[Image: Four gifs of comedian and show host Craig Ferguson on stage speaking. The captions read: Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything. “Does this need to be said?” “Does this need to be said by me?” “Does this need to be said by me now?”]
(Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything. 1) “Does this need to be said?” 2) “Does this need to be said by me?” 3) “Does this need to be said by me now?”)
Would-be White/male/straight/etc. allies, this means you. Reblog this for yourself and your brethren to reduce chances of showing your ass.
this is good-ass advice. for life.
aha i knew a guy at americorps who used these guidelines for his team meetings. when i heard it i was like YES. STEALING FOREVER.
THIIIIIIIIIIIS. THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS.
I want to mail copies of this to every failing white feminist who derails when WoC speak by saying things like, “But you shouldn’t have used the word ‘bitch’ or ‘cunt’ or ‘ho’.” It’s like, damn, see rule number 3. Did a discussion about a white woman being super the racist really need you butting in at that moment to say, “Buuuuut you called her a gendered slur when you were telling her how oppressive she’s being!”
God but all of this is good. These are officially the Three Golden Rules of Not Being An Ass on the Internet.
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Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”. “Friendzone” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “no”.—
this is an amazing quote
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I saw a white girl wearing earrings shaped like Africa today…
AND I LOST IT. Argh! It’s just so ridiculous! This baby faced college co-eds shopping for organic produce in their Toms and their Invisible Children bracelets, all paid for on their parents’ dime, flaunting their do-goodiness and their $$ at the same time. Give me a fucking break! It’s like Africa isn’t even a place anymore, it’s not a continent, it’s a commodity. Colonialism broke Africa and capitalism picked up the pieces and sold them to white people, and I hate it, and I’m sick of it.
You know, you run into a place, enslave all the people that live there, use up as much of the natural resources as you can, then force your social structure, religion, and languages on them but leave their economic structure in such a fashion that they’re stripped of agency and dependent on the so-called “first world” for any kind of stability, and then tell them all, “don’t worry, these goodwill ambassadors and missionaries will come give you shoes and Jesus, and everything will be okay.” Or, “if only you were more like us, you’d be able to survive.” And then you dangle the place from your ears because you care so much about their plight. Right? Right. It’s like wearing a prize won by centuries of violent colonialism and oppression. It’s so fucking disrespectful, and they don’t even fucking know it!! They don’t know!
I fucking hate these eco-socio-yuppies-in-training and I want to fart on everything they love.
Colonialism broke Africa and capitalism picked up the pieces and sold them to white people, and I hate it, and I’m sick of it.
Real talk here, listen up. This goes for us First Nations peoples too.
i have never heard this point more poignantly stated in my life.
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Post + commentary are all true and right and need to be paid close attention to.
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When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty and shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up and express their anger and frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.—
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His crusade. The KING they wont show.
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