"autism be damned my kid can work a grill" reminds me of this time my therapist told me he met a little girl who's special interest was deep fryers
I love autistic people
i need to stop
i think lots of americans have a hard time conceptualizing china as a place where people exist in because they don’t really compare chinese things to american things, like
“the chinese government vanishes you for saying the wrong thing!”
the chinese government does indeed do things in a v extreme way, but even in america, there are lots of things you can say that will get you put on a list, that will get you investigated, visited by the secret service, maybe even arrested, etc. etc.
“chinese internet users are rabid and will harass anyone who speaks out against their country”
that literally applies to americans too
“how can chinese people let themselves suffer horrible working conditions for so little pay?”
that can be asked of americans too, and the answer comes down to: because the government doesn’t want to increase wages and shit
“how are chinese people content to live under such a regime?”
the same could be asked of americans, but we all know the answer to that, cause here in america, protests get violently suppressed and activists get assassinated
like, when you really start to looking at the similarities, it really becomes startlingly clear that even if things are different there, the reality is that the life of an average american has more similarities to the life of an average chinese than to the american elite
its kind of insane how many people in the notes respond to a post that says “you should really be more sympathetic and consider chinese people humans instead of racist caricatures” with “no americans number one we have to get more racist” because the idea that people outside of the american borders are humans too is just too threatening to american exceptionalism
no wonder why americans struggle so hard with the whole stop asian hate thing; they barely see us as humans
A bit outside the China vs Western countries context but I think her point still fits.
chinese, american, iranian, etc., in the end we’re all just people living lives under the yoke of global imperialism and oppression
🌕 moon dates for 2022 🌕
oh you’re neurodivergent? reblog with the song stuck in your head and the task you’re currently procrastinating on
I'm LEGITIMATELY crying omg he's PAINTING and it's ART and it's GOOD AHHH.
i just remembered dogs are colorblind so the red stem is because she thought that was green im crying
She's a pretty smart dog maybe she learned color theory
Adjusted for Red-Green Colour Blindness:
So... it might have looked something like this:
alone in my wizard tower googling "wizards kissing"
