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white t girl i love you. and also do not forget that you are not the modern martyr for the oppressed voice. that’s still black girls. it’s always been black girls. stories of black martyrdom simply don’t make it into the news cycle until the unrest caused by its reporting can be packaged as a “riot” segment between traffic reports. i know you suffer, but whatever you’re experiencing, i beg you, when interacting with your community and building nuanced understandings of each other and the system which binds us, to not forget that a black tgirl has felt it 100 times worse before positioning yourself as an authority on all systems of oppression for having suffered unjustly at all. because you have suffered unjustly, but suffering unjustly as a white person means something so much different.
serenely reblogging this once more after deleting responses from white people saying “talking about this is actually unhelpful because im oppressed too” yeah i know. i wrote that down in the post i made, and i also wrote down why the difference is important. did you read it?
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“on the one hand,” i tell the late medieval monk i hang out with sometimes, “each age reconfigures the great events of history in the way that makes them most meaningful for their own time. like how you keep drawing alexander in full plate.”
“he’s a knight, what else would he wear”
“on the other,” i continue, ignoring him, “it does make me feel like i’ve gone a little bit crazy when people applaud caesar’s assassins as restoring power to the people. at best they wanted a different dictator for life.”
“was your 1st century ad stoic friend busy or something”
“yes. anyway the point is applauding action taken for action’s sake without looking at the consequences is silly. it’s not like killing caesar restored the Res Publica anyway -”
“because all Caesar did was knock over its rotted corpse,” he says along with me. “can i play Dark Souls in peace now?”
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tumblr friendships can be the purest form of friendship bc it’s like. hey i like you based on your shitty vibe and concerning ventposts and that weird sex thing we’re both into. raw dogging friendship
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