racism analysis
this is also one of the things that Pisses Me Off when americans dismiss all of western europe out of hand as basically the same colonialist powers nonsense
anecdotally: i am (among other things) finnish. finland today has....a lot of good things going on, according to outside observers. an overwhelming majority of americans will claim this is because finns, being white, benefited from imperialism
finns were never even Included in the definition of whiteness, in europe
racism analysis?
one of the obvious ones (to me) is how racism/whiteness is fundamentally different things in different places. in the us it's primarily a skin colour thing, whereas in many european countries it tends to be more of a nationalism thing
this is, of course, because the concept of 'whiteness' is used in the same way in both places, but in western europe the oppressors and the oppressed often have....about the same skin colour
@thiskurt @InspectorCaracal @Anke @aldersprig as someone from a mediterranean culture this sentence is like. an intrinsic metaphysical part of the very fabric of existence
@violet ....that's love, isn't it. that is absolutely what love is. h*ck
@violet given that post? i press x to doubt
@violet incredibly cursed thank you
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@fluxom_alt congratulations we're family now do i need to fite anyone on your behalf
@fluxom_alt no idea whether i qualify as parental but i think i can manage the rest of that
does it count if i'm more of a weird sibling/cousin/thing being responsible is hard
playing fallen london
@Shadejackrabbit always happy to help!
playing fallen london
@Shadejackrabbit yeah i had it decently high for a while now and took advantage of the festival to drop by mutton island and finish it off
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@fluxom_alt hey ur pretty rad urself don't undervalue ur own inherent awesomeness
@fluxom_alt look the core premise is there's a bunch of humanoid-ish monsters who literally engage in lethal combat with people in order to acquire their cool hats ok
lethal combat that's not actually all that lethal bc they're p much impossible to kill and honestly tend to just be too nice to actually murder folks
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Black Hat: Criminal hacking, will steal your stuff
White Hat: Ethical hacking, will tell you about how bad your firewall is
Pink Hat: Cancer hacking, convinced the cells to attack themselves.
Rainbow Hat: Gender hacking. Discovers new more powerful genders or lack thereof.
Flaming Hat: Not invited to bars anymore but popular in shooter games.
Red Hat: Don't follow me.
Hat Hat: Has achieved infinite hacker power via recursive hat collection.
@fluxom_alt this is the second-best literal interpretation of planet of hats
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
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