"In the summer of 1959, [American NASA astronaut and physicist Ronald Erwin McNair] refused to leave the segregated Lake City Public Library without being allowed to check out his books. After the police and his mother were called, McNair was allowed to borrow books from the library; the building that housed the library at the time is now named after him."
Are you kidding me? You would have to be unbelievably callous and uncaring to not see where this is headed.
Per @npr': Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
"We can always tell" used to be a form of hate speech against a tiny group of marginalized people, indicating that they can tell if you are "a boy or a girl".
Now the same hateful ideology has expanded to cover large swaths of the American population, indicating that "they can always tell" who's an "illegal" by the way they look, leading to Indigenous First Nations people being deported from their homeland as Mexican immigrants, and tattoo artists being labeled as gang members, and therefore "terrorists", for their skin art.
This expansion of hateful ideology of course, should come as no surprise to anyone. That is why you cannot allow hate to live, no matter if it affects you or not. Soon enough, it'll hit your friends, your family, and yourself.
Maybe someone just has never mentioned it to you:
"I'm disabled" isn't a uno reverse you can play over someone telling you that racism is harmful.
Fucking stop it.
The Navajo Code Talkers are the latest to be erased from official military history by the Republicans' racist "DEI" purge.
The article give a remarkable list of people tossed in the memory hole: many black veterans and units, even the regiment from "Glory"
PS:
to those who asked me about this pinned post,
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113484331199042724
use this thread as an explanation to the very serious joke.
when #fascism happens to BPIOC it’s called #racism; but that racism is sometimes #sexism, #misogyny, #homophobia, #transphobia, #xenophobia, #antisemitism, #ableism, #eugenics ―and when against entire nations, #colonialism & #genocide.
so whatever you let the ruling classes get away with racism will come back to haunt you as fascism.
get it now?
#fascism is often described as #capitalism turning #colonialism inward.
once the ruling capitalist classes run out of scapegoat minorities to colonize, they turn against the “buffer zone”, the so-called hegemonic working classes that separate & protect them from the colonized masses.
in USA #racism creates that buffer zone by allotting more money & access to a designated hegemonic segments of the working classes.
so let’s speak of this from a neoconfederacy perspective…
A compelling account of how white nationalists are strategically infiltrating the wellness movement. By co-opting its language, aesthetics, and products, they attempt to normalize their ideology, build community, and recruit.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2025/2/2/how-white-nationalists-infiltrated-the-wellness-movement #WhiteSupremacy #Racism #Nationalism #Extremism
Analysis: "Trump Invokes 1798 Wartime Law that Paved the Way for Japanese Internment"
"The repugnant law, known as the Alien Enemies Act, will allow Trump to detain and deport noncitizens without due process."
"You read that right: Trump plans to use a wartime authority from over two centuries ago to help carry out his dangerous anti-immigrant plan in a time of peace."
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-trump-invokes-1798-wartime
#Racism #Islamophobia #Trump #USPol #AlienEnemiesAct #StudentProtestors #Palestine .
Mention of anti-trans death threat I received.
Well, I got my first anti-trans death threat on Mastodon yesterday.
It was the graphically animated suicide of a character that was obviously meant to be a stand-in for me. I won't share it, but I've attached a screenshot of the account it came from (I already suspended them on LGBTQIA.space).
Looks like they've been a shit-stain on Fedi for at least a month, posting racist and homophobic shit from https://ak.parcero.casa, where they're an admin.
Update: sounds like y'all should just defed *.parcero.casa
Nothing annoys me more than people who think they are far more intelligent than they actually are. Congratulations *clap clap* you figured out that #racism is bad & #discrimination of #queer people is bad! What a big brain genius you are! And that must make you feel so much better than the #racists & #homophobes out there.
Teacher in Idaho told she must remove sign saying "Everyone is welcome here" because it had images of hands with a variety of "skin tones."
School officials said "that it was not the message that was at issue, but rather the hands of different skin tones on the poster."
Sadly, we need to know about things like this so that we can oppose them & keep them from growing & reenforcing each other.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/article301972094.html
Report: "Federal agents raid Columbia dorm rooms as university expels students"
"The university has suspended or expelled multiple students this week...
"while the Justice Department says it’s now examining if the protests have violated US terrorism laws."
See video:
Report: Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) shared a video of Mahmoud Khalil's arrest:
“Ideas are not illegal", the group said, "& there is no ‘controversial speech’ exception to the First Amendment.
“Our right to free speech includes advocacy for Palestine. We will not be intimidated. We will not be stopped. We will fight until Mahmoud Khalil is free.
"We will fight until Palestine is free."
https://aje.io/kb975q?update=3579802
#MahmoudKhalil #Trump #Racism #Autocracy #JVP #USPol #FreeSpeech .
Report: Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) has published a video of Mahmoud Khalil's arrest:
“Ideas are not illegal", the group said, "& there is no ‘controversial speech’ exception to the First Amendment.
“Our right to free speech includes advocacy for Palestine. We will not be intimidated. We will not be stopped. We will fight until Mahmoud Khalil is free.
"We will fight until Palestine is free."
https://aje.io/kb975q?update=3579802
#MahmoudKhalil #Trump #Racism #Autocracy #JVP #USPol #FreeSpeech .
“No DEI” is a transparent code word for “white supremacy”. Because what other interpretation would even apply here?
When you remove black, Hispanic, and female names from the list, what are you left with? What do you call that?
“Arlington Cemetery scrubs info on famous Black, Hispanic, and female veterans to comply with Trump orders”
#antiantiBlackRacism
#antiPalestinianRacism
#settlercolonialism
#antiimperialism
#racism
#whitesupremacy
#DismantleZionism
#whiteidentitypolitics
#identitypolitics
#dei
#indigenous
#immigration
#xenophobia
#tiktok
#sinophobia
#blackmastodon @blackmastodon
@blackvoices
@BLKNewsNow
@blackgirlnerds [threads.net]
#humanrights
#democracy
#cdnpoli
#canada
#usa
The #Plutocrat-#Bigot #socialMedia axis takes race swapping characters in #movies seriously
Because it's a pipeline to #farRight #politics, weaponized fake outrage
And they get to engage in #racism and #hate
"#AyoEdebiri ‘got insane death threats’ after Elon #Musk shared fake report about #PiratesoftheCaribbean casting
#TheBear #actor called Musk a #fascist and an idiot after his reaction to a post from a #rightWing account that claimed she was replacing Johnny Depp"
When you dismiss a lawsuit against a chemical company poisoning hundreds of local residents citing "#DEI" as your justification because the victims are all black, what is that if not #Racism? 
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-cancer-alley-residents-fight-for-public-health-after-trump-drops-biden-era-pollution-lawsuit-234285637688
