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Yeah–there is a lot of colorism and antiblackness in indigenous movements. i didn’t wanna say this yesterday bcs i just didn’t want start drama on an important day. this is gonna be pretty heated bcs i always get heated about antiblackness and colorism
aside from how black people within certain native and or indigenous groups are treated (or mistreated), the way black people are erased from the term ‘indigenous’ and easily lumped in with ‘non-indigenous/non-native’ (and those terms are anti black in themselves) people, or even called colonizers/settleres in some instances, or even barred out of indigenous issues that affect us is sad.
i think that, it’s always wild to me that people are willing to go great lengths to describe how indigenous does not just mean one indigenous and or native group, it means many. People will bring up indigenous people from Japan, Hawaii, Canada, Peru, Guatemala, US, etc., and these groups have nothing to do with each other but people still recognize they fall under the indigenous umbrella and that they all face specific issues. But the same grace isn’t ever given to black people.
the first time i breached the discussion of black people being indigenous on this blog, I got a wave of hate my way. and that is really how it is even off line. black eople are a valid, indigenous group and we deserve to be recognized and heard for specific issues. Yet, like the only indigenous people who really acknowlege this at large are afro natives and even they face violent antiblackness in their own communities.
It’s just upsetting and shows how deeply colorism and antiblackness is ingrained in indienous events/groups/etc
I mean even when christopher columbus day was replaced with indigenous peoples day, black people still weren’t considered despite the fact that christoper coloumbus had black slaves and influenced the trans atlantic slave trade (people even speculate traded black slaves). Yet black people still aren’t recognized on things like indigeous peoples day.
It’s just–idk upsetting. Because i feel that when it comes to things like racism, police brutality and stuff, black people have been generous enough to let other groups take platforms and share our struggles to raise awareness–i.e bipoc, even the black power fist has become a sign of resistance in nonblack indigenous/native groups, but when it comes to nonblack groups welcoming black people to their platforms because every issue they face, from water, to land, to reconnection to culture, we are utterly ignored and barred out of convos.
it’s like, people don’t consider someone indigenous unless they are brown, and even if they are white before they’d ever consider a black person black in any capacity. whether we’re talking about black people who are a part of native groups, or black people being indigenous just by the sake of being black
Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
But queer is more inclusive
And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.
It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you
It’s called economía del lenguaje.
It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.
Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.
Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.
“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”
Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?
I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.
queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid
every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.
I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.
baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit
every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.
terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.
we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.
I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.
It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.
The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.
They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.
but the way every site is just becoming more obsessed with being overly family and child friendly is insane. “i cant believe you’ve done this” getting taken down from youtube for ‘violence’. the way on tiktok if you want to subtitle your video you have to jump through hoops to censor words that arent even swears or sexual or else the video gets removed. i seen someone that had to censor the word diarrhea
this post is rapidly gaining notes if anyone adds anything stupid to it im going to hurt you
“Only 1% of white people in the US had slaves” is a great example of using a fact for misinformation. That is true, but extremely manipulative bc it cuts out really important details about the statistic.
1) It includes the more populous Northern states that did not allow slavery.
2) It ignores the fact that family units were much larger and only the family patriarch tended to actually own the slaves for the family, meaning there were significantly more slave-holders than slave-OWNERS. So you need to measure by household.
So, using the exact same data (the 1860 census) you can determine that about 25% of households in the south had slaves. In Mississippi alone 49% of households had slaves. South Carolina is 46%. The 1% figure I’ve believed in the past is propaganda to undersell the role of the general white population in slavery and to undersell just how much everyday southern whites benefitted from slavery.
And I haven’t even mentioned that slave owners often rented out their slaves…
^Yo I was about to mention people who were renting slaves too
