I never realized how deep racists’ obsession with Black people went until I began voicing support for Palestine of all things. I just kinda assumed the only real targets of Israel and its supporters were Arabs, most Palestinians, and that I could be this untouchable ally or whatever. I was wrong.
These last few weeks have made me even more aware of how much imperialists weaponize anti-Blackness. Even when Black people aren’t directly involved in a conflict, we’re targets. While talking about Israel with some friends online, I basically said that child death is more tragic than soldiers dying while performing their job (i.e. indiscriminate killing, in the IDF’s case). I made this one supposedly apolitical person mad but they pretended not to be as they made edgy jokes about the Arab slave trade and buck breaking. The shit he said was so cruel that I had to break off all contact to preserve my sanity.
Even the people pretending to be leftists are using the genocide in Palestine to be racist to Black people. Lee Fang literally thinks that BLM is like the Israeli government. There’s also currently a post on TrueAnon complaining about how there isn’t a Palestinian Lives Matter, how unfair it is that libs just looooooove Black people so much, blah, blah, blah, wah, wah, wah—all while completely disregarding the many, many ways this country intentionally brutalizes and kills us. It’s fucking tiring, man. I’m so sick of this shit. Like, fine, we get it, you don’t like BLM or Black people—how about LBPFA (leave black people fucking alone) instead?
I never asked to be the permanent focal point of every awful loser’s convoluted political worldview. Literally everything I do triggers psychos. Honestly, sometimes I want to be reincarnated as a rock and just chill without any thoughts.
The cultural laundering machine loves to reappropriate black culture (and a lot of queer black culture at that) and language and claim it was "American" culture. From rap to cowboys to any food in America that has any flavor - none of it came from the white plague.
Sometimes I think to myself, I wish my white ancestors contributed something positive to the world and built a real culture to pass down... Instead I was taught self loathing and that mayo is an individual condiment and not an ingredient in more elaborate food.
there is no white culture and there never was. There is an American culture, a Dutch culture etc
I'm part Dutch. We don't have a cuisine or music that I know of and I equate food and music as the bedrock of a culture. We've got windmills and irrigation techniques that hold back the ocean... Cool I guess. But then we've got Calvinist protestantism and a lot of awful exploitation around the globe... Expanding capitalism around the globe through the Dutch East India Corp... Making a casino like market based on fucking flowers... Wooden shoes. Yeah, the Dutch are particularly vile throughout history, and there's little bits of it that have embedded into American culture and certainly made it worse, notably modern evangelical christian nationalism.
I've had traditional Dutch food. It's not good but it is a food tradition
there's nice and interesting aspects of Dutch culture
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