a friend of mine called artist @gomigomipomi (a popular splatoon artist) out for whitewashing splatoon’s marina, gomi responded by idiotically accusing my friend of “blackwashing” pearl for drawing pearl as black (so they believe in reverse oppression lol), and siccing their huge followerbase on her. she is now receiving massive amounts of vile racist messages.
in addition to gomigomipomi themself, here are other people who sent my friend hate for being a poc calling out whitewashing under the cut:
What she says: I’m fine
What she means: Gandhi was a racist, misogynist, sexist who said that the rape of a woman was her own fault. He slept with naked underage girls to test his celibacy and degraded them to mere sex objects. He talked foul things about his own wife, said that menstruation was the manifestation of the distortion of a woman’s soul, and yet he’s praised by the world for ‘bringing peace’.
He also regularly beat his wife, he was extremely antiblack and a vocal supporter of apartheid in South Africa, and said during the Holocaust that Jews should commit mass suicide to shame the Germans instead of resisting. And this is just for starters.
For those who want sources (myself included because I’d never learned/heard of this before):
i feel a lot of people don’t understand the mistrust that many mentally ill/chronically ill/disabled people have towards healthcare practitioners.
it’s something that comes from years of misdiagnosis. the multiple doctors you meet who just don’t care. who accuse you of faking. who don’t take you or your symptoms seriously. whose own prejudices blind them to your plight. who belittle you. mock you. condescend to you. who don’t listen to you. who are lazy, cruel, uninformed.
i think it is so worth it to keep looking for doctors until you find the right fit because when you (finally) meet a doctor who gets it, who understands, and can treat you and help make things better or at least manageable and bearable, it’s a breath of fresh air.
but even so i really think we need to stop being so hard on people who are wary of doctors. sometimes they’re wary for a reason.
T'challa, a weary sibling, testing new gear: is this a prank
Shuri, ignoring the 42 hidden 360° cameras, 26 hidden audio recorders, her YouTube livestream, her Instagram livestream, the camera she hid in his shirt for a first person pov, Peter Parker on the ceiling, the camera in her hair, Nakia behind the door, and all the Dora Milaje staring through the window: no
With the gen 1 Pokemon games coming out, I know that some people might actually be playing them for the first time, so I would like to share an important tip with you that will help make your gen 1 experience as authentic and perfect as possible:
If you faint while aboard the SS Anne, you can return there again, and the ship won’t depart after you’ve helped the captain. Return to the docks later in the game once you have access to Surf and Strength, because if you use Strength on the truck on the right side of the dock area, you will get Mew! Thank me later, I learned this cool trick from my uncle who works at Nintendo.
Since the new games are going to be Kanto again, bringing back this very vital and important piece of knowledge for you all.
