Northern white people who use the term Redneck to distance themselves from their own racism are shit.

Ever notice how whenever a tarot deck artist is like “Hm, better add a little token diversity, gonna make one of the Queens Black” it’s always the Queen of Pentacles?

It’s always the freaking Queen of Pentacles and I think that’s super weird.

Also Get Out

Is like… a truly excellent movie, like the sort of shit that deserves immediate promotion to classic status, it is also (like a lot of truly great cinema) fuckin’ hard to watch, and if you’re white and have an iota of empathy or self awareness you should have a hard time, it should make you uncomfortable, it should make you tense up.

People who are supposedly leftists who believe in essentialist racial categories worry me. Race is a social construct, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t effect shit in hideous, evil ways, and the fact that the lines are drawn in arbitrary as fuck ways shouldn’t draw attention away from the fact that the construct of whiteness has caused the loss of countless lives not to mention languages, cultures and histories.

Like human genetic variation is a gradient not a thing with clear lines that match national or even continental borders. Borders on maps are socially constructed but that doesn’t mean they don’t affect real people’s real lives in terrifying ways. Who has been socially constructed as white has varied by time and place (and no this doesn’t mean that racism against white people exists because racism has always been carried out by people who were in that time and place white, against people who were in that time and place not white).

Which ethnic/cultural groups are considered white is indeed socially determined but that doesn’t mean that the oppression isn’t real

Similarly what forms of sexuality are considered normative or straight varies by time and place (in much of the Ancient Greek world, for example, a straight guy could have plenty of homosexual sex provided he was on top and remain within their category of sexual normalcy).

I’ve Been Seeing A Lot Of Posts About Melania Trump Not Being A Victim Because She Is Also A Terrible Terrible Human Being Also a fair number of posts being like “she’s innocent of any wrongdoing because she’s a victim”

Well, I’ve got some news for you kids: Melania Trump can be both an irredeemable piece of racist garbage and a victim of domestic violence at the same time. Not all victims are good people.

Being abused doesn’t automatically magically make you moral, and it still counts as abuse even if you’re a flaming trash pile of a person.

We can condemn Donald Trump as an abusive piece of trash while acknowledging that Melania is also a profoundly shitty human being.

If your first thought when you hear manicurists/waitstaff/other people in the service industry speaking their first language to each other at work

Is “they’re talking shit about me” what kind of obnoxious behavior are you engaging in to make you so worried about that?

Hey support pragmatic votes for Hillary all you want (I guess) but like don’t erase LGBTQ people, and POC and others who dislike her to further your narrative. Oppressed groups aren’t monoliths. I’m afraid of Trump too, I get it (sort of), but that narrative is genuinely harmful and you need to stop.

Trying to use identity politics and fear of Trump to silence dissent is fucked up.

The Intersection Of Anti-Blackness and Classism

Is a thing where the forms of oppression (and I use classism not in the liberal sense, but as in the aggressive expression of class tensions created by capitalism) are so closely intertwined it’s often not even considered an intersection.

Like a lot of terms (I’m not going to use them because they are cruel words and it’s not my place) are racialized, but also intensely classed and often heavily gendered as well. They’re used to describe proletarian black women’s forms of femininity and also I have to say those forms of femininity are badass (and of course the white bourgeoisie is appropriating them, but also it’s interesting and worth noting that black members of the bourgeoisie cannot adopt these signifiers because of how respectability works, which just goes to show how shitty everything is)

Working class black women are so important and we must protect them at all costs.

The whole “castrate all rapists” meme, is extremely extremely racist. Do you not have ANY clue about how systemically that was used against innocent black men accused of raping white women? Like rape is a heinous crime. I am a survivor myself. I understand having rage, I understand having bitterness, but have an ounce of empathy for other people’s trauma.