June 2013
no girls allowed get out
i always seem to follow all the nice people/ nice parts of the fandom
the bad parts of the fandom seem like some far off land that i only hear about through folklore and the tales of swarthy fishermen
#sometimes they float across my dash like a creature from the depths of hell tho
“Who but a black teenager has the ability to dehumanize a police officer with a stare? Who but a(n unarmed) black teenager can make (armed) police feel threatened by clenching his fists? Who but a black teenager can simultaneously clench his fists and feed a puppy? Who but a black teenager isn’t afforded the opportunity to comply with a request before it’s determined that they’re not complying? Who but a black teenager is choked to the point they urinate themselves while being handcuffed? When does any of this happen to people aren’t black teenagers?”
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Mychal Denzel Smith, To Be Young and Black in America: Always Considered a Threat (via thenationmagazine)
By defending their assault as pushing back against the “Dehumanizing Stare,” these cops confess their illness: The only way for them to feel human is to completely dominate a Black person, even when s/he is a child! Law abiding wont cut it; silence won’t even cut it. Anything less than total obeisance from Black america actually removes the conditions these (most) cops need to feel human.
That is some twisted shit, right there, my friends. Very twisted men walking around with guns and the blessing of the State.
But what’s new….
(via nezua)
You are wrong. Even when Black people bow down to the cops, cops kill them. The bow is translated as mockery. Cops, like all thoughs who adhere to white supremacy require the dehumanization and mass destruction of Black people in order to feel human.
Our mere existence is a threat.
(via frank-e-fighting-words)
#BlackinAsia: The Glorification of White Crime →
blackinasia.tumblr.com
Take a facet of crime, and then look at television shows/movies that feature those criminals as protagonists.
White mobs.
White pirates.
White serial killers.
White political corruption
White drug dealers
I mostly want to talk about this as a TV phenomenon, but pick a crime, any crime, and Western media has probably made a movie/TV series/play/etc. with a white person that romanticizes the criminal activity. No matter what, a white person can do whatever terrible crimes and still have a TV/movie fanbase that loves them.
When you see black or brown people committing crimes on screen, you are to see them thugs and criminal masterminds and people to be beat down.
When you see white people committing crimes on screen, you see a three-dimensional portrait of why someone might commit that crime, how criminals are people too, and how you should even love them for the crimes that they commit because they’re just providing for their families or they’ve wronged or they’re just people and not perfect. This is particularly a luxury given to white male characters, since there few white female criminals as protagonists.
If and of the above shows were about black or brown folks, there would be a backlash of (white) people claiming that TV and movies are romanticizing criminals and are treating them too much like heroes and that it will affect viewers and encourage violence and “thuggish” behavior. And yet fictional white criminals get to have a deep fanbase who loves these white criminals, receive accolades and awards, get called amazing television that portray the complexities of human nature. Viewers of these characters see past the atrocious crimes and into their humanity, a luxury that white characters always have while characters of color rarely do. The closest that mainstream TV has come to showing black criminals as main characters is probably The Wire, and even then, the criminals share equal screen time and equal status as main characters as the police trying to stop them.
The idea that crime can be so heavily romanticized and glorified to such a degree is undoubtedly a privilege given to white characters. The next time you hear someone talk about Dexter Morgan or Walter White in a positive way, it may be an opportunity to rethink how white people can always able to be seen as people no matter what they do, while everyone else can be boiled down to nothing but a criminal.
Excellent point, and as someone who was glorifying Captain Jack Sparrow just a few posts ago, I should reblog this, too.
This is the End and the endless jokes about rape
Let’s talk about This is the End.
It’s celebrity rpf (Apocalypse AU) and whatever, the beginning of the movie is sort of fun, with a lot of cameos and celebrities running around partying.
tl;dr version: Ton of rape jokes, Emma Watson made so uncomfortable during filming that she walked off set and was subsequently mocked for it, and everything we know about Seth Rogen’s ‘comedy’ is confirmed.
