21 year old boricua grrrl looking for the Marceline to my Princess Bubblegum. My name is Melanie.

“You wanna say [the n-word] but you don’t want to be followed around a store. You want to say [the n-word] but you don’t want to be discriminated on by police. You want to say [the n-word] but you don’t want to not be able to get a fucking cab in the rain. You wanna act like you gonna be a n——- then be a fucking n——- and live a n——- life, if not, then keep that shit out of your mouth.”
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@JasFly

This whole video is perfection.

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#race  #racism  #racial prejudice  #people of colour  #PoC  #whiteness  #oppression  #privilege  #n-word  #slur  

Do you know what, fuck everything I said today about “white privelege.”

fromonesurvivortoanother:

cijithegeek:

notesonascandal:

reverseracism:

ricksantorum-2012:

londonbones:

After enough research I’ve reverted to me original conclusion that the term “white privilege” essentially means that racism is all “whitey’s” fault and has nothing to do with evolutionary biology or tribal mentality and the only way to solve it is for “whitey” to feel shamed for his own race. And I think I now know how so many people got brainwashed into it. It’s from these ultra PC insane social justice slacktivist who will either bully and shame people into submission or trick people with deceptive and convoluted languages or other things. Do you know what? I get it, whites do get a lot of perks in western society but it’s not my fucking fault. My race is not something I can control and I can try to fight for the rights of others but you can’t expect me to go around feeling sorry for privilege that I never asked for and I can’t control. Let me ask you something, do you think that Muslim men are somehow culpable for all the oppression that Islamic extremists have done? Because that’s essentially the same thing you are suggesting, that I’m somehow culpable for the genocide of Native American’s and the enslavement of Africans just because I happen to be born white. Do you know what? You may have brainwashed everyone else but you with your bullshit but you will never brainwash me!

This!!!!! We refuse to apologize. We will NOT bow down like slaves because of what our ancestors did!! White people are being targeted everywhere and frankly we’re sick of it. You will not brainwash us into thinking we’re evil when we represent all that is good and holy in this world. Evolutionary biology puts some people ahead of others….. so what?? We should celebrate this instead of trying to repress it! 

White people = good

PoC = bad

Most likely ricksantorum-2012 has argued that there’s good and bad in every race and that no one should be generalized.

“We represent all that is good and holy in this world” will turn into “DON’T GENERALIZE ALL WHITE PEOPLE! I’M NOT LIKE THAT!!” in about 45 seconds. 

i dont understand

i can’t tell if this is poe’s law or some sort of super-evolved version of it.

#LOL  #too much  #privilege  #white privilege  #racism  

People who suggest that everyone can and should be vegans annoy me

ayiman:

selchieproductions:

I just saw someone suggest that the world would be an infinitely better place if everyone was vegan - even ‘Peruvian indigenous villages’ because we live in ‘a developed world’. In short the person is being purposely vague but ultimately suggesting making contact with uncontacted tribes in order to force them to become vegans; talk about turning the quest for global veganism into a genocide project. 

 Establishing contact with isolated tribes is a sure way to exterminate at least 50-90% of their population and if you do it in order to force a vegan lifestyle upon people who live in areas where an entirely vegan lifestyle just isn’t viable, you’d be sure to have said indigenous group entirely gone from the face of the planet in less than a year.

But at least those pesky natives wouldn’t be eating meat, am I right?

Not to mention that veganism, despite all it’s positive sides, isn’t as eco-friendly and wonderful as people would like to think; one of the reasons why the Brazilian Enawene Nawe tribe is currently being driven away from their lands is so that people can use their ancestral lands to grow soy for  vegans and the meat industry alike, while simultaneously pumping out loads of pesticides into the rivers in the area, thereby making a pescaterian tribe (the Enawene Nawe don’t eat meat) lose their main source of food as the rivers are more or less killed by the poison dumped in them.

The thing that bugs me, that always bugged me, was this complete denial of the circumstances, conditions and even the moral framework of non-western people.

Nobody thinks about the destruction of healthy ecosystems for farming, rising commodity prices in production zones (like how quinoa is too expensive for Bolivians to buy it, despite growing and relying on it for centuries), or how the adoption of westernized diets has created a public health crisis.

Then there’s the moralizing.  This universalist ideology that declares that in order to live at the apex of ethical humanity, we must all convert to veganism, which will in turn solve all manner of environmental issues and end the brutal factory farm system, praise God.

And sure, industrial-level agriculture is problematic, and the meat industry in particular is brutal.  There is something seriously wrong with how we get our food, and there is nothing wrong with frank, serious discussions about how we feed ourselves.  The way that life, labour and the environment is exploited demands serious critical examination.

But veganism is a lot more than that.  It’s a code, a way of life which derives all of it’s legitimacy and authority by uncritically appealing to Western concepts of humanity and morality.  In seeking to impose a universal, moral veganism, it’s adherents utterly fail to account for views and philosophies which exist outside of the dominant/normative power structure and, in point of fact, denies their legitimacy and worth completely.  That’s pretty fucked up and it accounts for the very real racist undertones in arguments levelled against indigenous people who hunt to support themselves.  Witness the hue and cry of the animal rights community over Newfoundland’s seal hunt, and see how many times you can pick out words like savage.

I can guarantee that I do not hunt for the reasons that these people think I hunt, and I do not approach the taking of a life in the way that these people believe I do.

And frankly, I’d rather wear real wool than something that was made with plastics.  The oil industry isn’t really known for it’s environmental stewardship, and that shit is in my backyard.

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#vegan  #militant vegan  #veganism  #dietary choices  #food  #privilege  #oppression  #whiteness  #power  #stigma  #moral  #ethics  #animal rights  #vegetarian  #vegetarianism  #poverty  #choice  

I mean, where the fuck does a white person get off telling POC to stop infighting/colorism

lebanesepoppyseed:

…yet totally doesn’t want to acknowledge their privilege and blatant racism? & then quotes MLK Jr at people?

That is the most whitesplaining bullshit I have read in a while.

Unfortunately, at this point, MLK Jr’s legacy has been co-opted by racist white supremacist whitesplainers and used to shout us down, tell us how to go about our emancipation and our culture, how to erroneously navigate a white supremacist society and fight against it, and to ultimately shut us up.

All mentions of MLK Jr. immediately makes me see what the person is really saying-“Stop acting uppity. Act like how white history told me MLK Jr. acted, which is a supremacist ploy wrapped up in hokey pacifist bullshit to trick you into not doing what really gets you your rights, and instead castrates you from your anger and your power. Do not challenge me. Do no fight my supremacist culture.”

#rage rage rage rage rage  #racism  #whitesplaining  #appropriation  #history  #culture  #POC  #anti-black  #privilege  #rights  #emancipation  #struggle  #white supremacy  #MLK Jr  #Martin Luther King Jr.  #white woman tears  

“We need to acknowledge that we cannot know what it’s like to be an oppressed racial minority. Cannot. The end. Period. We don’t know because we’re queer, because we’re disabled, because we’re Jewish, because we were the nerdy kid in school. These things may have hurt us severely, but we need to stop playing Oppression Olympics and acknowledge that when we’re talking about race we Do. Not. Know. No more metaphors.

We need to accept that when a person of color tells us we’ve fucked up, the answer is not to get defensive. When we get that instinct to say “geez, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it that way at all,” it’s time to stop right now. It doesn’t matter how you meant it. It really doesn’t. Someone doesn’t have to have racism in their heart to do something racist. And doing something racist doesn’t make you an evil person who can never do good again, should never be an activist, should run off and hide in a hole somewhere. It means you did something hurtful, you made a big mistake, and you need to own that mistake. You need to say “I’m sorry.” Full stop. I’m sorry. And if the person who called you out is generous enough to take time to explain what you did wrong, you need to have a seat and listen.”
– White Feminists: It’s Time to Put Up or Shut Up on Race (via fromonesurvivortoanother)

#race  #racism  #white privilege  #feminism  #feminist  #privilege  #intersectionality  #resources  

“Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to say you’re not a racist; not being racist — or a sexist or a homophobe — is a constant, arduous process of unlearning, of being uncomfortable, of eating crow and being humbled and re-evaluating. It’s probably hard to start that process if you’ve been told that every thought you have is golden and should be given voice, and that people who are offended by what you say are hypersensitive simpletons.”
– PostBourgie (via postponelife, meowsense) (via jadedfucker) (via freshmouthgoddess) (via soydulcedeleche) (via super-eklectic1) (via dumbthingswhitepplsay)

#Racism  #racist  #white folk  #privilege  #quotes  

→ Dumb Things White People Say: ahandsomeshark: karnythia: I will never understand why you are only...

ahandsomeshark:

karnythia:

I will never understand why you are only considered well rounded educationally if you read specific fictional books in Western canon. This idea that you must read Melville, Lovecraft, Shakespeare, Austen, etc. is rooted in the white supremacist delusion that…

#more importantly Shakespeare is just evil  #or rather Hamlet  #Hamlet is evil  #literature  #privilege  

→ Not Quite Certain: Cis privilege and voyeurism

ceasesilence:

authelle:

“156) I wish I was mtf… but I am and always have been female.”

First of all, trans women also are and always have been female. So with the upfront cissexism out of the way, let’s consider this person’s wish to be trans. This is analogous to the statement,…

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#lgbt  #trans*  #transgender  #cissexism  #privilege  

“Traditionally, in American society, it is the members of oppressed, objectified groups who are expected to stretch out and bridge the gap between the actualities of our lives and the consciousness of our oppressor. In other words, it is the responsibility of the oppressed to teach the oppressors their mistakes. I am responsible for educating teachers who dismiss my children’s culture in school. Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.”
–

Audre Lorde, “Age, Race and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (via uprightcitizens)

Yeah I don’t need to educate you, ok.

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#audre lorde  #race  #homophobia  #sexism  #racism  #feminism  #privilege  #entitlement  

→ Not Quite Certain: "You're judging all white men for the actions of a few! That's not fair!"

thefremen:

dionthesocialistt:

I’m sorry, but the moment you try and discredit entire equality movements just because you don’t feel like you’ve done anything wrong, you’ve effectively tried to make that movement about you. Think about that for a second; you think that oppressed…

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#racism  #sexism  #feminism  #oppression  #privilege  

“

[W]hile right-wing commentators have often accused African-Americans and other minorities of exploiting their “victimhood,” the Right has learned over many decades the political power that comes from framing issues as “hey, we’re the victims here.” And, often the Right’s exaggerated “victimhood” has been accompanied by violence toward the supposed “victimizers.”

For instance, in the South of the 1950s and 1960s, white segregationists portrayed themselves as the victims of “outside agitators” and a “liberal Northern press” intent on destroying the South’s “traditional way of life,” i.e. white supremacy. Thus, many white racists saw the murder of civil rights workers as a legitimate act of self-defense, the protection of “states’ rights.”

This chip-on-the-shoulder “victimhood” has remained an element of American right-wing politics ever since. Whenever truly discriminated-against groups, such as blacks and women, have demanded their rights, the Right has cast the reforms as attacks on American traditions.

In recent years when gays have sought basic civil rights, their struggle has been spun as an aggressive “gay agenda” assaulting Christian values. That was the ugly climate in 1978 when a conservative San Francisco city official, Dan White, assassinated Harvey Milk, California’s first openly gay elected public official, and his political ally, Mayor George Moscone.

More recently as gays have sought the right to marry, they are accused of trying to destroy the institution of marriage. A “Defense of Marriage Act” is deemed necessary to protect heterosexual couples. You see, even though the gays are the ones actually facing discrimination, they are portrayed as the “victimizers” and heterosexual couples are the “victims.”

In many other cases, the Right has found “victimhood” a powerful political motivator. For instance, the Right rallied white male college students around their “persecution” from “political correctness,” which often involved a college administration punishing boorish conduct like shouting racial slurs at blacks and yelling sexual insults at women and gays.

”
–

Dangerous Right-Wing ‘Victimhood’ (via ryking)

You can also see this in transphobic and transmisogynistic, conservative radical feminists and others as they begin to embrace exterminationist rhetoric and claim they are the ones being discriminated against.

(via lucypaw)

Absolutely. I’m pretty sure it pops up on every axis of privilege sooner or later. I’ve run into it with regards to ableism. It’s just so haaaaard for people to tolerate my autistic differences and it’s really unfair of me to expect them to make such an effort. Why am I so harsh? They didn’t claim that I was oppressing them, but they did say it was unfair of me to expect them to just get used to my oddness, and that is well on the way to that point.

So I really do think this is a generally mentality that pops up alongside privilege of whichever form we can think of.

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#heterosexism  #oppression  #racism  #sexism  #transmisogyny  #privilege  #right wing