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.
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It's really really not that hard, too. Like, just don't be a weird freak about things.
Aw fuck I'm out
EXACTLY! The magical negro trope runs that deep. We are both somehow inferior to them in all ways but also the key to their salvation? Like what the fuck libs? Pick one.
They’re doing a major disservice to themselves. They genuinely think that they can abuse a group endlessly and then seriously expect their support when the time comes. Very delusional.
lol I had a friend (no longer) back in college who tried to shush me and prepare me one time when were about to enter a gathering that included black people because he "knew how to talk to black people"
in my defense I will add that it pissed me off enough that I made sure to very enthusiastically talk to the people he was referring to, who ended up being Ethiopian exchange students. They were pretty racist tbh
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he really did a "I speak jive" in 2014
You mean the “friend” was racist, right?
The Ethiopian students were saying some pretty racist stuff about black americans is what I meant, but yes him too. My guess is that the Ethiopian students had discovered that a dash of racism is a quick and easy way to ingratiate yourself with white college students. It's a dark memory to be sure
I was hoping that wasn’t the case, but it was ambiguous. That’s unfortunate to hear.