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I’m not down with this whole idea of socialism and capitalism being considered totally incompatible with one another. Like, it is possible to employ elements of both systems into a country’s economy. I mean, most countries already do, it’s just a matter of to what degree each is used. We can implement social programs like healthcare or government funded education and still maintain elements of capitalism.
I hate the attitude a lot of SJW types take towards sexuality. Like, I hate those posts that complain about how a lot of men are attracted to younger women, or about how bad sexy halloween costumes are etc. These people act like are women are just niave, helpless creatures with no autonomy and no capacity to make their own decisions. Who cares if a woman puts on a sexy school girl costume and roleplays with her partner(s). Who cares if a 24 year old woman is dating an older man? As long as they’re of age, fully consenting adults, I don’t see the problem. Newsflash: women like sex too. Some women have kinks, some women like to do things because they know it attracts men. It’s so damn condescending the way people try to tell us that certain things are bad and degrading to us as if they speak for all women. I find it funny how a lot of these people go on about how we need to “de-stigmatize” female sexuality, yet if a woman’s sexual behavior or preference goes against their sensibilities or makes them uncomfortable, then they’re perfectly fine shaming people for it.
StopIgnoringAndExcusingAntisemitismFromBlackNationalistsAndOtherNonwhiteGroups2k16
Repeat after me, kids: antisemitism is not a “white” thing. Don’t be so consumed by white guilt that you stand by and condone hatred from nonwhite people. If you do so, you might as well stop pretending to care about social justice and marginalized groups.
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*glares at the Women’s March leaders and their apologists*
After putting a lot of thought into it, I’ve decided that if I was going to sum up my views on feminism, it’s this:
If you ask me if I think we live in a misogynistic society, my answer would be, no. Do I think we live in a society that may have some remnants of an outdated, old-fashioned social system? Yes. But I don’t believe in this idea that our society is misogynistic and actively “hates women”.
To be clear, I really don’t even think people in the past were necessarily misogynistic. I wouldn’t say that women are/were “undervalued”, I would say that they were valued for specific reasons that differed from what men were valued for. (From a purely biological standpoint, women are actually more valued, since one man and multiple women can produce more offspring than one woman and multiple men). Now I’m not trying to defend these systems. Modern society has evolved past the need for it. We live in an age where women should be allowed to take on “masculine” roles, and men should be allowed to take on “feminine” ones. And I see that happening. It’s going to take time before we get a complete 50/50 ratio of men and women in these roles, but we’re definitely getting there. Hell, nowadays, women are earning degrees at a higher percentage than men. I’m not saying everything is perfect and totally equal, but I also don’t think it’s as bad as some people make it out to be either.
I’m also not saying misogyny doesn’t exist. Of course there are misogynists out there. But they are individuals. To say that our society as a whole hates women is just something I don’t agree with.
So in my art class at my table there’s three black kids and two white kids. I’m one of the white kids. So yesterday two of the black kids were telling ‘white people jokes’ and I thought they were funny and I laughed too. Apparently they didn’t realize we were in hearing distance and real quick go “but not you guys.” Which we hadn’t said anything. We weren’t offended. It’s not like these jokes have an impact on the way white people feel or are treated.
But two days ago the other white kid at the table said the n word and we all told him it was horrible and offensive and he needed to stop and he was like “I have black friends though.”
I went to a very diverse high school. Some people called it the black high school. I got very used to being the only white person in the room and having people look at me whenever some heinous thing white people did was brought up in history class.
Anyways, I still remember my senior year I was the only white person in my environmental science class. My lab partners were a Mexican guy, an Indian guy who was also Sikh, and an Asian guy.
More than once they either forgot I was at the table or forgot I was white somehow and told white jokes and said generalizations about white people and every time they only noticed when I laughed at the jokes and then they all got flustered and apologized and I just laughed and told them it was kinda true though and joined in on talking smack about people like me because we do say and do some pretty weird stuff.
Like white jokes don’t really hurt me at all. I think the only one I’ve heard that ever really stung was someone saying I had to be a nazi because I’m blonde and being Germanic automatically makes me a racist. And I’ve heard hundreds of jabs at white people. That’s the only one that’s made a lasting impact.
White people are weird man. We’re weird. And jokes about us don’t really do lasting damage. Saying a slur does lasting damage. There’s a lot of hatred and history packed into that word and we have no right to use it.
The difference between white people jokes and jokes or slurs against POC is that white people jokes are not reinforcing damaging stereotypes. You joke about a white person and it’s going to be nonsense about liking cheese or wearing socks with sandals and like…who the hell is that going to hurt? No one is going to lose out on a job opportunity or face hatred or violence for shit like that.
But you start telling jokes about POC, and invariably you are telling jokes that involve harmful generalizations that POC groups have been struggling to overcome for decades if not centuries. You normalize ideas that are already embedded in the subconscious of a post-colonial, Caucasian-dominated culture, and in doing so, you perpetuate these ideas. Whether you mean to or not, whether you intend harm or not, racist jokes against actual oppressed races are damaging.
Jokes about white people are just fucking funny.
So I’m supposed to just sit back and let myself be berated because of bad things that I had no part in? No, fuck that. You don’t get to decide when someone’s hurt feelings are valid. People are people, and people should be given basic respect. And white people jokes aren’t harmful? There’s a thing called context. Was it not harmful when a 9 year old boy hung himself after being bullied for being white? This double standard is fucking ridiculous, and all it does is make white people less sympathetic to the cause. I don’t care if you think it’s “fair”. The fact is, you have to treat people with respect if you want to be treated with respect. Either you think making generalizations about an entire group of people based on one characteristic is wrong or you don’t. You don’t get to pick and choose what’s “hurtful” and what’s not.
There’s a difference between jokes and bullying.This post was about jokes.
You’re right: there is a thing called context. And you’re taking the previous comments out of it. The context here was ‘jokes making generalizations about race,’ not children bullying each other over things because they’re children and that’s what children do.
A child’s death is a tragic thing. But using it in an argument like this is not only invalidating the point, it’s missing it completely. You’re taking a post that was about trying to deconstruct privilege and how it works in favor of the oppressive race even in the context of jokes against them and you’re making it into a post about you and your feelings. And you’re doing it with such an outlandish example that you’re putting everyone else’s ideas on the topic into the position of choosing “agree with me or agree that children dying is okay!” It’s a sloppy argument at best, and a manipulative one at worst.
This post was only about recognizing that a position of power and privilege means certain things are less harmful to you as a white person than they are to others.
The line between joking and bullying can be thin. You may not mean to offend, but someone else might take it that way. Either you think that racially charged jokes aren’t acceptable in any form or they are. And jokes about any race have the potential to be harmful. Making blanket generalizations about any group can create false perceptions, and that’s bad for social harmony.
I feel like the logic applied inconsistently by a lot of people on the left. Like, why is “not all white people” considered an invalid argument but “not all muslims” is. I see it like this:
Yes, there are inequalities that black people face in America (especially in the legal system). If you’re white and try to deny/ignore/make excuses for it, that doesn’t necessarily make you racist, but it does indirectly contribute to the perpetuation of racist behaviors.
And, like racists, there are radical Muslims out there. I don’t have a problem with being a Muslim, but a lot of Muslims out there aren’t radical, but try to excuse/downplay/ignore the issues caused by radical Islam. People have a right to practice what ever religion they want, but too often I hear things like “well they’re not REAL muslims. Islam is actually the religion of peace” or “but what about all the bad things that {insert group here} has done?” Muslims need to accept that their are radicals out there who do bad things in the name of Islam. That’s true of all religions. It’s true of Christianity, it’s true of Judaism, and it’s true of Islam. This is especially important in Europe where terrorist attacks by radical Muslims are becoming frequent.
So in my art class at my table there’s three black kids and two white kids. I’m one of the white kids. So yesterday two of the black kids were telling ‘white people jokes’ and I thought they were funny and I laughed too. Apparently they didn’t realize we were in hearing distance and real quick go “but not you guys.” Which we hadn’t said anything. We weren’t offended. It’s not like these jokes have an impact on the way white people feel or are treated.
But two days ago the other white kid at the table said the n word and we all told him it was horrible and offensive and he needed to stop and he was like “I have black friends though.”
I went to a very diverse high school. Some people called it the black high school. I got very used to being the only white person in the room and having people look at me whenever some heinous thing white people did was brought up in history class.
Anyways, I still remember my senior year I was the only white person in my environmental science class. My lab partners were a Mexican guy, an Indian guy who was also Sikh, and an Asian guy.
More than once they either forgot I was at the table or forgot I was white somehow and told white jokes and said generalizations about white people and every time they only noticed when I laughed at the jokes and then they all got flustered and apologized and I just laughed and told them it was kinda true though and joined in on talking smack about people like me because we do say and do some pretty weird stuff.
Like white jokes don’t really hurt me at all. I think the only one I’ve heard that ever really stung was someone saying I had to be a nazi because I’m blonde and being Germanic automatically makes me a racist. And I’ve heard hundreds of jabs at white people. That’s the only one that’s made a lasting impact.
White people are weird man. We’re weird. And jokes about us don’t really do lasting damage. Saying a slur does lasting damage. There’s a lot of hatred and history packed into that word and we have no right to use it.
The difference between white people jokes and jokes or slurs against POC is that white people jokes are not reinforcing damaging stereotypes. You joke about a white person and it’s going to be nonsense about liking cheese or wearing socks with sandals and like…who the hell is that going to hurt? No one is going to lose out on a job opportunity or face hatred or violence for shit like that.
But you start telling jokes about POC, and invariably you are telling jokes that involve harmful generalizations that POC groups have been struggling to overcome for decades if not centuries. You normalize ideas that are already embedded in the subconscious of a post-colonial, Caucasian-dominated culture, and in doing so, you perpetuate these ideas. Whether you mean to or not, whether you intend harm or not, racist jokes against actual oppressed races are damaging.
Jokes about white people are just fucking funny.
So I’m supposed to just sit back and let myself be berated because of bad things that I had no part in? No, fuck that. You don’t get to decide when someone’s hurt feelings are valid. People are people, and people should be given basic respect. And white people jokes aren’t harmful? There’s a thing called context. Was it not harmful when a 9 year old boy hung himself after being bullied for being white? This double standard is fucking ridiculous, and all it does is make white people less sympathetic to the cause. I don’t care if you think it’s “fair”. The fact is, you have to treat people with respect if you want to be treated with respect. Either you think making generalizations about an entire group of people based on one characteristic is wrong or you don’t. You don’t get to pick and choose what’s “hurtful” and what’s not.
males, and being fucked by males, is the leading cause of death for females
*excluding age related deaths
At least 7/10 of the most common causes of death in girls as young as 15 and women as old as 59, is caused by males. A few, specifically, are caused by being fucked by males.
- HIV/Aids: Do I need to explain? Obviously, mostly transmitted by males through sexual relations. - Maternal deaths: Again, is an explanation needed? It is the second leading cause of death for 15-44 yo girls and women. Obviously, pregnancy is inflicted on women by males, through rape and through demand of continuous PIV, even though the logical outcome of PIV is pregnancy. ALL maternal deaths are preventable. - Tuberculosis: Often linked with HIV infection. - Burned: There are high rates of death by burning in India, Asia and the Middle East, obviously almost always done by males to females. - Cervical cancer: All cases linked to a sexual transmitted genital infection with HPV. - Straight up murdered by males - Depression and suicide: I wonder why women are more likely to be depressed? I wonder what drives them to suicide? I wonder if both of these have anything to do with males and male supremacy and what it is to be treated as a woman under patriarchy?
None of this accounts for women who die in wars raged by men. All of this is utterly unacceptable. It is gynocide and it is very fucking intentional.
Can you imagine if women were causing this much male death every year? If an specific way that women demanded “sex” - let’s say, if performing oral sex on women, lead to so many male deaths? They would cut our clits out. Oh wait, they already do that anyway.
oh boy, this is whole post is a mess. First of all women on average have a longer life expectancy than men, so if the intent is to kill off women, they’re doing a pretty poor job of it. But seriously, let’s look at this:
-HIV/AIDS: HIV is not solely a sexually transmitted disease. You can get it from dirty needles, breastfeeding, or pretty much any situation involving the transfer of certain bodily fluids. Not everyone who has AIDS got it from sex.
-Maternal Deaths: Crazy as it seems, there’s actually some women out there who choose to have kids. In fact, I’ve known women who wanted kids when their male partner didn’t. The problem is that in some places, medical care is shit in general, which increases the risks of giving birth. Bear in mind as well that this is not the case in developed countries, most of which have very low mortality rates.
-Tuberculosis: See HIV/AIDS, also people infected with it don’t always have AIDS
-Burned: Fair enough, acid attacks and burnings are a problem, but they mostly occur in certain regions of the world. There’s a huge cultural problem in these places, but it’s not some global conspiracy to kill females, because there are plenty of places that it doesn’t happen.
-Cervical Cancer: It’d be fucked up if a rape victim were to get cervical cancer from an STD, and it’s a problem in places that don’t properly educate people on sexually transmitted diseases. However, plenty of women out there are aware of it and still choose to have sex. How do I know? I’m one of them. I’m willing to have sexual relations with a man. I’m not forced into it, I choose of my own free will. Personally what I find sexist is this assumption that all women are fragile flowers who are totally unable to make decisions by themselves. I’ll fuck men if I want to fuck men, your opinion is neither desired nor required.
-Depression and Suicide: Men have a higher suicide rate than women, so idk what the hell you’re talking about.
These Are Not Your Negroes
Dear White People,
I know that you are excited about Black Panther. I know that all the memes that Black Tumblr and Black Twitter are creating are hilarious and wonderful, as is all media we create. After all, it’s already the best Marvel movie ever made, with the most beautiful cast, and the most perfect costumes and special effects.
That being said though… please think long and hard about how you talk about characters in this movie. T’challa is not your bae. Killmonger is not your precious son. Shuri is not your wife. Absolutely none of the characters are your children or your smol anything. Most specifically? The characters AREN’T YOURS.
The language of anti-black racism is often couched in terms of infantilization and ownership. I don’t give a shit if you’re just putting it in tags, be careful how you interact textually and mentally with black characters.
Black Panther is a movie for black people. Sure, a lot of people are going to see it, but this movie is, for many a black nerd, a lifelong dream. It’s ours, and while you get to share it, you don’t get to fucking claim it.
The MCU fandom already turns black characters into mammys and servants and sidekicks for their white favs, and it’s bullshit. You turn black pain into plot points for your white favs. Basically you have a long history of treating black characters like shit, and I’m here to tell you to cut that shit out.
Your white favs do not belong in Wakanda. They don’t belong there in meta, in head canons, in fic. The only reason Buckwheat Barnes gets to be there is because he’s currently being used as a decorative ice sculpture for state dinners. You have literally the rest of the entire fucking MCU, go play in that sandbox and leave Wakanda alone.
Love,
Me, and Black Fans Everywhere Who Are Tired of Your Shit
P.S. I know y’all won’t listen and a bunch of you are gonna get your panties in a twist over this, but let this serve as a letter of notice that I will come for you if I see even a HINT of White Nonsense™ on posts about Black Panther and it’s cast.
I am reblogging this from @athynaoswald because her notes were flawless and I want to share. White people, this is what “getting it” looks like.
#a lot of the responses seem to be taking this as discouraging white people from seeing or enjoying black panther #but like as a white person reading ops post this says to me go see and enjoy this movie and be respectful of the characters
#the thing about infantalizing especially cause like yeah that’s a way a lot of people including me interact with characters in general #calling them smol or precious but like from what I have read that has a whole different context when it comes to black characters #because of racism and historical contexts like op said
#and then also just ya know not using wakanda as a playground for white people seems pretty simple to me #like ah yes let’s put all my white characters into wakanda seems too close to colonization
#tldr op isn’t saying don’t see the movie they’re saying be responsible with how you engage with fiction
You, my friend, get it, and are invited to come to the opening night showing of Black Panther.
“The characters AREN’T YOURS.”
I hate to tell you this, but most the characters you mentioned were created by white guys...
let’s mcfreakin kill him
Mcfucking finally
Repeat after me, kids: your significant other liking multiple genders does nothing to invalidate the fact that they like you best.
It simply means that they could have chosen literally anyone on earth, regardless of gender, and yet they still picked you.
This is really important.
This artist edited Moana into Katara and it’s kind of amazing???? Suddenly I’m thinking about some alternate version of Avatar, as a work of CG instead of 2D animation. And now I want to see even more characters rendered into CGI via photo manipulation. I can’t escape.
edit: This has so many notes that I’m probably way too late to the party, with this…. but now that I think of it, this isn’t the first time I noticed something seem to connect Moana to Katara in some way:
This is an illustration of Moana by Jin Kim…. and is it just me, or does this look A LOT like Katara?…
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