tw // ableist language
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I am mentally ill and neurodivergent so let me say this: the people who stormed the capital yesterday aren't disturbed. they're not crazy. they're not mentally ill.
they're acting out the mandates of white supremacy.
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I am mentally ill and neurodivergent so let me say this: the people who stormed the capital yesterday aren't disturbed. they're not crazy. they're not mentally ill.
they're acting out the mandates of white supremacy.
they're acting like they own the place because effectively, they do. just like in Charlottesville. just like in Oregon. just like everything here since 1492.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_National_Wildlife_Refuge
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_National_Wildlife_Refuge
tw // slavery , anti-blackness , white supremacism , colonial violence
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you don't build a country on the backs of enslaved people using the blood of indigenous people for two hundred something years without leaving a legacy.
white supremacy is interwoven into everything.
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you don't build a country on the backs of enslaved people using the blood of indigenous people for two hundred something years without leaving a legacy.
white supremacy is interwoven into everything.
idk why I'm writing this. yelling because people shouldn't be fucking surprised, I guess.
but I don't have the spoons to keep writing good trigger warnings so I'm gonna stop with the remedial history lesson.
but I don't have the spoons to keep writing good trigger warnings so I'm gonna stop with the remedial history lesson.
basically was trying to say this https://twitter.com/twitchyspoonie/status/1347374565622652928