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I mean, ok.
Lori Lightfoot is God hisself?
Forget everyone else. What the hell makes this dimwit think the Quebecois want to be part of his grand North American Soviet Empire?
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>Commie posts stupid "United Socialists States of North America" Map
>"I'm muting this"
>Proceeds to get raped in replies by commies, socialists, anti-colonialists, conservatives, centrists
>Best part is "anti-colonialists", since they simply can't wrap their smoothbrains around the notion that the Natives engaged in colonialism, invasions, slavery, warfare, genocide.
They think that just because the French guillotined their nobles and can't go two weeks without a general strike, they're all in with the commies.Forget everyone else. What the hell makes this dimwit think the Quebecois want to be part of his grand North American Soviet Empire?
My God, they really do have shit for brains.
If you're white, it can be all too easy to normalize your whiteness. The powers that be put whiteness at the dead center of our politics and culture—think about how often white people are framed as the real Americans or the most meaningful voters in our politics—and you, a white person, could go through your life thinking that's an accurate reflection of the world around you. It's not. But it's on us white people to try to undo that in our own lives, and culture can be a key part of that, a way to stretch beyond simple opposition to overt racism or dutiful nods to diversity.
So, white people: What books by people of color have you read in the past year? What movies have you seen? What music have you listened to?
Books I read:
- Michele Harper, The Beauty in Breaking. Harper weaves together her family story—from her father's abuse to her divorce—with lessons learned, and taught if anyone is willing to listen, as a Black emergency room doctor. For a sample of the book's power, check out this short piece by Harper.
- Dawn Marie Dow, Mothering While Black. This book expands on Unequal Childhoods, Annette Lareau's classic of sociology of the family, to consider more deeply how Black women conceive of and practice motherhood.
- Farrah Rochon, The Boyfriend Project and Huddle with Me Tonight and Field of Pleasure and I'll Catch You
- Courtney Milan, The Duke Who Didn't. As The New York Times put it, "By turns consciously tender and fiercely witty, this is an unalloyed charmer about Chloe Fong, a stubborn Chinese-British sauce maker, and Jeremy Yu, the half-Chinese Duke of Lansing, who's head over heels for her, but can't seem to say so." Milan is also one of the authors who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for groups doing field organizing in the Georgia Senate runoffs, so, you know, buy her books!
- Alyssa Cole, How to Catch a Queen and When No One is Watching and The A.I. Who Loved Me and Be Not Afraid and Agnes Moor's Wild Knight. When No One is Watching represents a shift from romance to thriller for Cole, a book sometimes described as Get Out meets Rear Window. As someone who doesn't read a lot of thrillers, it was too stressful for me to finish in the run-up to the elections, but I also couldn't wait to get back to it after the compelling early chapters. How to Catch a Queen is a spinoff of Cole's Reluctant Royals series, which produced the New York Times notable book A Princess in Theory in 2018. Cole joined Milan as one of the Romancing the Runoff organizers, so again, buy her books.
- Sonali Dev, Recipe for Persuasion. The word "persuasion" in the title is a direct nod to Jane Austen's book of that title, as is the book's plot. It's an homage without being derivative, and a lovely book about family and heritage as well as romance.
- Alisha Rai, The Right Swipe and Girl Gone Viral
- Adriana Herrera, Mangoes and Mistletoe and Here to Stay and American Fairytale and American Dreamer and American Sweethearts and American Love Story
- Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone
- Sandhya Menon, When Dimple Met Rishi and There's Something about Sweetie and 10 Things I Hate about Pinky and Of Curses and Kisses. The first three titles are young adult romances about navigating life, love, and parental expectations as an Indian American teenager.
- Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer
- Vanessa Riley, A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby
- Jasmine Guillory, Party of Two. Guillory's earlier The Proposal remains my favorite of her books, but I will always look forward to a new book from this author.
- Ruby Lang, House Rules
- Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
- Mia Sosa, The Worst Best Man. Per NPR, "a salty-sweet delight." Indeed—and with lots of amazing food descriptions, salty-sweet is apt in more ways than one.
- Melissa Blue, Grumpy Jake
- Farah Heron, The Chai Factor
- Rebekah Weatherspoon, Xeni. Weatherspoon runs the valuable resource WOC in Romance.
- Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women and The Luckiest Lady in London and Beguiling the Beauty
- Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman, Big Friendship
- Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
How long before whites reading POC-written stuff is considered cultural appropriation or racist?Normally white guilt is infuriating, but it can also be hilarious! Take Alternet contributor Laura Clawson for instance. She wrote this whole clickbait piece about why white people should consume media produced by minorities and if they don't they're just reinforcing structural racism:
She opens with this:
As if that wasn't bad enough, she lobs out these questions:
And if that was white-guilt inducing enough, she adds this list of woke books she has supposedly read just to rub it in.
White guilt really is a helluva a drug!
At the rate things are going, I'm sure that will happen pretty soon. We'll see Laura Clawson begging for forgiveness because she gentrified minority literary spaces or whatever. It never ends.How long before whites reading POC-written stuff is considered cultural appropriation or racist?
Every Soviet Union needs its Chechens, so we have people to persecute and blame for every act of terrorism.Forget everyone else. What the hell makes this dimwit think the Quebecois want to be part of his grand North American Soviet Empire?
Just read some good manga. Those people she calls 4chan weeaboo incels have on average consumed more POC-made fiction than she's ever had.Normally white guilt is infuriating, but it can also be hilarious! Take Alternet contributor Laura Clawson for instance. She wrote this whole clickbait piece about why white people should consume media produced by minorities and if they don't they're just reinforcing structural racism:
She opens with this:
As if that wasn't bad enough, she lobs out these questions:
And if that wasn't white-guilt inducing enough, she adds this list of woke books she has supposedly read just to rub it in.
White guilt really is a helluva a drug!
Manga doesn't count, nor does Fantasy or Sci-fi (both of which have some great peeohcee writers), or even non-fiction. The only shit these people see as acceptable is guilt-porn literary fiction and shitty poetry.Just read some good manga. Those people she calls 4chan weeaboo incels have on average consumed more POC-made fiction than she's ever had.
Gotta love how everything for these people has to be lowbrow scatological humor. Pee pee poo poo farty doo-doo heads!
Here's the map in all it's LARP-ing, retarded glory.
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>Commie posts stupid "United Socialists States of North America" Map
>"I'm muting this"
>Proceeds to get raped in replies by commies, socialists, anti-colonialists, conservatives, centrists
>Best part is "anti-colonialists", since they simply can't wrap their smoothbrains around the notion that the Natives engaged in colonialism, invasions, slavery, warfare, genocide.
Every Soviet Union needs its Chechens, so we have people to persecute and blame for every act of terrorism.
Here's the map in all it's LARP-ing, retarded glory.
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I need to counter the autism here with my own autistic nit-picking:
- Having an "Inuit SSR" that includes the current states and territories Alaska the Yukon and the Northwest Territories is retarded beyond belief, since such an entity would have Inuit peoples as a minority. In fact, in 1999, the Canadian government created the territory of Nunavut from the Northwest Territories precisely to give the Inuit a political entity where they were a majority. Who would give that up?
- The Quebec SSR include Labrador, which has never really been a part of Province of Quebec or its predecessors. Also includes Northern New England, which has never really been French in away (a lot of French Canadians migrated to work in New England mill towns, but they have long since assimilated). Northern Ontario and the east coast of New Brunswick does have a long of French speakers, but also a lot more English speakers would probably would like being part of Francophone entity. Also, "Montrouge", lol — is this suppose to be real, replacing the '-real' (from 'royal') with '-red' or is he just a goddamn moron?
- Why are only autonomous regions for the Navajo and the Sioux and no other Indian tribe/nation? Answer: OP was a retard who despite his strong suspport for native rights knows absolutely nothing about them.
- Why would anybody think merging the entire Western half of North American into a single entity would be a good idea? The differences between Ecotopia and the Empty Quarter would make governing such a region difficult. It would require having a massive bureaucracy and political entities to administer, would also be excellent power bases for ambitious politicians in any power struggles. Ditto the Great Lakes and Dixie SSR.
- Giving ex-independent Mexico, Bahamas and Cuba(?) their own SSR seems like recipe for disaster, like having the Baltic states have thier own SSR. Also, why the fuck is Bermuda still a British territory in this scenario?
- Please use a colour beside red next time, dear commie-tard.
Whoever did this is as autistic as ADF with his "Australatina" bullshit.
- Why are only autonomous regions for the Navajo and the Sioux and no other Indian tribe/nation? Answer: OP was a retard who despite his strong suspport for native rights knows absolutely nothing about them.