Privilege in less than 140 characters. #notfairandlovely
And there you have it
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the colorblind ideology implies that it is necessary to overlook a person’s race in order to acknowledge their humanity
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white people benefit from racism everyday. racism is not just getting called a cracker in the 2nd grade, but instead an institutionalized system that has been put in place to raise white people up and push people of color down further and further. racism is a system of advantages and disadvantages that privileges white people while disenfranchising people of color. a white person may think that because they don’t hate [insert race here], they aren’t racist, but the bottom line is, if you are born white, you benefit from racism. that’s how society works. so if you are white, don’t bother asserting the fact that you are “not a racist” or that “all white people aren’t racist”. Instead, be an ally and actively prove it. actions speak louder than words.
President #Obama visited Standing Rock Sioux Reservation last Friday promising to be “a president who honors your sacred trust, and who respects your sovereignty, and who upholds treaty obligations, and who works with you in a spirit of true partnership and mutual respect to give our children the future that they deserve.” Let’s hold him to his words and stop the taking of #Lakota children by the state of #SouthDakota. #OurChildrenAreSacred
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facebook is very useful because it allows me to see the harmful, abusive people are in my acquaintance because these people usually post very harmful images and posts. Time to unfriend.
Stop telling people they can’t hate people who dehumanize them.
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repeat after me everyone: respecting the basic human dignity of oppressed people is more important than having a philosophical discussion about how anger is supposedly the same thing as hatred and how much better the world would be if we were all just nice to each other!!!!!!
because “don’t fight hate with hate” only means so much when you shout it in the faces of the oppressed, but barely whisper it in the direction of the oppressors
What I didn’t like about our powwow was that it has become more of a competition than a showcase for our students in our program. The point of our powwows is to show off our student dancers and drummers, to announce our students who made the honor role, who were published, or who did something great in some way. Our dancers should be the Head Boy and Head Girl, and shadow dancers, our adults should be the Head Man and Head Woman. Instead the powwow committee, which I am a member of, decided on bringing in bigger name dancers from out of town who are not in our program. Why? For attention, for crowds, for money. This is suppose to be about our children. The students I voted for didn’t get any of the spots even though they are in our program, they help me with teaching craft classes, they are always around, and some of them even win in some competitions. We are not about becoming a huge, popular powwow, we are about our children.
The summer powwow, our program put on earlier this month, had it’s ups and downs. There were plenty of dancers, drums, and vendors, but not a large crowd of people. Some vendors didn’t make as much as they would have liked though. The location was good, it was about 110 degrees which may have kept some people away, but I am wondering what else can be done to bring people in. Perhaps a tv commercial? On a brighter note, being that it was pretty much all native peoples there we were all joking around and had a lot of fun.
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Apparently it’s okay to be hateful towards cis, heterosexual, and white people because queer people are slaughtered every day. My mistake. I was under the illusion that everyone was equal and so should be treated so regardless of what’s going on in other parts of…
It was sarcasm. I’m well aware of the lack of equality. But no. If you want to apply that logic it should be completely fine that I hate trans people, because once I was told I’m faking my gender for attention by one trans person. Once a bottle was thrown at my face -it missed- by a complete stranger because of the way I looked, so I should hate all middle aged men. I should hate all mothers because my mother once told me that I’m going through a stupid phase and I can’t change how I was born. I should hate many people because of my oppression but I don’t. You cannot overcome oppression without forgiveness. You cannot fight hatred with hatred. We will never solve anything that way.
Individual acts of prejudice or cruelty does not mean that all the people who have been cruel to you have an oppressive power over you. White, cis het people do hold a position of power, and are the oppressive power. Forgiving an oppressor never made the oppressor kinder or less oppressive. Saying that hating one’s oppressor is fighting hate with hate sounds like shaming a victim, as if the victim is just as much to blame because they hated their abuser. Hating someone(s) who deliberately hurt you is not being petty, or just as bad.
I’m not saying that rape victims are to forgive. I’m not saying you have to personally forgive your oppressor but you cannot hate a whole group of people based on skin colour, sexuality or gender. This is what we are fighting against. It disappoints me to see people who I know personally have together lives and do not personally receive threats, violence or direct oppression feel that it is perfectly just to practice the type of hatred they are claiming to be against. I don’t care that cis people are not going to be attacked on the streets like others will be it is still unjust and if not challenged creates the sense that this behavior isn’t wrong and unfair.
Hating one’s oppressor and/or abuser is survival. Being kind to an abusive and/or an oppressive person does not make them think twice about how they themselves should be kind, it tells them that they aren’t in the wrong and that their cruelty will be tolerated. Being kind to an oppressor is siding with the oppressor. shaming people who are oppressed, by saying they are equal to or even worse for being “hateful” towards their oppressor, is to silence them, to invalidate their feelings, and to say that their abuse and oppression should be tolerated.
Condoning hate is wrong. No matter where or who the hate is coming from. I am not shaming anyone. As you are completely unaware of the situation due to the fact that you do not know me or the girl I’m talking about you don’t really have any right to tell me I’m victim shaming. You don’t know what a vile person this girl has been. Maybe she is upset but preaching hate on Facebook is not the solution. The lgbtqa community has come so far and people like her who have a superiority complex saying they’re better than straight people and above them are not a credit to a community that I have known to be so welcoming and accepting and who strive for equality.
I was speaking in general because your original post was not specific. And I stand by what I said. Your own words are that the community she claims is better than the straight community is “accepting” and “strive for equality”, straight people as a whole are not accepting nor do they strive for equality, so isn’t she right? If your statement is true, then aren’t people who are accepting better than those who aren’t?
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Profiling American culture one shocking statistic at a time.
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Apparently it’s okay to be hateful towards cis, heterosexual, and white people because queer people are slaughtered every day. My mistake. I was under the illusion that everyone was equal and so should be treated so regardless of what’s going on in other parts of…
It was sarcasm. I’m well aware of the lack of equality. But no. If you want to apply that logic it should be completely fine that I hate trans people, because once I was told I’m faking my gender for attention by one trans person. Once a bottle was thrown at my face -it missed- by a complete stranger because of the way I looked, so I should hate all middle aged men. I should hate all mothers because my mother once told me that I’m going through a stupid phase and I can’t change how I was born. I should hate many people because of my oppression but I don’t. You cannot overcome oppression without forgiveness. You cannot fight hatred with hatred. We will never solve anything that way.
Individual acts of prejudice or cruelty does not mean that all the people who have been cruel to you have an oppressive power over you. White, cis het people do hold a position of power, and are the oppressive power. Forgiving an oppressor never made the oppressor kinder or less oppressive. Saying that hating one’s oppressor is fighting hate with hate sounds like shaming a victim, as if the victim is just as much to blame because they hated their abuser. Hating someone(s) who deliberately hurt you is not being petty, or just as bad.
I’m not saying that rape victims are to forgive. I’m not saying you have to personally forgive your oppressor but you cannot hate a whole group of people based on skin colour, sexuality or gender. This is what we are fighting against. It disappoints me to see people who I know personally have together lives and do not personally receive threats, violence or direct oppression feel that it is perfectly just to practice the type of hatred they are claiming to be against. I don’t care that cis people are not going to be attacked on the streets like others will be it is still unjust and if not challenged creates the sense that this behavior isn’t wrong and unfair.
Hating one’s oppressor and/or abuser is survival. Being kind to an abusive and/or an oppressive person does not make them think twice about how they themselves should be kind, it tells them that they aren’t in the wrong and that their cruelty will be tolerated. Being kind to an oppressor is siding with the oppressor. shaming people who are oppressed, by saying they are equal to or even worse for being “hateful” towards their oppressor, is to silence them, to invalidate their feelings, and to say that their abuse and oppression should be tolerated.
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love and kindness do not fix things like discrimination or racism. stop putting responsibility of rehabilitating the aggressor or oppressor on the victim, it’s abusive.
too often when someone says that hating someone is wrong it’s someone telling a victim, or a person who is oppressed, that they are wrong for hating their oppressor or abuser. By shaming survivors, victims, or people who are oppressed, they are actually upholding oppressive and abusive people.