SJWs Are Problematic

fuckin fight me

[d-archive1948-deactivated202303]

How to Pro-Palestine 101:

Understand this whole conflict is about land and not religion, we are not fighting over whether we should fast on Ramadan or on Yom Kippur, or fighting Israelis just because the majority of them is Jewish. 

Understand that not all Palestinians are Muslims, about 15%-20% of Palestinians aren’t.

You support Palestinians for losing their land and facing atrocities, you don’t support Palestinians just because Palestine is holy to you. 

You support all Palestinians equally, don’t put Muslim Palestinians over non-Muslim Palestinians and vice-versa, we are all going through the same struggle.

Don’t speak on our behalf (In other words, lead our cause), we don’t want you to mess up and then we end up getting the blame. You could support us, teach about our cause but don’t lead us, we lead you.

Don’t support us just because you hate the Jewish people, we don’t want your antisemitism.

Understand that Palestine is our land before anyone else

Don’t romanticize our struggle, no it’s not cool to suffer.

Understand we also face atrocities from other Arabs not just from Israelis.

[halalchampagnesocialist]

Don’t turn Palestine into a Muslim issue. 

Understand that there are diverse opinions amongst Palestinians, both in the diaspora and at home. 

Don’t use Palestine as a springboard to derail and promote your own cause.

Bringing awareness to Palestinians should not be done through grotesque means; in other words, Nazi comparisons or even spreading pictures of dead bodies everywhere.

[hello-hayati]

do not try to pit christian Palestinians against muslim Palestinians or Palestinians of any other religion, and don’t import your Islamaphobia into our struggle  by lending your support only to one group. we are one people you take us all or not at all

do not erase Palestinians of different races in order to present Palestine as an Arab nation when there are Arab Palestinians, afro Palestinians, Armenian Palestinians, Chechnian Palestinians, Jewish Palestinians and more

absolutely do not claim to support us if you deny the rights of other pressed groups or deny the oppression or genocide of other groups

[meejana-deactivated20170726]

Support Palestinians and DO NOT undermine them

You DO NOT represent Palestinians, no matter what your intentions are, and you do not need to attempt to do so in spaces that aim to create dialogue (see OTI, MLI)

[d-archive1948-deactivated202303]

Don’t call yourself Pro-Palestine if you’re a Zionist, take your Liberal Zionism away and get lost. 

[frompalestinewithlove]

Do not glorify/romanticize resistance. 

Do not dictate Palestinians on how we should feel/react. 

Do not criticize their method of resistance. You are not the one suffering from the consequences. 

Don’t steal our narrative.

We are not helpless victims. We do not need to be saved. So please, enough with this saviorship complex. 

It’s not about you. 

[shahsandstuff]

Do not criticize their method of resistance? Uh okay that sounds like a bit of a slippery slope since there are a lot of horrible things done in the name of “resistance”.

You guys aren’t providing a very balanced picture here, both sides are at fault in this ordeal.

[d-archive1948-deactivated202303]

Thanks for your two cents, now get the fuck off my post. 

[rlmjob]

if you’re wondering why CNN is biased towards Hillary even though the public seems to agree that Bernie came through last night on multiple fronts heres something interesting

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[runlivedream]

[straightwhiteboystexting]

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[christian-carovnica-deactivated]

???????????????? “YOURE SUPPOSED TO THINK YOURE UNNATTRACTIVE SO I CAN HAVE EMOTIONALLY MANIPULATIVE LEVERAGE OVER YOU”.

[mehreenkasana]

What may come to mind for many people in terms of anti-feminist violence, schools and girls is the catalytic shooting of Malala Yousafzai and her classmates, while on their way to school. Acid thrown on schoolgirls in Afghanistan is not far behind in terms of hatefulness. However, the United States has no shortages in countries where we tend not to focus on gender. In 1989 a man walked into an engineering class in a Montreal school and – yelling, “I hate feminists!” – shot 28 people, killing 14 women. He only shot men who interfered. 

In the US, in 2006 a truck driver walked into an Amish schoolhouse, “ordered the 15 boys in the room to leave, along with several adults, and demanded that the 11 girls line up facing the blackboard.” He tied the girls’ legs together and shot them. 

In 2013 Norwegian mass shooter Anders Breivik killed 77 people, 69 of them teenage students. Anti-feminism was an essential aspect of his manifesto, although that information often got buried in his wider ranting. He was concerned that feminism would “deny the intrinsic worth of native Christian European heterosexual males.” He wrote that, “the fate of European civilization depends on European men steadfastly resisting Politically Correct feminism.“ 

Prior to killing six people during his 2014 killing spree, Elliot Rodger explained, “I will enter the hottest sorority house of UCSB, and I will slaughter every single spoiled stuck up blonde slut I see inside there…The true Alpha Male.“Clearly Boko Haram has no monopoly on targeting educated girls or schools.

The demographics of mass shootings in the United States are a testament to how inseparably and tightly bound race and gender to one another. During the past 30 years, all but one of the mass murders in the U.S. was committed by men, 90 percent of whom were white. Sociologist Michael Kimmel has worked for decades, conducting extensive research, to illuminate the relationship between race, hyper masculinity, homophobia and violence. As he put it after the Sandy Hook shooting, “White men… have a somewhat more grandiose purpose: they want to destroy the entire world in some cataclysmic, video-game, and action movie-inspired apocalypse. If I’m going to die, then so is everybody else, they seem to say. Yes, of course, this is mental illness speaking: but it is mental illness speaking with a voice that has a race and a gender.”

[… ] That mental illness can be socially constructed is rarely mentioned in knee jerk media coverage after a mass shooting. “Mental illness actually does reflect the local culture,” explains anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann at Stanford University. When we spoke last year, she made a comparison with people’s behavior when drunk. “The way people express their symptoms has a lot to do with the ways that people learn to think. For example, Americans are violent drunks. American college men want to destroy things when they’re drunk. That’s a learnt behaviour. Violence is not necessarily associated with alcohol around the world.” Luhrmann’s research, revealed that the voice-hearing experiences of people with serious psychotic behaviors differ around the world. In Ghana the voices people hear are benign and playful, in the U.S. they are violent and harsh.”

Soraya Chemaly, Mass Killings in the US: Masculinity, Masculinity, Masculinity

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[zukosgay]

ok, but consider this radical concept: both bi and gay people face oppression for being bi/gay. their experiences sometimes overlap, sometimes they don’t. gay people can be biphobic & bi people can be homophobic. that does not mean either of said group oppresses/has privilege over the other. shocking, I know.

[fiercetransgirls]

[gaylor-moon]

Thaaaaank youuuuuuu.

[fystudying]

I’m currently writing an article about cultural appropriation and I’m trying to set some type of definition of what cultural appropriation is…

What counts as cultural appropriation? What doesn’t even if it might still be offensive?

Can labeling things as “cultural appropriation” sometimes end up being a little problematic (example when they assume that a stereotype a part of a person’s culture)? 

I would love to hear your guys’ thoughts on this!

[sjws-are-problematic]

Personally, I think that as long as something is respectful and in good taste, it's not appropriative. Like, wearing a kimono to mock or make fun of Japanese culture is not okay, but wearing a kimono because you have an understanding and appreciation of the culture and the significance of the particular item (in this example, a kimono) within the culture, such as how/why/when it is used would be okay. But of course, it's not this way with everything -- especially religious items. Wearing a hijab if you're not Muslim is questionable even if you claim to be doing it out of respect for the culture and religion, and likewise with stuff like wearing a rosary if you're not Catholic, etc.

[fakewoke]

4/25. peep.

[chasynlife]

Watch this until your eyes break. This is what we’re facing.

[reinbow-ribbons-deactivated2018]

“the riots are just senseless violence”

If you’ve been paying attention to the news and still hold ths opinion I’d like you to refer to this John F. Kennedy quote:

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

[dgtldruglrd-deactivated20180531]

LMAO GUYS IM CRYING

[sandandglass]

The Nightly Show, September 24, 2015

[cizayox]

I love how potato in French is pomme de terre, which pretty much means “earth apple.”

like what stupid frenchman saw this:

and said “zis petite légume looks like a, how you say, APPLE! hmmm… but it grows in ze earth… HON HON HON! MAIS OUI! C’EST UNE POMME DE TERRE!”

[michaonthemoon-blog]

j’adore comment ananas se dit pineapple en anglais, ce qui veut littéralement dire “pomme de pin”, genre quel type anglais a vu ça:

et s’est dit : “ow cette étrange big fruit ressemble à une, how do you say, POMME! hmmm… mais plutôt une pomme qui pousse dans les pins… HU HU HU! OH YES, IT’S A PINEAPPLE!” (z’avez vu, on peut le faire aussi… hon hon hon!)

[merrinish]

WELL PLAYED, FRANCE.

[bryko-deactivated20170127]

how the fuck does Old Man Jenkins weigh 250 pounds if Spongebob weighs 1 ounce

[bryko-deactivated20170127]

[sjws-are-problematic]

“white people have no culture!!”

oh

i’m sorry

what’s that?

i wasn’t

aware

that europeans

don’t have rich

and fascinating cultures

or that culture

has to comply

with tumblr’s definition

of what culture is

in order to be counted as legitimate

white people have tons of culture so shut the fuck up about white people “not having any culture”

[bluehour875]

When people make fun of white people fir not having culture, it’s a dig toward American white people because they have a constant habit of misappropriating other people’s culture’s instead of celebrating their ancestors. Also Europeans aren’t angels either but that’s another topic.

[sjws-are-problematic]

No one is saying they're "angels". All I'm saying is that it is false to claim that white people have no culture. Even white Americans have cultures that are diverse and vary across the country.

This post is not intended to claim that white people or Europeans are perfect. You're jumping to false conclusions by your own assumptions. The only purpose of this post was to point out that the whole White-People-Have-No-Culture mentality on this site is wrong, it is toxic, and it pisses a lot of European bloggers off when y'all pretend like America is the only place that exists.

[sjws-are-problematic]

“white people have no culture!!”

oh

i’m sorry

what’s that?

i wasn’t

aware

that europeans

don’t have rich

and fascinating cultures

or that culture

has to comply

with tumblr’s definition

of what culture is

in order to be counted as legitimate

white people have tons of culture so shut the fuck up about white people “not having any culture”

[vodka-astrology-blog]

say it again

[throwaway420666-deactivated2021]

OK BUT NO ONE SAID EUROPEAN COUNTRIES DONT HAVE CULTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE THING IS THO THAT THEY DONT HAVE A SHARED CULTURE!!!!!!!!!! THUS THERES NO ~WHITE~ CULTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT THERES A FRENCH! RUSSIAN! GERMAN! ITALIAN! ETC ETC CULTURE!!!!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sjws-are-problematic]

Are you implying that their is a shared "Black culture" or "Asian culture" that could generalise entire races of people because that sounds pretty racist?