Ethnic Minorities and People of Color

Anyway, I don't remember where I was going with this. Just some thought as my worldview is developing. Men of color are targeted by the state too even if they're men, who historically have systematic power.

And thus is an example of why intersectionality exists.

“Two cops stopped me. They walked out with their hands on their guns, and then they asked me to see my ID,” Townes recounted.

Gotta be ready for some action because someone is supposedly walking on the wrong side of the road... wtf

Frieren's author(s) I think got too far into the meta. They were trying to subvert tropes in other series where demons can be good/be redeemed by returning to classic "Our demons are just evil, actually."

No matter what your intentions, though, as soon as you make a "race" of ontologically evil, sentient beings, it will devolve into racist stereotypes. Tolkien fell into the same trap. I think the worst was Gary Gygax. He had colonialist, white supremacist, genocidal beliefs and he incorporated those beliefs into a game that became synonymous with fantasy. After decades, these tropes have spread, been subverted/remixed/parodied/etc. to the point people no longer recognize where these tropes originated. Unless you're among the groups targeted by these tropes. Then it's abundantly clear where these ideas came from.

Russians have been experiencing this with people calling them "orcs." Jews are constantly subjected to the blood libel, then people go further by claiming Jews are goblins/faeries/small evil kidnappers/etc. Black and brown people are depicted as being humans mixed with animals or monsters, which is used to dehumanize us as feral, pagan savages. Israelis straight-up call Palestinians devils, so we know the impact fantasy tropes have on supporting genocide.

Personally, I don't understand why it's so difficult for people to admit there's problematic content in the media they consume. Maybe it's conditioning from being a leftist? We're used to everything having reactionary, liberal bullshit, so it's easier for us. Chuds, on the other hand, don't want to expend the mental energy thinking about what they enjoy. They just want to consume.

Also they forget frieren is diffent compared to most anime/manga in that in general demons arent fully evil beings or in some cases misunderstood or even good, its in the west where in general demons are seen as fully evil beings (from christianity).

its a bunch of fascists watching their first anime and then claiming all anime its like it

sigh

https://hexbear.net/post/4544793

Is Whitey lurking our thread looking for bait so they can stir up struggle sessions?

"The Wretched of the Earth" hours, ain't it?

All power to you,

The relations between Algeria and the new Mali government weren't good for a while, sometime ago the new government broke the ceasefire deal between them and the Azawad that Algeria was involved in, Algeria did something that they didn't like and they cut relations then it went back after a few months, the two countries aren't communicating militarily because there was an ambush next to the border that lead to Malian and Wagner soldiers losing to Azawad forces, Algeria denies supporting terrorism or the Azawad and continues to call for a united Mali, but it's talks. A few weeks ago a Spanish tourist got kidnapped by IS sympathizers and was saved by the Azawad and returned to Algeria. These incidents likely made the Mali government not trust Algeria, and not communicate with it, so it didn't tell Algeria "Hey we're going to fly a drone close to your borders" because they might suspect that Algeria supports the separatists and will warn them beforehand, so when the Algerian AA in the south saw an armed flying object getting close to the border without warning and they shot it down. The drone type is a Bayrkatar Akinci which costs like 30 million dollars, both sides edit posting and calling each other puppet regimes and terrorist supporters.

Algeria has half a million Touaregs and unknown number of Al-Qaeda sympathizers and it doesn't want to anger them by supporting a side in the conflict in Mali.

Some related links
The Algerian accord 2015 https://borgenproject.org/peace-mali-government-northern-factions/
https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20230913-mali-faces-an-increase-of-tuareg-armed-groups-attacks-in-the-north
scrapping the accords https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20240127-mali-to-hold-peace-dialogue-after-scrapping-deal-with-rebels
The ambush https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/29/africa/russian-mercenaries-wagner-killed-mali-intl-latam/index.html
the hostage https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20250121-mali-rebels-free-spanish-man-abducted-bandits-algeria-is-group-niger-austrian-woman
https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20250103-mali-accuses-algeria-of-fuelling-insecurity-in-the-sahel-by-supporting-tuareg-rebels
Morocco - Mali: FAR trains future Malian special forces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKmcgJSlPvY

What I think will happen: Nothing, Mali knows that it can't fight Algeria, Algeria doesn't want to deal with the aftermath of fighting Mali (dealing with insurgents and refugees).

He's not done yet.

New thread woot woot! (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

Hola

oh no its still not over, in Mexico they do a 2 week vacation/holiday during holy week, i will still have to finish this semester after the 2 weeks