Aral Balkan
Don’t you just love it when an anonymous American (you know, the folks who bomb Brown countries) labels you—a white-presenting guy with two Middle Eastern parents—as someone with “marginalized European ethnic identity” (hey, fellow Turks, now we know what we are because some asshole American just learned us; ain’t that great?)
I’m so fucking sick of bloody Americans who couldn’t point out where you were born on a map acting like Webster’s dictionary when it comes to dictating your identity.
Aral Balkan
You get held in the Brown room at Brussels airport and JFK airport because of your place of birth and who your parents are and then you lecture me about my “‘marginalized European ethnic identity’”, you clueless American imperialist asshole.
Fuck you.
Aral Balkan
@sll All I know is maybe intersectionality means we don’t fucking engage in privilege dick measuring contests especially when we don’t know the first thing about someone beyond their profile photo and what their challenges are, especially while defending people who profit from legitimise surveillance capitalists like Google. And I don’t even know who the fuck is running that account; they’re anonymous.
sll - un kien avec un capiau
@aral Well isn't it a black privilege to feel like staying on Twitter because "our community"? Or maybe its a US privilege... entitlement.
Anyway. Turkey is in fact a partly european country, but I wouldn't call turkish people "white". Everyone knows how it went for turkish workers in Germany, Belgium etc.
Aral Balkan
@s1m0n4 @sll Well, it all counts – it’s a very privileged position to be able to say “skin colour doesn’t matter.” If I’m in the US and I get pulled over by a cop, I don’t wonder if I’m going to survive the experience as a white-presenting person whereas that’s going to be at the forefront of a Black person’s mind. And we’re no better here in Europe either. Our societies are systemically and institutionally racist and our privileges derive from historic and current subjugation.
s1m0n4
@sll @aral unpopular opinion: I'm starting to get annoyed about all this forced labeling. The world is a range of skin shades and deciding what is white and what isn't is arbitrary in many cases, even more so with an increasingly number of mixed ethnicities kids.
The only thing that should count is the nationality.
Aral Balkan
@sll Oh, I wasn’t speaking about you, sorry. I was referring to the rage.love admin.
sll - un kien avec un capiau
@aral I certainly wasn't engaging in a dick-measuring contest, sorry if it read like that.
I'm with you about the fediblock stuff. It's almost a year since Musk bought Twitter. I'm tired to read about how communities need Twitter. I'm not saying migration to fediverse is that easy for whole groups, but all I see is stagnation & militants happy to stay there.
Aral Balkan
@alx 💕
Alx 🐈
@aral the old good American exceptionalism that the Americans love so much. Like when they need to explain Russian colonialism to Ukrainians and Eastern Europeans, or monopolising the race critical discourse only through the lens of American BIPOC, dismissing altogether how racism, imperialism, and orientalism manifest in many way in other part of the world with different histories.
All my solidarity to you, Aral. There is nothing worst that being lectured by people who claim are allies.
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