Take a shot every time you see the words ‘misandry’ or ‘men’s right’s on Tumblr.
id be real drunk if you’re talking about a shot of vodka
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“Sweetheart,” this all started because Dion directly addressed white folk and told us to “collect your people” on his behalf. He addressed white people, and so this was a conversation with white people.
Dion made a post, and I reblogged asking sincere questions about how he “expects” me to monitor Tumblr all the time and fight every battle on behalf of POC, and I expressed concern about speaking for POC when I have white privilege, and I was met with nothing but disrespect, condescension, and sexist insults. Either Dion is lazy, or he’s talking out of his ass; your pick.
So, “sweetheart,” as your buddy Dion likes to say, fuck off. You want to tell me what to do, insult me when I ask questions, and then say I don’t belong in the conversation you started with my race? If you want to exclude people from the conversation, then don’t expect them to fight for your rights. “Collect” the garbage all by yourself, and see how that works out.
As for intersectionality, you know nothing about me, my background, my sexuality or my health status, but you want to play Oppression Olympics? Good job fighting racism by reducing someone you don’t know to the color of their skin.
Hi, girl-non-grata!
As a white person, I’ve learnt to stick up for PoC without talking from their P.O.V. Example: “hey other white person, I’ve read from so-and-so [a poc] on How To Not Be A Shit White Person. as a white person myself, I cannot say the n-word. It has nothing to do with ‘not being hardcore enough’, but because it dehumanizes them. *gives quote from Black Person on the n-word*”
It’s real easy, and White People are more likely to listen because they’re hearing it from someone who’s relatable! Haha
1. Saying ‘sweetheart’ at the beginning to give a sarcastic snark to Dion was basically saying “let me address sexism before racism” - Dion has a right to be mad/disdained toward us. I’m sure he’d hear the same argument over and over again.
2. Us collecting our people is not on Dion’s behalf, but on all Black People’s. It wasn’t a conversation with white people, it was a show of emotion/outrage/discontent from a victim of racism to his blog. He is an individual who needed to let off steam, and when we act as allies, we should “collect” [haha] our own when it tires them. They get badgered 24/7. We’re basically saying the same thing they say once we learn (as much as any white person can) their points of view.
3. You don’t have to begin to collect white people straight away. You can begin to learn about the intensity and the detailed sections of racism. Then once it ‘clicks’ and you feel up for it, you can teach.
4. Dion does not want you, personally to fight every battle. To us, it isn’t a battle, it’s not personal, that’s why it’s sometimes more clearer in our minds and easier for us to deal w/ such people.
5. Although Dion did say words like “sweetheart” in a sarcastic/snarky way, he has every right to. Racism cannot compare. Being Black in this world does not compare to being a Woman. Look at yourself right now: fighting against the already-marginalized people.
6. Your reblogs were never ‘sincere’ from the beginning. You said the words “how do you expect—?” It’s not expecting: How can Dion expect the majority of White People to help him out when without asking, nobody did. People consisently assume Black Men can battle against Racism alone. I’m sure they can. But they do need and want support. Dion follows me: he treats me nicely. I’m a white woman, just like yourself. But I know the respectable boundaries. We’re not close, we don’t snuggle, but I know he’s decent.
7. Dion does not need to have a picnic with you, talk about your likes and dislikes and sing Kumbaya for him to see that you lack the know-how on intersectionality. As a woman/feminist, I’m sure you know that when another white dude comes into the picture and says “stop talking about feminism, you’re not fighting for anything imperticular, we will not change for you. If a male tells you you’re disgusting for having a cunt, we will not agree/be there for you. Have fun dealing with misogyny by yourself! Ha!” - compare that to Dion’s experience w/ you. Except times it by a million.
8. As for you being defensive when called a White Person: You’re defensive because you’ve had the privilege all your life as just being called a ‘person’. Your skin colour has never been put into a conversation before. Suddenly when you hear “white person”, you feel like how PoC feel everyday: you’re reduced to nothing but a skin colour. Except only for a quick second. These PoC are used to how this feels. Except I can guarantee that it’s worse.
You need to realize that you’re putting being called a White Person [A TEMPORARY PAIN] before being called the n-word [THE EVERLASTING STRUGGLE OF BEING BLACK IN THE WORLD OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU]
(it’s not just the n-word: there’s many words to dehumanize PoC.]
I know you’ve gotten yourself into quite a pickle/mess right now on the interwebz, but it’s not too late to clean yourself up. Apologize sincerely, point out where you went wrong, and move on to be a better person.
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“I am angry”
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everythingculturalappropriation:
I’m so pissed off right now. One of our family friends came around and asked if I could knit something for a couple of people in my mom’s church who are having babies. I pointed out that one of them are an interracial couple and it would be nice to give them a toy that was brown and not white.
The words politically correct and gollywog was mentioned.
I am fucking livid right now. WHITE IS NOT THE FUCKING DEFAULT. Why do you think they would be offended to get a brown doll but would appreciate getting a white one. And then backtracking and saying that the baby might be really light skinned so why not make it white anyway.
FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU.
I could only side eye her and tell her that’s racist and wrong. I couldn’t swear her out like I wanted to.
:|
Why can’t anyone on tumblr wrap their bothered, busy little heads around the fact that not all white people do this and it is hurtful and offense to the ones who don’t do these things? And don’t even start giving me the pile of bullshit about reverse racism, this is just petty.
BAWWWWWWWW I AM A GOOD WHITE PERSON BAWWWWWWWWWWWW REVERSE RAYCIZMZ BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW MY FEEEFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS
Hi, everythingculturalappropriation
This is a post by dank-potion that shows how and why you’re wrong:
”“Not all White People are Like That”
This is easily the most derailing comment that I get, because it does three very harmful things.
First, it manipulates the situation. It makes me (the actual oppressed of race relations) look like the perpetrator. Instead of examining or asking me why I feel disdain toward white people, this statement takes a legitimate problem and makes it about the white person’s temporary feelings instead of a black person’s permanent pain. When you hear someone’s actual lived experience, piled with centuries of degradation and essentially tell them your feelings are more important, that is white supremacy.
Secondly, it invalidates my past experiences. In short, “not all white people are like that” is a rough translation to “you are crazy, you come across some of the bad ones and have the audacity to feel the way you do”, which would be a fair argument, if the entire world hasn’t been a product of white supremacy for the past several centuries. My distrust towards white people is a very necessary tool for survival. It comes from a lack of options. True allies don’t need automatic reassurance; they know they’ve entered a space where they have to prove themselves, because logic, history and lived experience tell us they’re the oppressor.
Lastly, it silences PoC and makes them feel even more isolated. When you tell me that I am not allowed to feel the way I do, while simultaneously stating that having safe spaces for Black People is isolating and doesn’t help race relations, all I’m hearing is “be quiet and stay oppressed, stay marginalized”.
Fine, all white people are not like that, but I reserve the right to be skeptical of every white person I come across, because factually, textually and historically, most white people have been like that. If you can’t deal with, then yes, you are just another white person like that. If it’s hard to accept that I, as a black woman, have experienced microaggression, marginalization and ridicule at the hands of your people, then you are just another white person like that, because you are enabling their actions by silencing me. If you are willing to stifle me while I discuss my pain and frustrations because it makes you uncomfortable, then you are the worst kind of white people who are like that.
Not having KKK burn houses or black people lynched or segregated into their own communities is progress, but it isn’t the end to all. Microaggressions are the new way or dehumanizing Black People, but since we can’t document or prove microaggression, they are laughed at and thrown on the backburner. Having a person tell me “you’re so pretty for a black girl” or “you sound so educated, I’m surprised” is not as urgent as having dogs released on you, so we’re supposed to be satisfied with the meager progression. What the majority of white people mean is “you have crumbs now; you won’t be starving anymore, so leave us alone, while we indulge ourselves in five course meals”.
How do you not see all of this as being harmful or counterproductive?”
Have a great day, wiener.
“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?” — Eckhart Tolle
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You Never Left V, 2010 (Youssef Nabil)
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You Never Left VI, 2010 (Youssef Nabil)
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xochitl
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Stop the deportation of Yaya!
Yaya used to be an activist of the Gambian opposition movement against president Yahaya Jammeh.
The former army officer first seized power in a military coup in 1994 and was re-elected last year in a widely criticized election. After an arson attack in 2004 Yaya fled the country and applied for asylum in Austria.
The Austrian asylum court, however, rejected Yaya’s appeal, cynically claiming that he could easily move back to Gambia together with his 2.5 year old daughter and her mother.
As he is due to be deported to Gambia, a manifestation was hold on Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 5pm in front of the Police Detention Center PAZ in Vienna (8, Hernalser Gürtel 6-12). After a ralley walked to the new :: deportation centre in Nussdorfer Straße 23. [link to german language text] Some 230 people participated, few passers-by joined the protest spontaneously. It was a loud and powerfull demonstration.
:: Support the campaign for Yaya’s right to stay and sign :: this petition!
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TRIGGER WARNING: rape, forced sterilisation
While we’re on the subject of North Carolina: Between 1929 and 1974, the state sterilized more than 7,500 of its residents. Elaine Riddick (above) has been one of the most outspoken advocates for the victims of North Carolina’s eugenics project. In 1968, when she was 14, she was raped and impregnated by an older neighbor. The Eugenics Board declared her “feebleminded” and “promiscuous.” Immediately after she gave birth to her son by cesarean section, she was sterilized. Her illiterate grandmother signed the consent form with an X. “I’ve never been feebleminded,” Riddick said during a hearing last summer (PDF). “They slandered me. They ridiculed and harassed me. They cut me open like I was a hog.”
Photos of more survivors of the North Carolina eugenics program here.
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“We must learn to accept that no group, however benevolent, can ever hand power to the vanquished on a plate. We must accept that the limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. As long as we go to Whitey begging cap in hand for our own emancipation, we are giving him further sanction to continue with his racist and oppressive system.
We must realise that our situation is not a mistake on the part of whites but a deliberate act, and that no amount of moral lecturing will persuade the white man to “correct” the situation. The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant we learn to know, the child will: grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit. When you refuse to make these demands and choose to come to a round table to beg for your deliverance, you are asking for the contempt of those who have power over you. This is why we must reject the beggar tactics that are being forced on us by those who wish to appease our cruel masters. This is where the SASO message and cry; “Black man, you are on your own” becomes relevant.
The concept of integration, whose virtues are often extolled in white liberal circles, is full of unquestioned assumptions that embrace white values, It is a concept long defined by whites and never examined by blacks. It is based on the assumption that all is well with the system apart from some degree of mismanagement by irrational conservatives at the top. Even the people who argue for integration often forget to veil it in its supposedly beautiful covering. They tell each other that were it not for job reservation; there would be a beautiful market to exploit. They forget they are talking about people. They see blacks as additional levers to some complicated industrial machines. This is white man’s integration, an integration based on exploitative values. It is an integration in which black will compete with black, using each other as rungs up a stepladder leading them to white values. It is an integration in which the black man will have to prove himself in terms of these values before meriting acceptance and ultimate assimilation, and in which the poor will grow poorer and the rich richer in a country where the poor have always been black. We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts, which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man’s mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds.
Black Consciousness is an attitude of mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression-the blackness of their skin-and to operate as a group to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude. It is based on a self-examination, which has ultimately led them to believe that by seeking to run away from themselves and emulate the white man, they are insulting the intelligence of whoever created them black.
The philosophy of Black Consciousness therefore expresses group pride and the determination of the black to rise and attain the envisaged self. Freedom is the ability to define oneself with one’s possibilities held back not by the power of other people over one but only by one’s relationship to God and to natural surroundings.
On his own, therefore, the black man wishes to explore his surroundings, and test his possibilities. In other words to make his freedom real by whatever means he deems fit. At the heart of this kind of thinking is the realisation by blacks that the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one’s mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor as to make the oppressed believe that he is g liability to the white man, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters. Hence thinking along lines of Black Consciousness makes the black man see himself as a being complete in himself. It makes him less dependent and more free to express his manhood. At the end of it all he cannot tolerate attempts by anybody to dwarf the significance of his manhood.
In order that Black Consciousness can be used to advantage as a philosophy to apply to people in a position like ours, a number of points have to be observed. As people existing in a continuous struggle for truth, we have to examine and question old concepts, values and systems. Having found the fight answers we shall then work for consciousness among all people to make it possible for us to proceed towards putting these answers into effect. In this process, we have to evolve our own schemes, forms and strategies to suit the need and situation, always keeping in mind our fundamental beliefs and values.
In all aspects of the black-white relationship, now and in the past, we see a constant tendency by whites to depict blacks as of an inferior status. Our culture, our history and indeed all aspects of the black man’s life have been battered nearly out of shape […]”
” — Steve (Bantu) Biko, Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity(Source: blackintellect)
‘Merica
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