't hold them down don't put your [ __ ] hands on us don't hi so i'm going to say the quiet part out loud do you remember how the war on drugs disproportionately affected the black community and how black men were jailed for a really long time for like minor offenses what people don't understand is that roe v wade yes it'll impact white women but they are going to disproportionately jail black women bipoc women will be affected but disproportionately i can telling you black women will be affected white women might have to face fines you might even go to jail but you're gonna have shorter sentences they might put us in jail for life because they don't want us to keep having babies they might overreach and say a miscarriage is an abortion they will do anything and everything to ensure that black women get punished yo can we stop like making people famous for having the worst opinions known to mankind can we start making people famous that have good opinions for once can can we do that why do we keep making these people they're like women are bad like famous stop stop let's stop doing that i'm going [ __ ] mental you can in fact give homeless people money it is okay to give them literal money uh your leftover mcdonald's or the protein bar at the gas station is very kind but um they are human beings and they do need money they do need autonomy to make choices with what they purchase they need to pay for the gym membership where they are able to shower maybe they are saving up to get a hotel night stay maybe they need to buy something so that they can get identification they need bus fare it's okay to give them money they need it they need money money is good um if you're really really against money you could give them things like a trial travel sized um personal care goods um you could give them money uh i don't know money i don't money it's okay you can give them money so yeah and even if they do buy blank or blank they still need enough money to buy blank and blank and then still buy food i should not have to say this but when people post videos of like their dogs and their cats and they put text over the video to pretend that that's what their dog or their cat is saying and they use aave in that text that you are appropriating a language that doesn't belong to if you are not black and that that is violent like i've seen videos of dogs like doing something and then the text over the video is like i'm gonna go [ __ ] some [ __ ] up like pretending like that's what the dog is saying okay i don't understand this i don't understand why y'all don't get it like you just can't use certain words you just can't use certain language it just does not belong to you like why is it hard why are people going through loopholes and jumping over oceans to try and use language that just is not yours and what's so frustrating about it is like recently i wrote my framing paper in aave a good chunk of my favorite paper was written in aave that was difficult that was really [ __ ] difficult to integrate that language into an academic space where i have been told subconsciously and directly that it is silly to talk like that it is unprofessional to talk like that it is unnecessary to talk like that why why why why is it so difficult for me to use language that belongs to me but other people get to put it on and take it off and put it on and take it off is it it's not that hard to understand it's about care it's about concern it's about checking in with yourself and what are you participating in and i'm just over it it's it's the lack of critical thought it's just the lack of critical thought
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