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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
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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.
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not, to be clear, complaining that i'm able to have friends who unconditionally respect me like this. it's h*ckin Awesome. it's just also really weird the way this is playing out
friggen wild how i know someone who's so disconnected from the very concept of gender roles that my Literally Actively Transitioning around them scans to them the same way as the average cis person doing....whatever it is the cis do
like, this is explicitly very much a decent person and been actively out there championing nb rights i just. i'm specifically not out to them bc they just take all of this at face value without questioning any of my decisions and so i have nothing to segue off of
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Setting: a classroom in the year 2210
"Okay, welcome to week two of 21st Century Media Studies. I hope you all have had time to look over the syllabus and acquire all of the listed course materials.
"Now, as you hopefully already know, the first decade of the 21st century was in large part shaped by the United States' reaction to a terrorist attack on the world trade center buildings in September 2001. But before we can really dive in to how Western film and television was shaped by the resulting conflicts, it's important to understand the cultural context of the existing media landscape.
"I suspect very few of you have heard of this first film that we're going to be looking at. Despite it's relative obscurity now, it was a significant part of the contemporary zeitgeist. I think this film is a really good starting point to understanding the mindset of most Americans in the early months of 2001.
"Fortunately for us, our library does have a copy that is playable on modern equipment. Pay attention now!"
someBODY once told me...
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own