haha my mind is an empty auditorium. I’m so uncreative ._.,
well it’s either music, number crunching, or thinking about the universe. but even when im doing other things there’s music playing in my head that reflects what i’m doing/how i feel
Let’s say that one day you log onto Tumblr and you see someone angrily posting about white people and racism and social justice in regards to race. Maybe watching that ranting is upsetting because you are white and wow, white people have done terrible things to colored people and that really isn’t fair. You’re not racist, or at least you try not to be, and you hate being lumped in with the white people before you who owned slaves or promoted segregation or people today who use slurs and make terrible jokes. It hurts to see people you care about so upset about things you cannot really change, about things they will have to deal with for the rest of their lives.
There are ways to handle these valid upset feelings while avoiding being destructive or offensive.
- Recognize and acknowledge the fact that you have white privilege. Instead of talking about how not all white people are that way or how not all white people have it good, accept that being born white puts you at a social advantage in comparison to a non-white person.
- Don’t apologize to colored people for “what your ancestors did.” It’s diminishing, it’s rude, it’s not okay. There are racist things that happen on a daily basis so apologizing for slavery really doesn’t make a difference to the black person you’re talking to. Neither does apologizing for Japanese concentration camps.
- Instead of being upset at yourself for being white, turn those sad feelings into wanting to make the system change. It’s one thing to feel bad about being white (which is what some racist people insist colored people are trying to do by having cultural pride). It’s another to recognize that society as a whole sucks and that you can make a difference by being aware.
- Don’t ask people to stop talking about it just because it makes you feel uncomfortable. If they don’t tag things, go ahead and try to ask them to start tagging those posts, but don’t ask them to stop talking about racism. Ignoring racism makes racism a bigger problem.
- Get educated. There is so much to learn about privilege and racism and oppression and being non-white in today’s world. Learning about it will help you stop making racial jokes or assumptions about people. It should not be the responsibility of colored people to teach you everything.
- We get “die n***** scum” in our inboxes
- We get compared to Hitler
- We’re told to think about the white people and their feelings in attempts to emotionally blackmail
- We’re told we’re “narrow-minded”
- We are bothered for hours with dipshits who hate us for calling their whiteness oppressive
- lol libertarians
Yeah…lol I need a break.
- All this and we get white people telling us that white people “aren’t all like that”, especially when we give qualifiers
- We lose “allies” who’ve decided that a single POC saying something they don’t like is a reason to drop da whole cause lol
- And ugh stalkers
god yes stalkers
- Hearing, “I get it, racism is bad but why get worked up over this? We should just LOVE each other!!”
When I or any other PoC talk about race, the absolute last thing I want to hear from you, aside from “Not all white people are like that,” is, “We should love everyone regardless of race! Love is love! Why worry about things like that? We should see past that! Love love love!”
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Did I fucking stutter.
Take your sentimental lovey dovey shit and get out. That’s just a copout from realizing that indeed you can be in the wrong. Because no matter how much you will ever claim to “love” PoC, if you can’t get a grip on your white privilege and rein in your folks, I don’t want your fucking love.
Amount of money a week I spent on food before going vegan including going out 3 times: $75
Amount of money I have spent on food after going vegan including going out 2 times: $127
Milwaukee is not vegan freindly. Unless you live on the eastside but even then you can’t go out without spending a shit ton of money. I don’t think I can actually go vegan. I exceeded my budget by over 50 bucks.
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This is an exert from the article Why There’s No Such Thing as Reverse Racism. It is a fantastic article and I encourage you to read it in it’s entirety. For now, I want to highlight the explanation/definition of three specific words.
Prejudice is an irrational feeling of dislike for a person or group of persons, usually based on stereotype. Virtually everyone feels some sort of prejudice, whether it’s for an ethnic group, or for a religious group, or for a type of person like blondes or fat people or tall people. The important thing is they just don’t like them — in short, prejudice is a feeling, a belief. You can be prejudiced, but still be a fair person if you’re careful not to act on your irrational dislike.
Discrimination takes place the moment a person acts on prejudice. This describes those moments when one individual decides not to give another individual a job because of, say, their race or their religious orientation. Or even because of their looks (there’s a lot of hiring discrimination against “unattractive” women, for example). You can discriminate, individually, against any person or group, if you’re in a position of power over the person you want to discriminate against. White people can discriminate against black people, and black people can discriminate against white people if, for example, one is the interviewer and the other is the person being interviewed.
Racism, however, describes patterns of discrimination that are institutionalized as “normal” throughout an entire culture. It’s based on an ideological belief that one “race” is somehow better than another “race”. It’s not one person discriminating at this point, but a whole population operating in a social structure that actually makes it difficult for a person not to discriminate.
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oh god i’m gonna die
WHO LETS THEIR KID WEAR BLACKFACE AS A MEANS OF HONORING A BLACK LEADER
y’all are ignorant as fuck
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