Concept: My children not being corrupted by whiteness and never going through self hate.
i think about this a lot
POC not wanting to date white people because of a history of colonization and systematic powers of oppression, fear of or weariness over casual and blatant racism, and/or the lack of a shared culture is NOT that same as white people not wanting to date POC because of caricatures that they created, stereotypes that they mock and replicate, and their own racism–whether they think they’re racist or not.
In short: POC are not and cannot be racist for not wanting to date white people. Whereas white people are just plain racist.
How about we just date people were attracted to?
White people don’t have to date POC if they’re not attracted to them. POC don’t have to date white people if they’re not attracted to them.
How about you unfollow me rn immediately or not add your dumb ass no one asked you commentary to posts that aren’t for you
for real though, internet english is STAGGERINGLY multi-modal. the problem with communicating via writing is that you lose certain dimensions of spoken conversation, like intonation, facial expression, body language, pauses and fillers etc, but there’s been so many linguistic innovations to maintain richness in communication, like
- emojis/emoticons
- use of capslock and purposefully creating/not fixing typos to convey excitement, or likewise not capitalizing anything
- use of punctuation (or lack thereof) to indicate /emphasis/ or ~irony~ or apathy
- reaction images and memes
- use of familiar songs in tumblr text posts or vines etc
- variational spellings like you/u or true/tru
- bolding, italics, strikethrough, font size, line breaks, etc
- (using parentheses to whisper)
- tags as commentary, also the body of commonly used/commonly mocked hashtags
like i could go ON and ON about the things that internet language users have created to get around the difficulties of non-verbal communication, like ??? what other dialects can do all that and change that much in 30 years????