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racism based on skin colour is definitely a thing too, and especially problematic now with refugees from parts of the world where melanin exists

but like, in finnish history? the "white" people are the swedes and sometimes the russians. finns are disproportionately well-known in parts of africa for their attempts to help the people there for a Fucking Reason—they went through the same shit a century earlier. admittedly, to a lesser degree

the oppressors never needed to empathise

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

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

thinkin about the concept of kyriarchy n how it's a v useful term but doesn't actually account for regional variance in terms of how axes of oppression intersect different (and sometimes are just different axes) in different places

tfw u accidentally copy obsolete speech patterns from somebody who's. literally from the future

idek anymore

don't fuck with me! i have the power of god and god and god and god and god and god and god and god and god and anime on my side

just dropped into the mind of a long-dead god, and the first card we draw here references a handful of deities by name. it feels very welcoming. like, as someone whose being has so often been heavily intertwined with myth, this reads as a letter saying 'welcome home'

finally getting to wear a specific piece of clothing that's part of ur preferred gender presentation

and, more to the point, the heady mix of euphoria and confidence that comes from it

*kai mera should not have been left in charge for three whole minutes voice* i remember this button is important but i have no idea what it does

....

ok mayb if i press the button another dozen times i'll figure it out

....frick. this study

it just mentioned that autistic folx are better at assessing "anthropomorphic stimuli" than human stimuli i'm

r u friggin telling me that my being autistic means it's easier for me to socialise with furries than with human people bc like. the h*ck is this callout post omgods

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