Let's Scream for Equal Rights and No Oppression

August 21st

Are you ready for a scream? 

I'm ready for a scream. 

Today I woke up to something disturbing, if you live in Sweden and aren't completely turnt away from social media, you probably know that there's a storm about the Berg brothers. Two days ago, Bröderna Berg, as they call themselves on YouTube, uploaded a video that has gotten some well deserved criticism.

TNKVRT (by Danny Lam) on Instagram is one of my favourite interactive account that shows different oppression through news, personal stories and well thought out texts. He writes it in simple ways for many people to understand both politics and oppression with access on their phones. He is a great influencer with a good analysis and the ability to recieve criticism without conflict. If you aren't following him, do so, NOW. I want to quote his text about Bröderna Berg, and if you've already read it, you can skip it:

"TW: N-word in the video.

Here we have two 'influencers' with over 70 000 followers on YT. Two white men with a ton of young followers. Bröderna Berg, also known as Jockiboois two brothers Christofer and Jakob, recently published a video where they ask eachother questions. One of the questions were if they'd rather have sex with an african or get three hornet stings on the glans. A "Hell no!" comes out of Christofer's mouth, but he's told as a comfort that africans can also be pretty. The N-word is mentioned, as well as the objectification of women in terms of, "P.A.P. = pussy as pussy"

What in the hell are you guys doing, Christofer Berg and Jakob Berg? It is pure racism to have a dilemma where black women are just as bad as having hornets sting you."

The quote keeps on going onto the phobic things Christofer have said about HBTQIA+ people, however, him saying that it's 'unnatural', we have a lot of those misconceptions today. In fact, I've been told by many homosexual people that they are mutants just because of their homosexuality. According to me, that's just wrong. I've been googling it trying to comfort them saying that they're not mutants (although, we should all come to terms with the fact that mutation is ok, right?). Fact is, there is not that much research dedicated to homosexuality itself (especially not lesbians) and wheter or not it's a mutation. However I did find something interesting a couple of months back about hyenas. I can't remember the scenario or how/why hyenas were somewhat homosexuals, I just remember that was kind of a breakthrough knowing that if human lesbians were mutants, so were the hyenas. Or the other way around! If hyenas are lesbians, are human lesbians mutants then? 

Although this is very interesting it's not what my scream was about, was it now? After reading Danny Lam's text and watching that despicable clip I took it upon myself to write a few lines on My Story. Mostly about what we as outsiders can do. What white people can do. Although I get opressed because of my gender and who I chose to be with (I'm a pansexual so when I'm with guys I don't get oppressed), I do not experience the biggest oppression in the world, skin colour, race - whatever you want to call it. But I do know, that if you're not a racist you have to be an anti-racist. There's nothing in between. If someone gets bullied, the quite bystanders are just as bad for the bullied as the bully. We can't be quite and pretend that we're anti racists, that we're feminists or fight for women, that we're proud friends, family and supporters of HBTQIA+ people. We have to speak. We have to scream. Because until the day we're all free - none of us are. If we're quite, if don't take action - then who's side are we really on??? 

I push out the negativity in my life. For so long I handled it within, in some ways. But I'm tired of it. If I can find a negative source, within my reach, that destroys me, that affects me. I will push it out. I told my followers to stop following these people. These people didn't just do a mistake. This is who they are. In the beginning of the clip they tell the viewers why they vote for SD, a racist party gunning for winning the election. It's not a mistake to call people of colour the N word, compare human beings to hornet stings, just because they have a different colour of their skin, or to say "pussy as pussy", because objectification of women and people of colour is in their nature. 

Jakob later told on his account that he won't take in anything that anyone says about or to him. He has gotten a lot of hate since this video and therefore I'm not really sure if he means the criticism itself or just all the hate and threats. But then again, he wrote to someone in his comment section that he's been told by pretty much 30 000 people that this was so wrong so he gets it. Yet, there is no such thing as a little comment on the wrong doing itself nor an apology what so ever. That is pure bullshit. 

By the way, I was going to do one small background check before writing this and it turns out that the most famous one of the brothers have broken contact with the other brothers because of their fucked up views on society and people around them. 

Although this text definitely won't go viral, nor even be seen by more than 30 people, writing has always been one of the ways I get to tell the world my message. The thing is, like the Berg Brothers' dilemma, you can only chose one. Racist or anti racist? Misogynist or feminist? HBTQIA+ supporter or not? You can't be the quite bystander. You are either with us or against us. It's time to tell the world who you are. Take a stand.