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Don’t move for men or white people 2k16.

No but really it’s amazing how many men and white people just expect you to cater to them and move out of their way like their entitled to all the space.

Not today.

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^^I sometimes make a point to not move out of the way and I’ve literally had people,mostly white men, chose to collide with me rather than move out of the way. And it was in those moments that I realized how much I catered to that ish,always moving for them but never having them move for me

onlyblackgirl

I don’t move on purpose now. I realized how much I subconsciously just move out of their way by habit and then it just hit me one day like why do I have to move for you? You’re not any more important than anyone else.

skypig357

Couple years back I made a New Years Resolution to maintain a straight line and no varying my rate of speed in airports. I would only alter or avoid the elderly, children or the infirm

You’d be surprised how many people I hit or ran over. You’d be equally surprised that most were women, and of all races.

Only an anecdote, I know but this is a game everyone plays. It ain’t just white men

unclebeanbag

Moving aint about catering. Its polite. Like when two people meet with shopping carts down an aisle.

skypig357

I only ran over those who walked in front of me or just stopped in front of me because on phone/distracted/whatever.

Basically people who expected other people to deal with their utter lack of spacial recognition and awareness

unclebeanbag

Yeah I don’t mean you though. Ypu did it not out of misplaced spite

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OP you are not being progressive, you’re being an asshole. That’s it.

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Good luck being shoved to the ground, OP. Little racist and sexist shits like you, who are just plain rude toward people who are trying to get somewhere by not getting the fuck out of their way, are going to get run over.

onlyblackgirl

The whites and males are upset. Oh no.

kelina-syle

I will never ever move out or hold the door to white males, unless elder or disabled..

queenofsabah

Here’s the process of me drawing @ Young Nubian (on IG).

so satisfying

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Proof & evidence :)

He’s reaching for an actual gun. Not a cell phone, wallet, insurance card, or anything else. He’s standing up, not pinned down with knees in his back. 🤔 I wonder when the officer felt threatened enough to pull his gun?

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The Himba wear little clothing, but the women are famous for covering themselves with otjize, a mixture of butter fat and ochre. The mixture gives their skins a reddish tinge. This symbolizes earth’s rich red color and the blood that symbolizes life, and is consistent with the Himba ideal of beauty.

It also protects their skin from the harsh sun.

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It’s also to keep them clean because they live in parts where water is scarce and drinking > bathing. As the otjize flakes off, dirt and dead skin go with it.

The Himba also use it to style their hair, and different headwear is worn during different stages of a female’s life to symbolize her becoming a woman.

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I will forever reblog this because I find it so damn beautiful.

babybutta

Well this stuff makes their skin look awesome, i need some of that.

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Black people are just so innovative

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xthegirlwithkaleidoscopeyesx

The whole ‘White vegans’ thing really makes me lose my shit. It makes it seem like the vegan POC don’t have a voice at all, like we’re unthinkingly following some white person fad. Do you know how racist that makes you sound? Being compassionate and caring about animals is not a white person thing. Kindly fuck off with your pathetic methods of trying to discredit veganism.

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We exist!

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Carnists completely ignore the people of color that are vegan or accuse them of being “tokens” and then say that veganism is racist?!?! If you are ignoring or actively silencing the voices of black and brown people then YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS AND ACTUALLY LISTEN TO PEOPLE.

kelina-syle

I understand both sides honestly. sometimes i hear disgusting things from white vegans that make me lose my shit. same as feminism, there is actually a branch of white veganism and theyre terrible. i need to differentiate myself from them, but our movement is so little and people already refuse to hear us as it is..

fomysquad

Can’t blame #BlackLivesMatter on this….that’s why

lagonegirl

he’s a lone wolf

chadvally

“This was completely out of his nature”

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Cuz he white that’s why

mastathegod

“we never would have thought he could do something like this.”

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I can’t with the blatant hypocrisy

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xthegirlwithkaleidoscopeyesx

On May 31st, for the first time in India we held a nation-wide march against speciesism. Vegans in seventeen cities across India held the march simultaneously to increase awareness about animal exploitation and how we can work towards putting an end to it. The pictures above are from the Chennai march.

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Incredible India

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Oh! But I thought being a vegan and caring about other species was just a wealthy, western (read: WHITE) thing. *sarcasm*

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love it

kelina-syle

im tired of hearing jokes about veganism being a white privileged thing...

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by littlethunder http://ift.tt/1Wi2p8B

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@anbich

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so inspiring

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This Needs to Stop

This post is directed at the blog @vegan-wastoid to call them out on why they’re not helping the vegan cause.

Ok. I have been a vegetarian for about a decade. I recently saw a video about the dairy industry and decided to go vegan. After all, why would I support the dairy industry but not the meat industry when the amount of cruelty is similar in both? Anyways, I was looking for vegan blogs to follow and came across yours. I thought you made many great points and was very passionate about animal rights. However, some of your posts have really upset me. I feel like the way you talk to some people sometimes comes across as rude and entitled. Anytime a meat eater makes a comment about why they aren’t vegan, you go on this rant, calling them assholes, dicks, saying “lmao” to their comments and questions, etc etc. and basically tell they’re terrible people for eating the way they do. Here are some of my thoughts on the matter.

First of all, why is this necessary? By belittling people and calling them names, I feel like you are not contributing to the vegan cause. You want more people to be vegan right? Why would someone want to become vegan if people like you in the vegan community treats them so disrespectfully? Hate only breeds more hate and if you treat someone like that they’re most likely not gonna be nice to you or subscribe to your cause. Sure, there are a lot of hateful carnists that bash on veganism every chance they get. But there are also meat eaters who grew up in a society where eating meat is a normal, socially acceptable thing to do and where animal’s lives are below the lives of human beings and their abuse is swept under the rug. What they need is not you telling them they’re assholes, but rather you giving them education on why being vegan is important. I think more people would be likely to consider being vegan if this were the case. People don’t tend to react well when they’re treated this way for something they’ve done their whole life and think is perfectly acceptable. This is the exact reason why a lot of society will call vegans entitled pricks. Because some of them will treat the meat eaters around them like trash which in turn makes everyone think all vegans are like that, which isn’t true.

Second, why do you care so much why someone becomes a vegan? Why does it have to be about animals rights and nothing else? It’s like you’re saying “I want more people to become vegan, but if it isn’t about animal rights then they don’t deserve to be vegan”. This makes no sense. If someone wants to become vegan because it’s better for the planet, why should it matter? Another human being just became vegan, which is what veganism needs to grow. Be thankful that for some reason someone else became vegan. If someone wants to be vegan because it’s good for the environment then leave them alone and let them be vegan rather than hating on them because they didn’t do it for the reasons you want them to. The environment is just as important as the animals that inhabit it and if we don’t care about it, then there won’t be a planet for those animals to live on will there? And as far as doing it for dieting reason, who cares. Maybe they have a negative body image and think being vegan will change that. Maybe they feel crappy because their current diet causes health risks and they want to look and feel better and not die at a young age because they fill themselves with junk food. Or even better, why can’t someone be vegan for all 3 of those reasons? Why does it have to just be about animal rights and nothing else? Just let it be and be proud that someone became vegan and is showing their support.

Thirdly, it would do a lot of good to the vegan cause if vegans like you learned to put yourselves in other people’s shoes. A meat eater might ask you a legitimate question regarding veganism such as “isn’t it expensive?” or “isn’t it the circle of life to eat animals?”. Rather than calling them assholes for being meat eaters in the first place and giving them a rude response simply because they ask, why don’t you show them facts? Add links to websites or videos that explain it? Why do you have to come across as so rude to people who just wanna know your answer? You don’t know, maybe they’re considering becoming vegan and want more information on why it’s a good thing. Maybe they were raised to think animal abuse is acceptable or doesn’t matter and they don’t understand why you’re vegan. Maybe they really do just wanna be disrespectful and hate on vegans, but hating them back doesn’t help the situation. They would be a lot more likely to hear you out if you treated them with a little respect and educated them rather than hate them.

All in all, I thought going in to your blog I would find passionate people who cared about the need for veganism and want to spread education about veganism. What I got instead was someone treating meat eaters disrespectfully because of who they are. I am in no way trying to come across as disrespectful or rude. I am simply so tired of vegans getting labeled as entitled and preachy simply because of some vegans who act that way. I was actually hesitant to become a vegan because I already get enough hate as a vegetarian as it is. I don’t want people to grow up in a world where vegetarianism and veganism are seen in such a negative way. What they should be seen as are positive movements that would make the world a better place. Yes the world needs to change. Yes the world is sick and messed up and there are a lot of terrible things that happen to animals and the environment. But, there is still a lot of good in it and a lot of vegans need to learn to see that. Pessimism and negativity and hate are not going to make the world a better place. Vegans as a whole are not the issue here. The issue is vegans that want to rant and rave and give veganism a bad reputation by yelling at every meat eater they see. It would do the world a lot more good if rather than hating every person around them, vegans like you chose to educate people, especially the younger generation who are so easily effected, and made veganism what it truly is. A beautiful movement born from animal rights that could hopefully one day save the Earth and the people and animals that inhabit it.

vegan-wastoid

1. the people I call dicks are 100% dicks. Take notice of the commenters who aren’t being rude and how I respond to them

2. Those people I’m rude to aren’t going to change. You need to understand, they’re never going to change. @acti-veg and @necessaryveganism, both of whom are eons more polite than I am, get the same amount of “you’re right, I’m going vegan” replies as I do. Which is pretty close to none. The reason they eat meat isn’t because I’m rude it’s because they’re selfish pricks who want to keep being selfish pricks. Changing my tone won’t fix that.

3. I never uselessly bash anyone. Any reply I make is informative and factual.

4. I’m pissed off. I have every right to call assholes assholes. I have every right to be angry and reply angrily.

5. I care about why people go vegan because unless you’re vegan for the animals, you’re not vegan. There is no, “I’m against racism because it’s good for gender equality.” they’re two separate movements that happen to intersect at some points. Veganism is an animal rights movement. Dont turn it into a health fad and don’t turn it into an environmental cause.

6. Unless you’re vegan for the animals, you’re more than likely not even vegan. Veganism is “a lifestyle choice which excludes all forms of animal exploitation, including food, clothing, personal products, and entertainment.” If you’re “vegan” for the health, you’ll still wear leather because that doesn’t effect your health. If you’re “vegan” for the environment, you’ll still use animal-tested products because that doesn’t effect the environment. If you’re 100% vegan, it’s for the animals.

7. If you want to eat a plant-based diet, go ahead. If you want to eat a plant-based diet for environmental reasons, go ahead. But don’t call yourself vegan.

8. I’m not apathetic about the environment. But veganism is about the animals, not the environment. What happens when eating meat becomes sustainable?

9. I couldn’t give less of a shit about the health aspects

10. I literally do. Like I said in point 3. I never go off on someone without backing up what I’m saying. 8/10 I provide links and sources. I would all the time but I have to type them out by hand. I always reply with information.

11. I’m an asshole. I’m not going to get any nicer. I’m tired and I’m angry. People aren’t going to change no matter how polite I am. Feel free to unfollow and ignore my posts.

necessaryveganism

@gif-owl, I’m all for new vegans immedinately diving into activism, but jesus, can you be part of the vegan community for more than a day before you start “calling out” vegans you think “aren’t helping the cause”? That’s one of the shittiest thing you can do. The entire post is a pretentious bag of dicks both @vegan-wastoid and I have heard a billion times. Welcome to the community but walk a few miles in these shoes before handing out criticism.

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Like I said in the post, I meant no disrespect and it’s not just vegan-wastoid, there are plenty of vegans that think the same way. But people are constantly being off put by vegans because they act like this. And you don’t know how long I’ve been a vegan or the fact that I’ve tried veganism before and stopped because of this kind of behavior as one of the reasons. In all honesty, not many people would want to put up with the kind of hate that vegans receive on a regular basis, especially from other vegans. I’ve been a vegetarian for a decade now and animal rights is nothing new to me, but please can vegans just stop telling other vegans they aren’t actual vegans? It’s frustrating and doesn’t help vegans in any way. The point of the post wasn’t to anger, but to get people to understand that veganism is hard, and bashing people for trying doesn’t help anything. Maybe these articles and quotes from the articles might help others understand why this frustrates me to no end and why it has taken me so long to get back into the vegan community:

https://thevegancommunicator.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/why-being-a-judgmental-vegan-doesnt-win-hearts/comment-page-1/

http://www.dailydot.com/via/vegans-stop-making-me-hate-you/

“I think we’ve all known vegans who refuse to empathize with other humans in favor of empathizing with farm animals—and that is no way to create social or environmental change in the long run. For one thing, that’s a dickish way to behave, period. For another, it’s not going to shift anyone’s eating habits, except maybe in the opposite direction out of spite.”

“After talking to this man, he recommitted to try Veganism for another 30 days. He comes to it from a health perspective and, obviously, Veganism not being about diet, it ruffles some feathers for some of us. But this man is obviously willing to learn and expand his awareness and he should be encouraged and not trashed because he has not reached our level of “Vegan awareness”. What good is it to turn him off?”

necessaryveganism

Honestly, do you think we go around yelling at everyone? Do you think when someone comes up to us and asks us honestly where we get our protein, that we start screaming “carnist”? Jesus. Je-sus.

If you seriously think you’re going to make some fuckhead suddenly give a shit for the first time in their shitty life because you smiled and told them it’s ok when they made a bacon joke while watching a video of piglets being slammed against the floor, then you go ahead and do that. I reserve myself the right to call that person a fucking piece of shit and not grovel at their feet begging them to not be a selfish prick when there’s no chance of that happening, or smile politely and tell them they’re entitled to their opinion.

“The reality is that people aren’t vegan because they benefit and enjoy participating in the exploitation of nonhumans. They enjoy a good steak, love their leather loafers, have fun at Sea World, betting on horse races, wearing makeup tested on animals, prefer to buy the purebred dog they always wanted.

I’m not talking about non-vegans who have not heard the vegan message or philosophy yet, but the people in our lives and the people whom we advocate to. They know – and don’t really care. They aren’t waiting for the perfect tone or more love-and-light from animal rights activists, they just don’t care. Maybe someday they will, but not because you’ve pet them enough.” (Gary Smith)

Go throw fucking flower pedals at sadistic shitheads if you think that’s the best way of going about things. Accept the fact that not all of us agree, and there are many, many people who need our pissed-off approach.

mewsiex

Asking nicely never brought about social change. NEVER. Because those entitled and privileged do not willingly want to give up their perks so that others can live and have it a bit better as well. And it’s very important not to turn veganism into a fad, because then we’ll have fitness and nutrition professionals dissing vegansim based on false information. I had a small discussion on Twitter with Kaila Prins, who is a fitness columnist (she’s very cool and body-positive but she has the wrong idea of veganism, I wonder why!) and who told me she only knows people who go vegan to lose weight and while that is a crap personal choice to make, it does not represent veganism because, surprise, veganism is not about weight loss.

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I’m beyonce hyping up Michelle like she was really saying something

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this is so fucking funny

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OMFSOOkxndbvdgdv

kelina-syle

this is amazing

africanaquarian

so 2 black men were shot back to back, less than 24 hours later whilst unarmed and expressing no violent behavior, right after independence day and america still thinks this isn’t a problem? but land of the free right? everybody has the same rights. while cops can spill [black] blood with impunity. alright. okay. sure.

africanaquarian

Philando Castile was literally killed in front of his own baby but cops can safely detain white mass murderers without a single scratch, while being shot at. okay.

theconcealedweapon

Conservatives: I hate Muslim people. Look at what that Muslim person did at that Orlando LGBT bar.

LGBT people: So, does that mean you care about LGBT people?

Conservatives: No! Gay people are pedophiles, and transgender women are just men who want to invade women’s restrooms and harass women! WE NEED TO PROTECT WOMEN!

Women: So, does that mean you care about women?

Conservatives: Shut up, feminazi! Women in the United States are not oppressed! If you want to talk about women’s oppression, you should be focusing on how women in other countries are treated!

Refugees: So, does that mean you care about people from other countries?

Conservatives: Stay out of our country! Why should we care about refugees when we have people here who need help?

Homeless People: So, does that mean you care about people who need help?

Conservatives: No! Get a job, freeloader!