December 2011
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Anonymous asked: POC are not the only ones discriminated against. What about when POC dicriminate against someone who's LGBT and white? Is the LGBT white person still being dicriminated against 'less' because the person attacking them is a POC?
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“Your heart being broken over being called racist is a drop of piss in the urinal...”
– -Crankyskirt
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Racial Fetishizing Is Not Flattering →
Ultimately, these attitudes cause a real problem for women of color. How are we to know whether someone is flirting with us because they have a genuine interest in us as people or because of their completely unfounded imaginary picture of minority women? Of course, there are plenty of men who fall into the former category, but the history of colonization makes it that much harder for women of...
“Here’s the thing: If you’re using the holiday season to go out of your way to be...”
– John Scalzi on The War on Christmas(tm)
Yay, Scalzi. I do exactly the same.
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specialkrj asked: Hey, i usually agree with you, but.. Women CAN be sexist. Fat people CAN be sizeist. Differently abled people CAN be ableist. Just saying, because you implied that none of them were true when I've seen enough internalized sexism, sizeism (real women have curves; only a dog wants a bone!), ableism (my autistic former friend would say 'retarded' constantly) And POC can be racist....
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The "Have A Seat" Movement: New York Magazine →
have-a-seat-movement-dot-org:
The Have A Seat Movement has been inactive for a few months but apparently the universe needs seats to be given to so many different people/organizations. Today’s seat is for New York Magazine. In their “15 Minutes Awards” section of their site they describe it as
“Oh, for the days of…
Sex with Neanderthals Made Us (white people)... →
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
soydulcedeleche:
lol you know they were gonna make up some superiority claims once they found out only blacks are pure human. white supremacists, why you so predictable?
lol when i saw that i literally died
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A note on racial slurs directed at White People →
vagabondaesthetics:
About 99.99999% of those slurs are created by other white people. And the vast majority of them have to do because those specific type of white people were impoverished. More specifically, it wasn’t about them just being poor, it was because they were poor “like niggers”. That is why, for example, the Irish fought so hard against Black people in the New England area because...
madame thursday: women can be sexist, fat people... →
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wtfwhiteprivilege:
and-icarus-fell:
wat
None of those up there are true. And yet again, when you say shit like that and then want people of color to be all ”Rah-Rah-Rah!” for your cause?
Naw…I can totally see why they wouldn’t want to get aboard that train.
Ugh. Where do I start with the WRONG in this statement.?
This is why we have words and phrases that MEAN THINGS,...
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"Not everything is about race!"
blatantlycynicalthings:
says the white people who never have to face discrimination based on race.
women can be sexist, fat people can be sizeist,...
and-icarus-fell:
wat
None of those up there are true. And yet again, when you say shit like that and then want people of color to be all ”Rah-Rah-Rah!” for your cause?
Naw…I can totally see why they wouldn’t want to get aboard that train.
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Response to Anon question regarding Jar-Jar Binks
Submitted by ragingcomics
Racial Ventriloquism
It may or may not be it. But it’s close
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The Colours of Autism →
Nominatissima:
I’ve talked enough times about ageism in mainstream autism coverage, with a constant, unvarying focus on the very young, with little to no interest in the lives and stories of autistic adults, especially middle-aged and elderly ones. But I haven’t done as much talking about another mainstream lie in constructing the autistic identity that’s equally prevalent: The myth of autism as...
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biddypunk asked: Hey, I like this blog a lot. If you don't mind helping me out I have a query- I'm looking for an article or essay that I found a few years ago about the Star Wars character Jar-Jar Binks and the list of ways his character was used to appropriate and demean a variety of cultures. I have absolutely no idea about its origination- it could be from a magazine or blog or just about anything....
I'm moving this week so I'll be off the net for a...
SOPA Emergency IP list →
anglophonic:
So when these assfucks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 # Social media reddit.com 72.247.244.88 imgur.com 173.231.140.219 google.com 74.125.157.99 youtube.com 74.125.65.91 yahoo.com...
Man pleads guilty to threatening to kill Prez &... →
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
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darling80m:
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well.
Threaten to kill the president and all it gets is a teensy weensy eensy little article.
wow ok
Anonymous asked: I love this blog, but your response to the adoption comment was incredibly hurtful and offensive being adopted myself. My parents may be white, but they're not the richest people in the world and they struggled to afford to adopt my brother and me. And I am grateful every day that they did and for the life I had. I'm sure there are plenty of other people out there like me.
Evidence for interbreeding with Neanderthals, only... →
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
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alexandraerin:
Prepare for the whiplash as suddenly Neanderthals become seen as the great and noble innovators of history, lifting primitive man out of the dirt.
I LITERALLY just fucking had this conversation with my parents. Like “oh now that white people are more related to neanderthals, new info is gonna be found...
Anonymous asked: more than the differing price for babies who are different races I'm creeped out by the fact that adoption costs that much money there in the first place.
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Dumb Things White People Say: Because Riley feels... →
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
How much you like a person has shit all to do with whether that person is racist. Anything nice that person did has shit all to do with whether that person is racist. How much you would personally jump off several cliffs and die ten million horrible deaths to save a person’s life has shit all to do with whether a person is racist. Other assorted things that have shit all...
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“The White Man that landed here, he came with two great weapons. One is the Bible...”
– Lewis H Michaux in “The Black Power Mixtape” (via knowledgeequalsblackpower)
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“So, focusing on the dick, if you tell everybody that black men are animals out...”
– fuckyeahasianmen (via fascinasians)
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The Nubian Witch: J.K. Rowling Is So Smart and Not... →
zorawitch:
Racism has been a keystone of her works since the first book, whether it be magicalist or colorist, and only a Person of Color, or a White person with a keen eye for racial politics, is able to see that the Wizarding World, though it values blood status more than other sorts of natural nuances, it is not “color-blind”. Wizarding Britain was just as imperialist and nationalist as...
“My wife and I are thinking of adopting and shockingly found in Texas, the cost...”
– The price of babies, by color | Chris Blattman (via abbyjean)
BUT OMG RACISM DOESN’T EXIST!
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That is seriously disturbing.
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That’s not even like, a minor difference. Jesus.
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Anonymous asked: Hey, would you mind please changing your formatting/font color (the white on white text in Question posts)? A lot of dyslexic people find text like that difficult to read. It's your blog so you don't have to, but it would be appreciated if you did! x
jethroq asked: Should people differentiate better between intentional, ideological racism and unintentional, institutionalized racism, that often stems from ignorance and lack of experience? Because yes, I understand many white people's thoughts are colored by an inherent idea of supremacy of white cultures, but to call that white supremacist? Doesn't that kinda take the edge of those who actually...