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Re: Reproductive decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 27, 2021, 11:01 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/in-laws-trump-supporters-capitol-130000528.html
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> I'm A First-Generation Indian American Woman. I Married Into A
Family Of Trump Supporters.
> ...
> I watched as my brother-in-law, a usually mild-mannered man,
picked a gift and then shook it at the camera in our direction,
a taunting glint in his eye. I looked closer. Whoever had
wrapped it had meticulously taped a $2020 bill to the top, with
Donald Trump’s smug face glowering on it. I grimaced. I didn’t
look at the then-president’s face or listen to his voice if I
could help it anymore.
>
> My sister-in-law was next. She unwrapped her gift and held it
up for all of us to see. It was a red football jersey with
“Kaepernick” printed in big white letters across the back. The
three of us on our side of the screen reacted with excitement
before realizing that what we thought were cheers from the rest
of the family were, in fact, jeers. They laughed with derision
as they passed the jersey around and heckled the Black football
player who had dared to peacefully protest police brutality and
racism. Only one of my in-laws claimed the jersey and wore it
with pride. Something sunk inside of me.
> ...
> It suddenly became harder to breathe. I knew that tossing a
jersey around was not the same as a lynching, but those actions
stemmed from a similar sinister place. It was “good” people who
lynched those boys. It was “respectable” people who stood by and
watched as it happened. I thought of the violent history of this
country and the rhetoric that has inspired these kinds of
unforgivable actions and how alive those beliefs still are
today. I thought of how quickly thoughts and feelings and
“jokes” can evolve into the unthinkable ― a lynching. An
insurrection.
>
> For several years now, some of Eric’s family have brought
“Make America Great Again” paraphernalia, Trump bobbleheads and
the like, to the annual gift exchange, hoping to get under the
skins of their left-wing family members. It’s a move similar to
their spreading of coronavirus misinformation online, calling us
self-righteous for insisting on the efficacy of masks before we
gathered for his grandfather’s funeral and intentionally sending
GIFs of Trump to the family message thread.
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And yet you still married Eric.
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> Eric’s family was a chance to experience something different
― a family that lived within minutes of one another, spent
their weekends grilling at each other’s houses, who seemingly
could not get enough of each other. I imagined my children would
grow up with cousins who were like siblings and that I would
have in-laws who were both friends and family. There would be no
lack of people to turn to and be supported by.
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Above all, you imagined your children could be "whiter" than you
are. Just admit it.
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> We put each other in boxes and labeled one another “good” or
“bad,” “racist” or “liberal snowflake” for what we posted on
social media, what jokes we found funny, what we chose or chose
not to respond to. We tried to have conversations about issues
of race, class and gender both in person and from afar, but
those conversations often devolved on both sides. My blood began
to simmer. Then Ahmaud Arbery was killed. And Breonna Taylor.
And George Floyd. I knew that some of them believed the
ahistorical, racially charged rhetoric: “But he had a criminal
record.” “Why was he running there anyway?” “Blue lives matter.”
“Black Lives Matter are the ones who are violent.” My blood
began to boil.
>
> How could they love me, a brown-skinned woman, if they
believed lies that placed whiteness and the power of empire
above all else? Above me?
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Good question. But neither do you love yourself, or else you
would not have voluntarily joined such a family.
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> Would they love me only if I stayed quiet and looked the other
way from their racism and support of institutions that have been
hurting Black and Brown people since they began?
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If you loved yourself, you would not want to be loved by racists
in the first place.
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> And then on Christmas morning, I boiled over. My
brother-in-law, who had once marveled at my father’s migration
story, waved the Trump dollar at our faces, and my two middle
fingers raised themselves at the camera in protest. I walked
away. I don’t know if anyone noticed the gesture in the hubbub
of paper tearing and children chattering. You shouldn’t have
done that, the immigrant daughter in me immediately said with
remorse. They’re elders. You’re supposed to respect your family.
But another voice roared, Respect?! Respect the colonizers?
Respect the ideology of whiteness being spewed through that
screen? No.
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So will you divorce Eric, since he will not disown his family?
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> The thing is, I still want my in-laws to love me and I, them.
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I will take that as a "No", and I am not surprised. You are
genetic trash just like your in-laws.
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Re: Reproductive decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 8, 2021, 10:49 pm
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As I feared!
HTML https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-majority-minority-myth-d17
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> What Alba examines is how these mixed-race populations
understand themselves and behave within American society, and
his conclusion is that our current situation resembles our
assimilationist, melting point past much more than we currently
believe. “In some fundamental ways,” Alba argues, “such as
educational attainment, social affiliations, and marriage
tendencies, the members of mixed groups appear closer to the
white side of their background than to the minority side.”
>
> This is particularly true with respect to the offspring of
Latino-Anglo and Asian-Anglo couples, who are increasingly
assimilated into the new bi-racial and multiracial mainstream.
The only exception to this rule, alas, are black-white mixed
children — who are more likely to be in single-parent homes, to
be poorer and to have bad experiences with law enforcement, and
thereby tend to identify with the non-white part of their
identity. But even here, Alba notes, white-black children “not
infrequently marry whites.” And the core difference between
these kids and others is as much about class and family
structure as it is about racism.
> ...
> Key here is the role of the Latino population, and how it is
defined. Most demographic estimates of the “white” population
are based on the Census definition: “non-Hispanic white.” But
what of “Hispanic whites” — those whose lineage may come from
South or Latin America in ethnicity but who also identify
racially and socially as white? If you include them in this
category, America remains two-thirds “white” all the way through
2060 and beyond
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Then what happens to Demographic Blueshift?
#Post#: 4932--------------------------------------------------
Re: Reproductive decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: March 18, 2021, 10:17 pm
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As racism becomes more and more stigmatized we can expect
closeted racist "Whites" to cryptically conceal their racism as
an attempt to pass on their genes by reproducing with their
Eurocentric "non-White" counterparts.
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Re: Reproductive decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: March 30, 2021, 2:01 am
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More people are getting it (I recommend you read the full
article):
HTML https://www.wearyourvoicemag.com/fetishization-black-bodies-black-lives/
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> Sex as utility is an integral and intentional part of white
supremacy. The way sex is used and has been used to reify white
ascendant ideals of personhood is revealed in the ways that
entire Black communities and lives have been destroyed under the
guise of protecting white women from Black men’s sexual
appetites—consider Emmett Till, the Scottsboro Boys, the Central
Park Five, and many more unnamed and unknown to us. It is also
revealed in the practice of Black men beholding white women as
“upper echelon” sex objects, usually as a (sub)conscious means
of conquering what Black men have long been forbidden from,
sometimes even under pain of death. We see it in the coveting of
mixed babies, especially ones with light skin and “good hair.”
Reproduction and building families becomes another means of
valuing whiteness and proximity to whiteness while devaluing
Blackness.
>
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#Post#: 5304--------------------------------------------------
Re: Reproductive decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: April 4, 2021, 6:40 pm
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This guy gets it:
HTML https://twitter.com/_Frankie_____/status/1375215861380702208?s=19
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Re: Reproductive decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 4, 2021, 10:51 pm
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I really like how this photo from your link also contrasts
Counts' (Aryan) face shape with the bully's (non-Aryan) face
shape:
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[img]
HTML https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExQ9D_-XAAQMZrh?format=jpg&name=900x900[/img]
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Who is the real subhuman?
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/non-aryan-aggressiveness/
#Post#: 5349--------------------------------------------------
Re: Reproductive decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: April 5, 2021, 8:35 pm
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HTML https://twitter.com/RizMoritz/status/1376588304095842304?s=20
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Re: Reproductive decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 5, 2021, 10:17 pm
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> Can someone remind TV and Film that mixed race couples don't
have to include a white person
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A lot of people seeing a "white"/"non-white" multiethnic couple
will say stuff like: "Their kids will be beautiful." I have
never heard the same said about the hypothetical offspring of a
"non-white"/"non-white" multiethnic couple. Eurocentrism strikes
again!
(By the way, can you please paste quotes with your Twitter links
to make discussions easier to read?)
#Post#: 5353--------------------------------------------------
Re: Reproductive decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: April 5, 2021, 10:22 pm
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Yes. I will do that. I am kind of a perfectionist so I
previously would only quote tweets when I could copy all the
formatting from the original tweet.
#Post#: 6855--------------------------------------------------
Re: Reproductive decolonization
DIR By: acc9
Date: June 2, 2021, 5:46 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHAO080lQUY
White supremacists boosted by Youtube to spread Asian Hate
Never understood why Chinese girls would fall for them....and
have children with them too.....especially when this guy's from
South Africa...How could she not know about Apartheid...
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