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Please do not forget Judo Fighter, Fethi Noirine, who withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics in solidarity with Palestine.

Free Palestine🇵🇸

While I do think there are some inherent similarities between mcu!Sam and Steve, I also think there are some big, key differences that is going to make Sam!cap so interesting. Sam is actually a soldier. He’s been a part of the military. He’s seen the not just the horrors of war, the idealistic kids being killed or turned into killers, BUT he’s also seen just how bad the military complex is. He’s seen how poorly the VA is funded, how many vets are left behind. He saw people who joined the military simply to murder foreigners, or had misplaced and racist ideas of the war in the middle east. His experience and perspective on it is, I believe, a lot more nuanced than Steve’s is, and a lot more realistic. A bit of a side note on this, but I was just thinking about Sam’s perspective on Bucky in winter soldier - he’s seen how war transforms men, he’s seen the aftermath in a way Steve hasn’t, and knows that sometimes people can’t come back from it. He’s not wrong to point out the dangers and disagree with Steve on how to approach the situation (this is the point! Sam has different reasoning + opinions than Steve! regularly! They share a lot of similar morality and characteristics, but they’re also very different!).

I think Sam, while still headstrong and even a bit reckless at times, is more conscious of his decisions (and the potential consequences of them), mainly because he has to be. He’s a black man living in America, he doesn’t have the luxury of just doing whatever the fuck he wants, whether he’s cap or not.  Plus he actually understands the experience of being marginalized (and specifically a black person) in modern america in a way Steve just can’t. He has more patience, and has more to consider when making decisions about his actions as cap. Moreover, he likely feels more responsibility, and every decision bears more weight. He is absolutely carrying the mantle as his own, but there is a legacy before him that people will compare him to no matter what. He’ll also face far more criticism for each mistake, and every decision will be picked apart in a different way than Steve’s ever were. That’s got to impact on his character development and his story as a whole, and thats going to be interesting to watch unfold. 

This doesn’t mean though that he holds back, or that he won’t step in when there’s something wrong going on. He still has his own moral code and set of values that he sticks to strongly, even in the face of danger/ostracization (exhibit A being him adamant against the accords, and being the first member of the avengers to argue against them). I think it’s more that he has to be diplomatic about certain things, or at least that he’s aware of how his actions will be perceived differently than Steve’s would, and that influences his decisions. 

There’s also some obvious differences too, like Sam has a far different family dynamic than Steve did/does (pls can we see this @ Marvel), and of course different personality traits, life experience, and so on. We haven’t seen nearly enough of Sam as an entity on his own, and I hope we get to experience that more in TFATWS. There is still definitely strong parallels between Steve and Sam’s ethos, but they’re still distinct characters and I want to see Sam Wilson explored!

Anyways I was just having some thoughts (and honestly I’m barely scratching the surface on this topic) and wanted to write them out so feel free to tell me i’m wrong and why, and honestly pls discuss your opinions (and what you want or are looking forward to with Sam as cap)!

Gather ‘round, friends! Class is in session!

(I hope this is the last time I have to make this post, honestly.)

Reasons why it’s okay to criticize or dislike Shannon that have nothing to do with Buddie:

❌ Spoke of her son as if he were a burden by making sure Eddie knew how much she suffered while raising Christopher alone.

❌ Believed her son must hate her because she “did this to him” (“made” him have CP), which is her way of saying that Christopher must not like who he is just because he has a disability.

❌ Sees Christopher’s condition as a sign that she did something wrong, aka she was punished for a mistake she must have made while pregnant.

❌ She thought she “could make up for it” by researching treatments and therapies - Again, viewed Christopher’s disability as a mistake she had to atone for/fix, rather than accept and embrace who he was.

❌ Found the time and effort required to get Christopher the help he needed “so overwhelming and exhausting” that she “needed a break”, thus prioritizing her feelings over those of her son, the disabled person who can never get a day off from the life he was given.

❌ Begged to see Christopher only to realize she still wasn’t committed to being the mother he deserved.

Reasons why it’s okay to criticize or dislike Ana that have nothing to do with Buddie:

❌ She was employed by an inclusive school, meaning disabled students are supposed to be treated the same as their able-bodied classmates in all aspects of education, yet when Christopher fell off the skateboard, she took it as a sign that he shouldn’t do it all because his limitations were insurmountable.

(We know this to be false because of the adaptive skateboard scene, so the takeaway is that she defines Christopher by what he can’t do rather than what he is capable of.)

❌ She views Christopher as a “very sensitive boy” so Eddie should be “cautious” about telling him they’re together.

Sensitivity is not a negative personality trait. It’s important to allow ourselves to feel. But in this context? Ana believes Christopher’s sensitivity is something that might cause a problem for Eddie if he doesn’t react the way they hope.

Referring to anybody as “very” or “too” sensitive is an attempt to dismiss or invalidate their reaction because it makes someone else uncomfortable.

No adult, especially not one that worked with children whose minds function “differently”, should ever say those words about a little boy.

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we need to change the part of the history where yt ppl are given credit for “discovering” things that were never lost and were known by the indigenous ppl in the first place 

also they need to change the name officially 👌🏾

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