Still

Today I had a discussion about race with a friend who identifies as Xicano. It was pretty dissapointing. According to him:

-He doesn’t see race.

-Cultures should evolve and make new cultures.

-I am a selfish person if I were to kill Hitler instead of letting him live.

-White people can be racist to white people and people of color can be racist to white people.

-Doesn’t believe in the systematic definition of racism, ethnocentrism, class privilege, and colorism.

-Belives racism is dying.

-Doesn’t see white privilege.

-Thinks Mexico can use capitalism as effectively as America.

-Lets the example of one person speak for many(tokenism/ideological fallacy).

It was very dissapointing. Sadly, his bus came so I could not keep debating him.

thedismembermentflan:

Today I went to school and I ate lunch there and I heard this one underclassman I know say that he had to go to class.

So I just pointed at him and started laughing really hard and I kept laughing and I couldn’t control it.

Real women have curves” was a marketing slogan thought up to sell people overpriced, ill-fitting pants. It does NOT promote body positivity – it only perpetuates body policing by turning the tables on people who don’t fit into yet another arbitrary ideal.
The job is to BUST THE FUCKING PARADIGM APART, not shift it a little bit toward the fat side. The job is to remind people, bodies are not public property and your opinion about an individual’s body is only an opinion, not a valid judgment of their worth as a human being. The JOB is to destroy systemic oppression of nonconforming, rebellious bodies no matter what those bodies look like.

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—	(via blck-grrl)

$ladyatheist: struggle-and-emerge: I don’t agree with this. “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind…” Racism, whether against blacks, hispanics, asians, or whites, is racism nonetheless. How ‘bout we find a positive way of ending it rather than perpetuating it?? Cool, but you’re really wrong though. First of all, you really need to figure out what racism really is. Go ahead and read all of that first. … You done reading? Good. Now let’s move on. There is no “positive way” to end racism. That’s some hippie little pipe dream that can never come true. Racism is not a “positive” thing. It’s not comfortable and it doesn’t care about anyone’s feelings. No one asks nicely if they can oppress and dehumanize PoC. Due to that, conversations about race cannot be had in a “nice” way. The conversation has to be uncomfortable if you really want to get to the root of the problem and fix it. If you try to coddle white people’s feelings during the conversation, all you’re doing is making them think that there is no real problem and therefore no one should be complaining. That is part of the reason why we have a generation full of white people who truly believe that racism ended with the Civil Rights Movement. No group has ever gotten their rights by simply asking nicely for them. The world doesn’t work that way. If you want your rights, if you want to be treated and respected like a full member of society, you have to fight for it. You have to take it from them. During that fight, hell yes some people are going to be “uncomfortable.” They’re supposed to be. They have to be if you expect any real, tangible change to occur. So by calling white people “crackers,” no one is “perpetuating” a damn thing. All they’re doing is making white people experience a fraction of the discomfort they experience on a daily basis. That’s the only way you can really get them to even begin to understand.$

ladyatheist:

struggle-and-emerge:

I don’t agree with this.

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind…”

Racism, whether against blacks, hispanics, asians, or whites, is racism nonetheless.

How ‘bout we find a positive way of ending it rather than perpetuating it??

Cool, but you’re really wrong though. First of all, you really need to figure out what racism really is. Go ahead and read all of that first.

…

You done reading? Good. Now let’s move on. There is no “positive way” to end racism. That’s some hippie little pipe dream that can never come true. Racism is not a “positive” thing. It’s not comfortable and it doesn’t care about anyone’s feelings. No one asks nicely if they can oppress and dehumanize PoC. Due to that, conversations about race cannot be had in a “nice” way. The conversation has to be uncomfortable if you really want to get to the root of the problem and fix it. If you try to coddle white people’s feelings during the conversation, all you’re doing is making them think that there is no real problem and therefore no one should be complaining. That is part of the reason why we have a generation full of white people who truly believe that racism ended with the Civil Rights Movement.

No group has ever gotten their rights by simply asking nicely for them. The world doesn’t work that way. If you want your rights, if you want to be treated and respected like a full member of society, you have to fight for it. You have to take it from them. During that fight, hell yes some people are going to be “uncomfortable.” They’re supposed to be. They have to be if you expect any real, tangible change to occur.

So by calling white people “crackers,” no one is “perpetuating” a damn thing. All they’re doing is making white people experience a fraction of the discomfort they experience on a daily basis. That’s the only way you can really get them to even begin to understand.

just so you know, white ppl

ladyatheist:

zakimoto:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

the moment you say “colored people” in a conversation with black folk the conversation is done

like even if you’re all

“yo colored folk i found this cure for cancer”

errybody already done stopped listening after the “folk” part

don’t do it

So people of color and colored people are considered two different things? Honest question, I’m not even trying to be a dick hole.

People of color is ok because it was a term created for us, by us, to describe us.

Colored is not ok because it was created by white people to separate us, dehumanize us, and oppress us.

Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.

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—	Bell hooks (via kimikkomi)

ladyatheist:

thisgingersnapsback:

C-can we make this a virus that affects Tumblr, too?

Someone needs to get on this immediately.