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For the third time since I've lived here in a moderately sized city in the UK, I've seen a black male argue with white trash. I don't know why or how they keep managing to find these "people" and end up arguing with them, and I'd be remiss if I wasn't aware that the pale ones are likely to have found him and started it. The first was a friend of my neighbour and after their heated debate he just swore "Ni****s!" (I abhor censorship but in this particular case I'll let it slide, lest this entire rant be censored). Knowing how systemic oppression of the ethnic majority is ignored or censored, and I see nobody standing up for the victim, that sent me into a fury. Well, today was the third event with the same dark-skinned dude. He had just stopped following this heavily tanned piece of trash that was spewing weird shit. ""Not like us", no, we're nothing like you!" ... "That's why we're going to Mars and you ain't!" My maggot in Christ none of us are, not even the trillionaires. What are you jacked up on.

I know there is a growing issue with even members of the public who support cruelty, practice bigotry and oppose liberty, and the density of assholes in my area may be, and have been, higher than I know. I am at a disadvantage when it comes to seeing just how broken our community is, because I'm basic white. But I want to fight this. I refuse to lay back while the very people I share oxygen with are actively damaging others' lives. How fucking dare the cruel, the unjust and the greedy exist anywhere they please.

My country's leaders have just imprisoned another liberation activist under the guise of terrorism with zero evidence. Small, frequent signs that the land I occupy is becoming more hostile to humanity, to life. Intentionally causing harm to the existence of an innocent being goes against my moral code, and it sure as fuck is more important than laws manipulated by those in power.

Justice for Palestine. Free Mangione. Fuck fascists. BIPOC and LGBTQ+ lives matter.

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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

You forgot religion on that list. Just as toxic and thought terminating.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

It is. To a degree it's definitely less of an issue here than it is across the pond, however.

Not saying it's not an issue, but definitely not as contentious.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world -3 points 6 days ago

Q: How do you know there's an atheist in the discussion?

A: Oh, they'll tell you, always, no matter what the discussion is. Entire topic could be about fucking sedgegrass trimming tips and these fuckers will stop in to remind you how annoyed they were that their parent's didn't let them bring their 3ds to church on sundays

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -3 points 6 days ago

hey look another expert on religion who would never be caught dead in a grad course on the subject

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I miss the days when more people around me were worried about people wearing socks in sandles, high socks, no show socks, wrong colored socks, non matching socks, toe socks... Come to think of it I knew a lot of people who spent more time than me looking at people's socks

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I miss when I could be ignorant, or oblivious to widespread issues. Some people focus on their own lives because caring for others is too much to handle, and some people regress to a younger mental state, or 'little' mode to escape their present, and I don't blame them.

Hoarding biscuits and cookies in my room and eating some after school, while watching glitchy Freeview channels on the ~12inch CRT at the end of my bed, via a cheap indoor aerial. CBBC if I was lucky.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

We all cope in our own ways, though many of those overlap. Looking back on 5 year increments of how I dealt with issues is interesting for me sometimes. 5, 10.. not much awareness to outside things. 15,20 I dealt with things healthier than I do now at 35. 25 was my worst, 30 was a bit better, but not sure if I even having coping mechanisms now. I think I just spend hours filled with dread haha

Edit: if you ever need to actually get something off your chest or talk feel free to blurt shit here or message me. end it with a no-reply if it makes you feel better about a rant and you'll at least know someone read it and I wont respond then. (I never know what works for who)

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Bait for what? Not trying to be argumentative, just legit don't understand.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Sometimes bad actors take a good cause to defame, they make valid points except for just enough crazy to make people nervous about discussing it, all the while while pretending to 'just be a concerned activist'

This poisons future discussions and opens the door for more 'crazy libruhls amirite' kind of social silencing