#ProgrezTribe is a politically progressive Discord server where social issues are discussed in simple language, in either Japanese or English. If you're learning Japanese, join our conversations about queer/feminist politics etc. in simple Japanese! https://t.co/fTqgAQwCfs

I never understand the enjoyment and excitement that these people seem to feel by being one with authority, power, and inhumanity.

Japanese television is warning people in northern Japan that there is a very serious risk of a 3-meter tsunami hitting the coast very soon. People living on the coast are being warned to evacuate their houses immediately and head to somewhere safe. https://t.co/1gKfoFjOvM

If you jump in and start saying “law is law” when we are talking about changing the law, you not only sound stupid, but you’re actively stalling the conversation.

The anti-immigrant cruelty in Japan.

/ someone using double quotation marks for gender pronouns and another person getting offended because they interpreted it as an emphasis (like in Japanese) instead of a sarcastic quote-like expression (like in English). This one was pretty difficult to handle, too.

/ But I didn't know how to explain that without making it sound like I was gaslighting them to defend the anti-Semites. So I ended up saying, after explaining what I thought was the case, "but I don't know, maybe they said Jews." A similar thing happened a couple weeks ago with /

/ a conversation in Japanese among Japanese exchange students that they had overheard. As someone who'd grown up mostly in Japan, I knew people wouldn't say ジュウ to refer to Jewish people (they most likely say ユダヤ人) and my guess was they probably said 10 (じゅう) instead. /

It always feels awkward when someone believes they have been wronged but in fact they have only misunderstood the grammar or expression because it's their second language. When I was in college, a friend of mine took issue with what they perceived to be a reference to "Jews" in /

I am sad.

I never went into the closet. The society built it around me, and it follows me everywhere.

Me talking about Karurazor, an openly bisexual male comedian who recently married a woman, and the same-old biphobic comments people are spouting out like "you said you were bi!"

This. I wonder what it feels like to be weaponized and politicized by one's own parent.

Friend: Someone told me Discord is like Slack but for younger people. Me: That's micro-aggression.

A quick overview of xenophobia in post-WWII Japan

You need to be racist first to be misled by racist lies.

https://t.co/J4kNf5dDR0

The person in photo is said to have approached the OP and showed them his phone that said "men shouldn't wear lipstick like women do - you should be ashamed!"

Oh I want to tell that guy something queerphobic but unfortunately I don't speak their langu… wait, I have exactly what I need, the translation app!

A new video on how we should spend less time trying to be present everywhere and thus spreading ourselves too thin, and instead put in more time into crafting things that we love creating. YouTube (with English subtitles) https://t.co/mHqZlPu0a4

I subtitled queer Sci-Fi anime Lost Stars Planet https://t.co/Fl4uQEfYJ2