#racism

See tagged statuses in the local bookrastinating.com community

Omar El Akkad: Western hypocrisy over Israel's genocide in Gaza

Author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
interviewed by Peter Greste, 26 Oct, 2025

"Rules, conventions, morals, reality exist, all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power, otherwise they, like all else, are expendable."
~Chris Hedges

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this-/105871370

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPI0RmTKCYk

@palestine .

Crossing from Switzerland to Germany in Basel by train, two different sets of police officers only checked the only brown person in my car. To be clear, he got checked twice, and he was the only one who got checked. How is this legal?

New introduction post to pin.

I am and aware, continuing to and avoid most public places. All the info on Covid has continued to show that ignoring it is dangerous, to myself and to others. Most of my posts are about Covid, and I boost a lot of Covid information.

I am through self-diagnosis, many years of struggling, and dealing with and for various reasons. I am grateful to have this brain structure, even though in our ableist society it is a . people of all kinds should be recognized and properly supported.

I am a survivor of an aggressive thyroid cancer, and still beating the odds.

The is happening and also should not be ignored. I also frequently boost climate and weather information.

I …

"On Friday, Fox News published an article with the headline 'SNAP Beneficiaries Threaten to Ransack Stores Over Government Shutdown.' The piece, written by Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi and filed under the site’s 'cultural trends' section, featured quotes from several Black women complaining about losing their food stamp benefits."

~ Parker Molloy


/1

https://www.readtpa.com/p/fox-news-ran-ai-generated-racist

Wired: No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants
SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.

"...A number of conspiracy theorists and right-wing influencers are claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps, while AI-generated videos on TikTok push racist stereotypes of Black people demanding more benefits...."

https://www.wired.com/story/disinformation-conspiracy-theories-snap-benefits/

Wired: No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.

"Mitchell Esajas, creator of The Black Archives: ‘The far-right is trying to develop mythical historical narratives’

The co-founder of an archive on the history of the Dutch colonies speaks about the importance of memory and anti-racism, amid the rise of the far-right in the Netherlands"

https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-26/mitchell-esajas-creator-of-the-black-archives-the-far-right-is-trying-to-develop-mythical-historical-narratives.html

Is Britain going backwards on racism?

Much of that depends whether you think it has moved forward in anything more than superficial terms in recent years.

And to be frank it doesn't much matter what I think, if, the victims of racism think things are getting worse, then whatever the claims of our political class, they are!

Certainly, the recent call for the deportation of settled migrants suggests a normalisation of racism that is highly worrying.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/26/windrush-commissioner-black-britons-uk-going-backwards

it's time to STOP shopping at businesses that allow federal agents to kidnap your neighbours.

DROP HOME DEPOT.

go to Ace and Lowe's instead. (and tell them why you're shopping with them.)

DEI -is- a merit based principle. DEI means that more candidates are brought forward to be assessed for their merits, before being rejected for their skin, their handicap, their gender, their sexual orientation, etc. It brings all candidates to the same line in the hiring process as the straight white man (like Poilievre) who would otherwise be put first. The "comfortable" candidate who will "fit in" (regardless of their qualifications), especially the ones with all the same "connections".

DEI does not "force" anybody to be hired, it merely keeps them in the competition. Anti-DEI rhetoric is inconsistent with merit-based principles, period. If you're scared of DEI, then you're scared of competition and want to remain safe in your privilege.

Poilievre Endorses Petition to Dismantle DEI Programs in Canada Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre endorsed a petition by MP Vincent Neil Ho on October 13, 2025, calling for the end of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in Canadian institutions to restore merit-based hiring. The petition, launched on X, quickly gathered over 10,000 signatures, with supporters citing $1.2 billion in annual taxpayer costs for equity programs. Critics highlighted Poilievre's recent electoral loss in Carleton and a by-election arrangement to secure a new seat as inconsistent with merit principles.

Report: A US judge has ruled that the Trump administration "unlawfully targeted pro-Palestine student activists with deportation to silence criticism of Israel, violating their right to free speech."

In a blistering opinion, Judge William Young said Marco Rubio & Kristi Noem "misused their powers in the deportation campaign."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/30/us-deportation-drive-against-pro-palestine-students-is-illegal-judge-rules

@palestine .

Content warning Fascism, ICE, Human Rights Abuses

Francesca Albanese spoke at the Together For Palestine event in London:

“Such cruelty did not start 700 days ago. For nearly a century, the Palestinian people have lived under the weight of a brutal settler colonial project."

“Britain planted the seed of this catastrophe w/ the Balfour Declaration, promising away a land that was not theirs to give"

https://aje.io/8v8svm?update=3963051

@palestine @fedibird.com .

Francesca Albanese

I'm delighted to share that our special issue of Geschichte & Gesellschaft on "Racism and Antiracism in Europe", edited by Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ and me, has been published.

"It provides historical depth to current debates by examining the history of and in the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, and Poland, asking how racialized thinking is constructed, encoded, normalized, and put to work, and showing how antiracist actions have exposed and contested these discourses and practices. Taken together, the articles in this special issue retrieve local and national histories while challenging ingrained notions of “non-racialized” Europe that emerged in opposition to the racist atrocities of the era of European colonialism and National Socialism." (From our introduction.)

If you would like to read the articles but don't have institutional access, please email us.

https://www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/gege/50/3