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continentwank + further bad ROP takes
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Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Ave Maria (Audiomachine)

My aunt is convinced her life has been in no way impacted by systemic privilege because, idk, the family has struggled financially in a rural area at times—not even all times! Just sometimes!

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Current Location: Washington

I just read an interesting 538 article about white victimhood and GOP politics here. It's about what you'd expect (or at least what I did, though I have a lot of conservative relatives who are big into white victimhood), but still, yikes.

Current Location: Washington

I haven't posted about it on Tumblr bc I'm still trying to figure out how to articulate it for ... uh, that audience, but I think that there are plenty of white ROP ragebloggers who are perfectly ready to denounce the racism of other ragebloggers, but also perfectly ready to deliver their very important opinions on the Black actors' hair, and it's honestly pretty gross.

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Eventide (Jennifer Thomas)

Tolkien has racist fans everywhere, but damn is there a certain strain of white European ones who are like ... oh, you're American, you can't possibly understand that "brown-skinned" can only mean "darker-skinned white person" except when he was talking about evil people, obviously.

a) fuck off
b) feels pretty weird as a Greek-American to get lectured on this point
c) fuck offfff

Current Location: Washington
Current Music: Legacy of the Lost (Audiomachine)

“whiteness is queer in the sense that it relies upon being the unmarked norm”

what the fuck?

#academiaiscancelled

Occasionally, I see people wondering why, if the Borgias were not really any worse than most Renaissance political families, they were so widely reviled and become a byword for corruption even in a very corrupt period. They must have done something that stood out from the others, right?

Um ... well.
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Every time I see someone defend the monochrome casting of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit it’s just so obnoxious and irrational and, obviously, super racist.

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