between tumblr being found guilty of moderating lgbtq content unequally during the 2018 ban in court and @ sorryforpartyrocking being nuked for suggesting one of tumblr staff may have investment in defending terfs to now many different trans women having their text posts and selfies being flagged as mature without the opportunity to appeal in any meaningful way (one of which was nuked herself)… it’s very. hmmmm. it’s a bad look. as if staff wasn’t already on thin ice for refusing to engage in any effective way with hate speech. “queerest space on the internet” my ass
Those memes about hypothetical pretentious “film bro” movies seek the delicate balance of a country of origin that’s just foreign enough to orientalize but not enough to be called racist over.
I also hate the fact that those countries are invariably in eastern Europe, and that the devastating effects of American imperialism in eastern Europe are a joke to Americans and nobody ever calls them on it because American racial metaphysics always dominate the conversation and set the standard for what is and isn’t acceptable. Fuck America, fuck its jokes, fuck its memes, fuck its racial metaphysics. I’m sick of Americans never being held to account for writing off entire regions of the planet and their struggles against American imperialism as hilarious punchlines.
The universalisation of USAmerican racial dynamics and categorisation is what facilitates turning the long-standing ethnic oppression of eastern Europe into a joke - the struggle of eastern immigrants to western Europe, the depopulation and brain drain that comes with it, the flow of profit into the centers of European power, all of it gets reduced to ‘haha, it’s so funny that there’s ethnic conflict in the Balkans, because they’re all White!’ Relations only solidified in the context of a settler class get applied to contexts where they make no sense, and result in a papering-over of cases of national oppression, rather than a re-evaluation of those relations’ applicability.
hey remember how tumblr *just* had to settle with NYC’s human rights commission for discriminating against LGBTQ people in your implementation of the NSFW ban? We do.
@staff openly tagging face selfies of trans women as sexual content after you already lost ONE lawsuit over queerphobic moderation is quite a fucking move
