WTF White Privilege: Archive

Dec 23, 201124 notes

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?

POCs are not the only minority group discriminated against. And People of Color discriminating against a gay person would be homophobia—no matter the race of the person.

Dec 23, 2011

Dec 22, 201157 notes

“Your heart being broken over being called racist is a drop of piss in the urinal compared to actual people of color having to contend with systemic racism, blatant discrimination, and micro aggressions on a daily basis. You get to feel bad for five minutes, log out of Tumblr, and go back to your life. Marginalized people don’t have that privilege; I suggest you check yours.” —

-Crankyskirt

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Dec 22, 2011164 notes

#white privilege #check it #racism

Dec 22, 2011146 notes

#ryan gosling #white privilege #slut walk

Dec 22, 20111,353 notes

#race #whiteness #white privilege #conservatives #stfu

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 color to pick them out. We are not exotic beings from another species; we are all human and all different. These racial stereotypes make us into interchangeable, replaceable objects with no personal desires.

Submitted by Marcus G.

Bolding mine. Shoutout to my old “friend” who told me I had jungle fever and said he wanted some “tight, Asian, pussy.”

….?

Dec 22, 2011281 notes

#whiteness #poc #fetishizing #fetish #sex

“

Here’s the thing: If you’re using the holiday season to go out of your way to be an asshole to someone, believer or non-believer, you’re doing it wrong, and I wish you would stop. That’s not a war, it’s a slap fight and it’s embarrassing. As a non-believer, when someone says “Merry Christmas” to me, I say “Merry Christmas” back, because generally speaking I understand that what “Merry Christmas” means in this context is “I am offering you good will in a way I know how,” and I appreciate that sentiment. Left to my own devices, I use “Happy holidays” because I know a lot of people who aren’t Christians (or at least Christmas-centered) and that seems the best way to express my own good will; the vast majority of people get what I’m doing and appreciate that sentiment too.

I think most people get the idea that regardless of religion or lack thereof, we’ve designated this time of year as the one where we make an effort to be decent to each other. Accept it. Welcome it. Live it, in the best way you know how. Be tolerant and gracious when others share this sentiment in a way different than you would. Look for what they’re saying means, not just the words they use to say it. It would be a fine way to have everyone enjoy the season.

” —

John Scalzi on The War on Christmas(tm)

Yay, Scalzi. I do exactly the same.

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Dec 22, 20111,228 notes

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. I'm in Texas. I hear EVERYONE calling people 'spics' and 'wetbacks'. White people, black people, everyone.

I’m in Texas too.

http://madamethursday.tumblr.com/post/14617908247/women-can-be-sexist-fat-people-can-be-sizeist

Dec 22, 20113 notes

Dec 22, 201117 notes

#racism #white privllege #native americans #facebook #disclaimers #submission

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…

Dec 22, 201151 notes

#new york magazine #troy davis #fuck these people #hasm

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

Dec 22, 201169 notes

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 they didn’t want to be considered to be in the same position of Blacks even though they were similarly discriminated against.

Dec 22, 2011101 notes

#white privilege #white folks #slurs #how the irish became white

madamethursday:

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, people. Things like: “internalized misogyny” rather than just “misogyny” and “internalized racism” rather than “racism”.

No, women can’t be sexist. Even if a woman did and said all the sexist things that men do, her words and actions would still lack the power a man has because of the patriarchy and sexism/misogyny.

For example? The word “bitch”. A woman using against other women it will never equal the effect of a man using it against women. Her use will never have the same force. When a man says “bitch” there’s a whole different dynamic that comes into play. When a woman says bitch she’s hurting herself. Even as she’s acting from internalized misogyny, by taking down the status of women, she is taking down her own status.

Men don’t stand to lose a damn thing by saying “bitch” (or any other word that is derrogatory towards women).

That’s why any reasonable definition of racism (and other -isms) must be centered around power differentials. Power makes all the difference.

You can hate someone all you want, but unless you have the power to make your hatred resonate and surround the object of your disdain without it blowing back on you? It doesn’t really mean much.

A PoC can’t be racist because even if they hated, despised and wanted all white people to die (a sentiment I wouldn’t blame anyone for, because we white folks have really been a collective scourge on this planet) - they can’t arrange the world to put white people at a disadvantage. The boon white people get from having a world that reflects, glorifies, favors, and validates us in every aspect doesn’t go away. No matter what hurtful actions a PoC takes against white individuals.

Hell, even the meanest name in the English language they could use would never be as hurtful or have as much force and as much ability to assert dominance as the words white people have for people of color - words which, like the language of Mordor, I refuse to utter here.

So, no. Your definition is wrong. Women, fat people, disabled people, PoC, etc cannot be any of those things. They can internalize them and act out of them, but lacking institutional power is what makes the difference.

It’s not just about hatred. It’s about having the power to inflict your hate on others that really matters. Prejudice without power is like a tiger in a cage, all you have to do is step back a few steps and you’re safe. Prejudice with power is like radiation, it’s everywhere and you can’t outrun it.