Never give up and good luck will find you.
Attreyu’s horse gave up and look what happened to him.
(also in the book the horse could talk)
Because different rules apply to men, even in 2012bossy damn menz shut up
yes good yes
love the irony that you can see the guy’s naked chest, but he’s covering up half of his face.
I don’t blame you for being privileged. I don’t blame you for being born the way you are. I don’t blame you for the society your ancestors built, or for living when you do.
But I do blame you for denying that you are privileged.
And if and when you do acknowledge your privilege, I will not…
This is well-written because it is so applicable to so many different types of privilege.
These things are ingrained in me, are a part of my personal identity. Nobody writes about what Whiteness actually is. There’s plenty of literature on White Supremacy, plenty of literature on White people, but little to none on Whiteness. I couldn’t tell you what being White means, beyond being privileged. So I’m attempting outline what White culture is, what White Identity is, etc etc. Maybe if I can explain, I can fix it. I want to make it clear I’m not saying this is some “oppression” or “burden” Whites have. It’s a cultivated lack of self-awareness that means I was dropped into a fucking awful situation and given all the tools necessary to make it worse. The reason racism persists is because Whites don’t know a thing about themselves and make no effort to rectify that flaw. They can tell you about other races. They can tell you about other Whites. But they can’t tell you a thing about themselves, except to insist in convoluted language that they’re not doing anything wrong.
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I’m pretty unwelcome from DTWPS (by the author’s wishes) from certain outlooks I defend, but this dialogue is one of the best examples of required reading for the modern internet equalist. The subjects of deliberate versus non-deliberate supremacy, self-awareness, language… opening us up enough to peel our eyes to always finding more and more cultivated racism in the nuances of society… there are too many excerpts worth quoting here. Maybe I’ll quote them in the future, but the “read this or shut up” page is absolutely required-reading before anyone inserts themselves in the tumblr scene of racial discussion. http://dumbthingswhitepplsay.tumblr.com/post/16595836152/just-saying |
Illium is just Omega with expensive shoes.
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Tela Vasir, Mass Effect 2 I know I’m not supposed to even like that character, but dammit, I think she’s awesome. (via jemimaaslana) |
White people just don’t know how to read…
lol really, they don’t.
[WARNING for loads of racist bullshit in the “response” from laserfish5000, under the “read more” cut]
I wouldn’t (and never did) deny privilege. In fact the very choice of denying a collective identity in heed of the individual is an exclusive privilege to the privileged group, because only the privileged group isn’t being marginalized into a forced collective identity.
I never claimed that whites are ever oppressed or discriminated against in my culture (because they aren’t). Feel free to try and give me an example of me saying so, as well as an example of me denying privilege. 100% of it is still online as long as she didn’t delete or edit anything (she made a post asking me (to put it nicely) to not come around her blog anymore, so I’ve stayed away).
That’s why Cruelestyouth was such a frustrating experience - never was she attacking any implicit or explicit points I was making and instead she strawmaned me into a privilege-denying supremacist because of intents that shared little similarity with any of my argument.
I wasn’t offended by any of her opinions of race relations. I was offended by her strawman arguments, baseless accusations, and getting her friends to team up on me for terrible things I don’t believe in. If that’s unreasonable then I guess I am.
Also, (ever since Mary Anne Mohanraj’s recent internet fame) people have gotten sloppy with the different sociological definitions of racism, discrimination, oppression, and prejudice, to much semantical dismay. Racism is “hatred or intolerance of another race or other races” whether it is against/from the privileged race or not. It’s different from discrimination - a minority can be racist against a culture’s privileged race, but a privileged group can’t be discriminated against. Oppression and discrimination require power, but racism does not. If you lump racism and discrimination/oppression together (which can be tempting as racism is a part of both), it can become a serious source of contention, as it apparently has been in this case.
