(Cont.)can you say the same for the black people brought here in chains
that face the effects of racism every day? Those who are beaten
threatened, killed, because of their skin. Can you say they have
privilege? Sure in other parts of the world being an American is
something that gives you an advantage (and I agree. This is true for
/white/ Americans) but racism is something that exists in many parts of
the world and is hard to escape, so I think that undermines much of the
so called privilege
Like I understand the point, but it’s just not realistic and you can’t
apply generalizations like that to all the people in such a diverse
country.
Um, when I said Americans, it meant anyone born and raised in the United States of America. Sorry you guys have such massive problems with each other but anyone who was born and raised in a country is from that country, no matter what their ethnic origins are.
what youre not realising is that: if you’re American = you possess automatic coolness almost everywhere else in the world. A good European example is Tia Taylor (an American) on Youtube who tells her African American fans that since she’s treated so well in Italy, they shouldn’t worry about coming over and beign treated badly because of their race: they wouldn’t have to, they’re American. But on the other hand black Italians have a harder time of life in Italy. You couldn’t tell who was from where if you stood them side by side, apart from maybe how they dress/what they own, why they’re here and where they live, which are usually more than not factors indicated by wealth and cultural background. Large and by, African Americans coming over from America are reporting that they’re treated much better here than they were in their own country, while European black people continue to suffer racism etc. That’s American privilege already, right there.
Secondly while we’re at it, African American/Native American votes and passports (as well as white Americans of course, since they vote too)
are the most powerful in the world. The US elections are given priority coverage in Europe* and whoever the American public votes for will affect the whole world. you know sometimes you guys vote like that really isn’t the case. America has its finger in every pie politically and militarily. And being from that superpower? That’s called privilege.
So in conclusion, I can so generalise. An American can go abroad and talk over a Moldovan, a Bangladeshi, probably a Brit at this point too at the world table, no matter what their race. Racism exists everywhere; it’s not that that makes you special, it’s your wealth. Your internal affairs are none of our business, but apparently our internal affairs are yours, so excuse me if I remain skeptical of your denial of your own power.
*yeah I mention Europe a lot, because W Europe is where I live.
My black Nigerian friend was refused entry to a nightclub because the bouncer wouldn’t accept her provisory ID as a valid document since he supposedly had never seen one before. Later she found out her African-American friend was allowed entry to that same nightclub on that same night with the exact same provisory ID, except his indicated he was an American citizen. And I live in Brazil, in case that makes any difference. Being an American citizen will always carry some weight outside America, and admitting it doesn’t mean denying certain groups are victims of racism both inside and outside the US.
To say nothing of the fact that we’re having this conversation in your language, not ours, using your terminology and not ours. Or of the fact that the rest of us are expected to learn your language, and risk not getting a job in our home countries if we’re not fluent, while you get to be patted on the back for learning five words of spanish.
Or that the rest of the world is and has to be aware of your culture, but you really don’t have to make an effort to learn anybody else’s, language aside. If I don’t know who your President is, that makes me ignorant in my own country. You aren’t really expected to be able to recognize the leaders of foreign nations. We are expected to take your culture and your media as our defaults, even though it makes no fucking sense half the time. And we have no control over any of this – all the control is in your hands.
And yes, like the others pointed out, black americans are first and foremost americans. Maybe we can’t tell when you’re walking down the street, but we can the moment you open your mouth and people’s treatment of you will be adjusted accordingly – namely, you’ll be treated better than the black folks from over here, people will assume you have money, people won’t assume you’re an illegal immigrant, etc
I lost my father to Pokemon Go and I regret so many life decisions. I’m the one who told him about the game. I’m the one who initially encouraged him. What have I done?
Now he starts every phone call with a Pokemon update. He gets all the names wrong and asks me what a Dragonite is called every time he brings up the “fat fighting orange dragon”
It’s gotten so bad he’s started watching the anime on Netflix. Help.
Okay adding to this. My dad isn’t great at remembering the names of things. So during our pokemon update phone calls, he says shit like this:
“I have a cool pineapple head now!”
“I was down to my last stripey ball trying to catch the blue dragon snake. I told him if he ran away I was gonna be so mad.”
“And the gym had one of those big fat orange dragons!” (he still can’t remember what a Dragonite is called)
BUT THEN. but then. he’s also like, OUTRAGEOUSLY into it now? He’s level 27 and talks about how “the gym wars are brutal, babe,” and how long it takes to take down a level 10 gym? (LEVEL T E N)
And a couple weeks ago he called me to talk about the merits of the old-style Gyrados (which he pronounces guy-rad-os sorry I can’t stop him) that has the dragon breath move, versus the new ones that don’t because Niantic made a change. And he has like 6 Gyrados because his work is by a Magikarp nest or something? HOW MANY fucking magikarp do you catch for 6 gyrados? He’s about to evolve two more. H E L P.
and he says shit like, “Learning about individualized values really radicalized my thinking.” and he means it. Before he evolves ANY pokemon he googles CP estimates and has a pokemon calculator??
This morning he called me because he finally has enough Dratini candy to evolve a fat fighting dragon and wanted to talk about which Dragonair he should evolve. (One with high CP but bad IVs, one with medium-high CP, but okay IVs, and one with the lowest CP of the 3, but A+ IVs) And at this point he’s so far beyond my skill with the game (he’s been higher-leveled than me for months now) that I don’t even know what to tell him. I literally can’t advise him.
My father is more of a pokemon master than I ever was. The other day he texted me the team rocket theme song.
Team Instinct. I told him I was Team Valor when I first told him about the game and he was like, “Okay I’ll join your team babe!”
And then idk he forgot?? And when his account crashed after a week he did a Pikachu restart (that should have tipped me off about the impending obession tbh) and he picked Instinct again.
I ain’t even mad bruh. He so clearly belongs in Instinct. He’s happy there. It’s his natural habitat. Before work he goes and meets up with some other Instinct people to take the Georgetown Cupcake gym in DC. It’s super cute.
My dad will be your Team Instinct dad if you need one
So my dad has always been in the habit of getting to work early. I don’t know wtf he used to do, but now when he gets in early, he goes to the Georgetown Cupcake gym in DC and apparently teams up with “some friends I’ve never met” to take down the gym for Team Instinct.
Then he goes to work and keeps the game open so he can grab Magikarp every couple minutes. Apparently his work is like ON a friggin nest.
He keeps his Pokemon Go habit a secret at work. Nobody knows. On his lunch break, he says, “hey I’m gonna go for a walk” and goes on a 12-pokestop loop. He makes sure to hit up the local Dratini and Pikachu nests (the presence of which is UNFAIR AF). He also take a few minutes to reinforce ‘his’ gym, by which point has been under attack a few times.
At work, he keeps his phone on data instead of wifi (he has unlimited data. For some godforsaken reason he went through 30GB/mo BEFORE Pokemon Go.) because that means his avatar jumps around a bit more?? He says he opens and closes the app a few times to reset it and get the GPS connection to reset and nab him a few pokemon.
Apparently he gets about 140 pokeballs a day. And goes through them all.
This got a new batch of notes, so here’s a Dad Update.
He has 114 Pikachu candy. I hate him. Apparently he’s watching the anime almost every night. He’s on season 2. I think he’s just gonna go through and watch it A L L which is a prospect so terrifying it needs no explanation.
Out of the 6 Gyrados he’s evolved, he’s kept the top 3. He sent me some screencaps the other day of his current top-contender Magikarp and the pokedex entry, where you can see he’s caught 585 of them.
Five hundred eighty five. Who tf has TIME for that??
Apparently he still hasn’t decided which Magikarp to evolve.
He should make level 28 in a day or so.
this dad will truly protect the world from devastation
My dad works on my college campus and every night when he comes home he comes to my room right away and tells me about all the pokemon he caught that day.
Oh look, I’m on my dash again. Seems as good a time as any for an update. I bought him a yellow PoGo keychain for xmas. I will let you know how he responds when I give it to him:
He has started wearing yellow shoes for #TeamInstinct pride lol:
And he’s started wearing a pikachu tshirt. He is on season 4 of the anime. He watches EVERY EPISODE in order. I’m dying. He’s level 30, going on 31. He has over 9 gyrados now, and has enough candy for two more, but doesn’t see the point. He’s about to get his 4th dragonite. One of his dragonite has been stuck at the top of a level 10 gym for like 3 weeks now, since before he hit level 30, and he’s upset he can’t get it back to power it up.
I need to take my morning meds but the only liquid I have is tequila…is this a road worth going down at 10am or am I better off dry swallowing?
Do you have tap water maybe? I don’t know what you’re taking but that just sounds like a bad idea
Hi everybody, I’m a dumbass who forgot tap water exists.
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