madame thursday

Seriously, think about it.

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

alexandraerin:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

stfuandlistenwhitepeople:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

akagoldfish:

This is perhaps the main reason (white) social justice activists, be it on tumblr or in real life sketch me out. The very use of the word “justice” in this way gives me pause. What good is social justice in a society where justice has been systematically defined and enacted so as to favor the dominate ideology, only siding with the marginalized when the gulf between principle and practice becomes to large to simply rationalize or ignore?

Social justice would seem to be nothing more than a way to ‘philosophize disgrace’ and prevent the revolutionary destruction of the social order which uses its justice as a tool to oppress and marginalize

I didn’t even think of it that way, but you’re right. Justice has been notoriously used to refer to the spoils gained by the winner, hasn’t it?

So where does it go from here?

I think the first thing is that it needs a new turn of phrase.

Instead of “Social Justice”, let’s call it “Social Upturning”. I thought of “Uprooting” at first, but that sounds too violent.

I actually like uprooting because it sounds violent. Because I think that’s necessary. White people play that language game, let’s take them to task on OUR rules.

If my opinion as an uprootee isn’t intrusive…

Uprooting really feels like a really evocative description to me, compared to “upturning”. It’s not as easy flipping over a table (what “upturning” calls to mind), it sounds like you’re fighting something deep and entrenched with a lot of little tiny branches. If you just chop down the obvious growth on the surface, it’ll grow right back, and even if you attack the root it’s hard to know you killed it.

And from the point of view of people brought up in whiteness: “uprooting” in the figurative sense is what it takes. We have to be removed from that element of our upbringing, or remove it from ourselves.

Once again, AE reads my mind, cause this is the other reason I liked it so much. Tree-trimming at racism is what white people have been doing. They cut a couple of branches and go “hey look at what we’re doing, isn’t that nice?” But everyone knows when you don’t get the root of the weed, it just comes back.

It’s twice as amazing because…

thebaddominicana:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

ethiopienne:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

ethiopienne:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

Racial-based hate crimes still make up like 49% of all hate crimes, period. That basically means that there is NOTHING as dangerous in this world as being non-white. Anti-black hate crimes make up nearly 3/4s of all racial hate crimes.

There’s just nothing in this world as dangerous as being black. Nothing at all.

And that’s got studies behind it.

It’s not like I needed statistical confirmation of this because I already knew it, but damn. It hurts more when you read it like this.

I think that’s what’s necessary though. For not just non-black people to see it, but for us to realize that none of this shit is in our minds or imaginary or oversensitivity or overreacting.

It’s fact.

Exactly. Because there are some mornings when I wake up and I just DO NOT WANT to deal with the bullshit I know I’m gonna have to face and for just one quick second I start to doubt whether it’s really as bad as I think it is. And then I get the proverbial slap in the face that reminds me it’s not as bad as I think it is. It’s worse.

YES. There have been days where I am so tired and angry and confused and wondering what more I can say to get these white people to understand, and wondering if there is really just something I am somehow missing, maybe I’m overexaggerating, maybe it is just me.

But, it’s really not. I have to live my life in fear of whiteness.

At the same time though? I’m so much happier than I ever was when I was seriously black-hating. Even though I have less friends, even though I’ve pulled away from all the things I used to do…I have much more self-love right this moment than I’ve had since I was a small child.

the bolded. yasssss

Why you’re being problematic - A Heartfelt Letter to Nerdydyke (Please Reblog)

eshusplayground:

notyourkinddear:

queernonymoose:

Okay, so. Firstly, I am going to address language.

I think a good article for you to read is Fabian’s The Other Revisited. It discusses some things that I think you need to read and understand about why we pick apart and have issues with your language, and why you still perpetuate racism and privilege within your speech/writing.

A part of that, you seem to constantly take issue with the fact people are saying to go back into your hole.

Who established the hole? You did. I of course made jokes about Christ (because, as part of your language, you constantly portray yourself as this martyr or Christ like figure to us) and myself as Mary Magdeline putting the rock on said hole.

Now carefully again read that. Saying you should go back to the hole, that which you created, is in no way violent or aggressive. Even with capitals, it is not. Okay? Because how you can figure that we are going to jump through the laptop and put you in a hole (which we’d have to dig btw, and I am far too fucking lazy for that shit). Saying to go back to your hole is not a death threat.

“However, do not assume that just because I’m white that I am inherently racist or that I know nothing. Read more: http://nerdydyke.tumblr.com/page/2#ixzz1km90Uzp2 “

Yes. Because you are white, you are inherently socialized to be racist and IT IS A HARD THING TO GIVE UP.

Secondly.

You are now using tropes and things that white people use constantly to us. E.g Savior Model, and I’m not all white whaaaaaaat. I’d like to direct you to Derailing For Dummies. I want you to read every single piece. Yes, every single one, and try to find examples where you yourself have done the exact same thing.

You seem to really take issue about the fact that we don’t want, need, or care for your critiques/inputs about OUR issues and OUR concerns, etc. Well guess what, nerdydyke. Not everything is about you. I am sorry if you feel bullied because we want to establish a safe space AWAY from people like you who have continuously proven to be problematic. It’s a thing about trust. Trusting white people comes really, really hard. Even if you are marginalized because you are a lesbian, who are a WHITE LESBIAN. Your whiteness is not somehow ignored or made different because you are in fact a lesbian. There has been numerous critiques on the fact that white heteronormative gays are preferred and perpetuating within the community.

Here are a few other resources, just for you.

Understanding and Dismantling Racism by Joseph Barndt.

Silent Racism: How Well-Meaning People Perpetuate the Racial Divide by Barbara Trepagnier

Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonila-Silva

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel

Don’t say I never gave you anything… here’s a POC (queernonymoose) offering you an education. Don’t think just cuz it’s written to a particular person it doesn’t apply to you too. All you sorry white people that have been reblogging me/messaging me with your “but I need you to explain it to me nicely” better read up, cuz this is all of it.

FREE EDUMACATION, WHITE FOLKS! FREE EDUMACATION! Come get it while it’s hot!

White people, I’mma need y’all to stop this nonsense.

whatwhiteswillneverknow:

You guys just have a penchant for sniffing out anti-racist blogs for people of color, and flooding them with anon hate that consists of incomplete sentences and racial slurs. I mean, this isn’t an isolated incident habit, this is an actual thing. Like, a real, legit thing that y’all just do for funsies. I know that blogs like this bother you, but it took me a long time to figure out why. (I just started this blog what, 3 days ago and y’all are already flooding in like the levies of hell just collapsed.) But I realized it. It literally just hit me a few minutes ago, why you guys do this.

You really dislike people of color who will actually stand up to white people when they’re being oppressive. And I’ve always known this, but it just sank in all the way. Like, you guys hate the fact that you’re not the targeted audience; you hate the fact that you’re the one in the spotlight, but for negative reasons, and you hate that things that you’ve lived with for your entire life are being called into question. You’re in the interrogation chair, and it makes you uncomfortable, and confused, and angry, because you think that it shouldn’t be you, it should be us, because ~that’s how it usually works~

And I mean, this seriously pisses you off, doesn’t it? It really chaffs your ass that I don’t just sit here and take it! Holy shit, man, it re-he-he-heeeeeally makes y’all mad! So you take to my inbox, set yourself to anon, and call me a slur. I don’t know what you’re hoping to achieve, but that’s what you do. And I give you a snarky response. So you call me a slur. Again. Not even a different one. The same one. As if to go, “What? What’s wrong with this magical slur? It’s not working! Let’s try it again, maybe that was just a fluke.”

And when it sinks in that you’re not going to hurt my feelings, you call me the same exact slur as before, but this time, in all caps for emphasis. And when that doesn’t work, “Let’s do it in all caps, and repeat the word over and over again a few times!”

Seriously, what the fuck do you think you’re going to accomplish?

What, do you think that calling me or other POC a ~Nigger~ is the magical key to getting us to stop? Did you think it’d make me cry? Shut down this blog? Did you think it’d hurt my feelings?

Let me ask you something else: Have you ever considered that calling me a racial slur only gives me more reason to keep going because by doing that hateful, bitter shit, you are proving my point?

And it’s honestly the best you can come up with; calling me a nigger over and over again, as if your thought process is, “Maybe if we say it enough, she’ll get it, and she’ll stop.”

Guess what? I’ve had “nigger” thrown at me more times than I can count. I cringed the first few times it was in my inbox, but now, I don’t even give a fuck, and that’s honestly the worst thing anyone can call me. So if you think that you’re going to hurt my feelings so much that I’m just going to finally break and shut this bad boy down, then you are wasting your time. You’re not wasting mine; I thoroughly enjoy forcing your ass into a seat. But you might want to just stop. Stick around. Get educated. Or continue to show your ass and let me slap it with thumb tacks, because I’m fine with that, too, and am having a lot of fun putting your gray booties in a row.

Stay pressed, bb(s), it brings me joy.

*And I did not say all white people, so if someone tries to interject with that bullshit, so help me god…

Shout out to everyone who thinks I’m a white supremacist

lebanesepoppyseed:

notyourkinddear:

lebanesepoppyseed:

sunburnedleah:

My first post was provocation
My second one was explanation
My third one was my defense
My question is, why are people flying the offensive, racist symbol of the confederate flag today (my answer is ignorance and poverty)
I want to end racism in Appalachia and the South through education and economic stimulation

So calm the fuck down.

Here’s my thing though

If you’re such an anti-racist, then you’d know full well your initial post was hella uncalled for and in fact racist and wouldn’t have posted it?

So the fact that you did and are now scrambling to make excuses for yourself and continue being racist by saying shit like “calm the fuck down” and acting like you, a white person, can properly educate and answer the question of why the confederate flag is racist over black people who HAVE FUCKING KNOWN SINCE THE FIRST DAY WHY THE FUCK IT IS RACIST only incriminates you more.

There are some open seats in the K But U Rong Doe stadium

Would you care to please fucking take some.

#I call bullshit #all these white people always wanting to socially experiment with racism

^^^ Our lives are not a game or experiment for white people to play around with. If you feel the need to provoke POC, you are, indeed, a racist. If you use words like “uppity” and “calm the fuck down” towards people who find the shit you write offensive, you are, indeed, a racist. It’s going to take more than economic policy and education to cure racism, seeings as plenty of educated people are racists. It’s not just “poor ignorant hicks” that are racists, not by a long shot. And they aren’t the ones doing the most racist damage. It’s people who treat POC as an academic exercise and then claim some white savior plan as their real intention that are the worst.

“It’s people who treat POC as an academic exercise and then claim some white savior plan as their real intention that are the worst.”

Fucking THIS

Everything that lebanesepoppyseed and notyourkinddear have said is true. Fellow white people we need to get this through our inch thick shields of white privilege and white supremacy and stop doing this shit, like, yesterday.

IMPORTANT: ACTA is NOT official and has NOT been voted on.

sirmuarjo:

lordmeowrail:

( I’d like to ask that anyone who reads this to PLEASE reblog this so there isn’t a widespread panic and violent protests. Tumblr needs to stop posting partial information. It is counterproductive and we need to know the truth so we don’t give up and think the fight is over. )

There wasn’t a vote. It was a signing and the voting isn’t going to happen for a while.

“The committee will most likely hold its vote on the ratification of the treaty in April or May, with a full parliament vote expected in June.” - Source

“The countries signed the treaty, which aims to harmonise copyright enforcement across much of the world, in Tokyo on Thursday. However, the signatures of the EU member states and the EU itself will count for nothing unless the European Parliament gives its approval to ACTA in June, and digital activists have urged citizens to lobby their MEPs against voting yes.”

“”The signature ceremony in Tokyo was just another step in the procedure that allows ACTA to now be taken to the European Parliament for a free, open and vigorous debate that we fully support,” he said.” - Source

“The European Parliament will be debating ACTA and activists are urging people to contact their MEPs putting forward arguments opposing ACTA. The European Parliament and each of the member states must approve ACTA before it goes into effect in the EU.” - Source

“But the political atmosphere in the EU remains very much in flux. The key to the future is that, unlike the US, the EU has admitted that ACTA is a binding international agreement and therefore requires parliamentary approval. But Parliamentary approval in the EU is in doubt.” - Source

Please read this. It has a list of countries that have signed, the countries that have not, and links and information on what you  can do to help out:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/26/eu-signs-up-to-acta

Once again, please reblog this wherever you can so the word gets around.

Finally a post with some fucking sources!!!