i think we need to stop focusing on telling little girls they need to be “empowered” & instead teach them about chaotic mirth, hijinks, & becoming complete rascals
One thing that’s vitally important to remember is that feeling “weirded out” is not a form of harm. It is a completely normal part of socializing. It is the feeling of encountering something unfamiliar. In order to be a kind person, you must learn to how to distinguish between “harmful” and “weird.” And then you must accept the weird.
No guys don’t worry this young woman’s celebrity is going to be totally different. No yeah we’re going to do it right this time, she’s totally not going to be exploited at all. No i promise it’s different this time this teenager is totally in charge of her career, she’s not made to do anything. Yeah we promise we’re going to make sure this rapid rise in fame and complete stripping of privacy is not going to do any long term damage this time, she’s going to be totally fine this time
i hate when i get so sleepy at the end of hanging out like hey sorry gang unfortunately they tolt me its time for me to put on my nightgown and light my candle now
Average Gaza social media user: Trying to find a place to keep my loved ones safe tonight, the bombing never stops and the air is filled with ash everywhere I go. If you receive this message please remember that the Palestinian people remain forever strong and will continue to fill the world with beauty and love no matter what is thrown at us.
Average Israeli social media user: Just finished brunnnnch with the besties 🤪, did you guys know that the average Palestinian IQ is 5 and that all Palestinian art has been scientifically proven to be worthless?
attempts to rationalise settler fears about the “brutality” of indigenous people, to position it as actually really nuanced and complicated this time I promise, is as old as settler colonialism itself. you people will reblog anything if it means having another opportunity to be racist to indigenous people
decolonization doesn’t actually necessitate the deportation of the settler population but historically many of them have freely chosen to leave on their own rather than lose their position of supremacy
I’ve went back and added a tag for receipts posts about popular blogs that support Palestinian genocide: #zionist garbage
Blogs with genocide apologism receipts listed there include
littlegoythings
progressivejudaism
jewish-privilege
jewishpolitics
tikkunolamorgtfo
this-is-not-jewish
prismatic-bell
magnetothemagnificent
didyoumeanxianity
the-library-alcove
spacelazarwolf
Future receipts posts will also be given the same tag. The tag will continue to mainly list popular and innocuous-seeming blogs, rather than accounts that have obvious right-wing shit in the url itself
“She’s still alive!” cry the civilians and the medical crews who extracted a girl from the debris of a house demolished during the occupation’s bombardment last night, which marked one of the worst nights since the beginning of the war!
many people have said it but bears repeating again:
Palestinian liberation calls for a 1 state solution under which allpeople are equal under both under the law and in practice.
In order to have peace the genocide, apartheid, and occupation must end. Settler colonialism must end. Second class citizenry must end. All Palestinians imprisoned must be released. Reparations must be made to Palestinians who have been affected by both current events and historical, from the Nakba in 1948 to today. Everyone who participated in the facilitation of the apartheid and the violence of the apartheid and occupation required to maintain the oppressive regime must be held accountable. Palestinians must be granted the right to return to their homes.
The idea that Palestinian liberation = carrying out a genocide on Israelis is nothing more than baseless, racist, orientalist fearmongering (and, to an extent, pure projection) that serves to justify the current genocidal regime and the apartheid having been maintained for decades. One people’s freedom does not threaten another people. People are fearmongering over a hypothetical scenario (the same fearmongering used in South Africa; both during the reconstruction era following the abolition of slavery & also against abolitionists while slavery was still legal in the United States; in regards to the North American indigenous population; and so on) while an actual genocide is going on.
the only way to real actual peace, safety, and security is through the complete liberation of the Palestinian people, not the continued maintenance of the current regime or the apartheid that led to this current moment in time. apartheid is inherently violent; oppression is inherently violent. colonialism is inherently violent. if YOUR ‘safety’ is dependent on the oppression, displacement, and murder of OTHER PEOPLE then your conditions are not and will never be safe.
