stvincentinexile:

If you are part of a privileged group and have to constantly demand that somebody in an oppressed group say “not all (insert privileged group here) are like that” 

what you are really demanding is that they reassure you that you’re not like that and you’re not being held accountable 

which is a cowardly thing to do and also shows the great lengths you will go to in order to avoid examining your role in a toxic system

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fuckyeahcracker:

fuckyeahcracker:

Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like That”:

• Literally nothing other than white people having their feelings hurt on the internet
• I’m not joking there is no real world consequence of this

Effects Of Thinking People of Color Are “All Like That”:

• Saudi student is literally surrounded by FBI for cooking rice under terrorist suspicions
• White people literally can not associate positive words with Black faces because of racism
• More white people use drugs but Black people are sent to jail for drugs at 10 times the rate that white people are
• Black people who “sound Black” earn less money than those who don’t because of associations with stereotypes. Black people who “sound Black” are less likely to get called back for jobs
• Black children grow up literally associating being Black with being bad and ugly
• White people when tested shot more unarmed Black subjects than armed and unarmed white subjects
• Hate crimes increase after Boston tragedy
• Moroccan High School Student is linked to Boston tragedy for being Brown
• Bangladeshi man is beaten by people out of racism
• NYPD Commissioner wants Black and Latino men to fear him after the police targeted literally 90 percent Black and Latino men in New York and humiliating them by frisking them in public under the assumption that they had weapons. Studies found that white men were the ones who overwhelmingly had weapons while Black and Latino men didn’t
• White people blaming and convicting Black men for crimes they never committed and everyone believing them because of racism
• Stop and Frisk, ruled unconstitutional was practiced by New York police disproportionately and unfairly affecting 90% Black and Latino men because of racism
• Universities throwing racist ‘Fiesta Party’ homogenizing culture with extreme racism
• Here are some of the numbers on hate crimes against People of Color and btw, Neo Naziism is increasing!
• Every 28 Hours an African American is Extrajudicially Murdered in the U.S.
• Black people 3 times more likely to be arrested for Marijuana
• Black people receive much harsher sentencing than white people for the same crimes do I need to go on?

But yeah, white people’s feelings :*(

I actually changed my mind, I’m adding more

• Deaf Black man is stabbed out of racism when his sign language is mistaken for a GANG SIGN
• Anti-Islam posters run free on the train to reinforce racism anti-Islamic sentiments and Islamaphobia
• Oops! Chicago police raids the wrong house, holds an 11 month old at gunpoint to raise their hand, kills their dog all because of racism and assuming it was a crackhouse! Oopsies
• Let’s take it overseas! Black people in England and Wales are 7 times more likely to be stopped by police than white people. Asian people are twice as likely
• People assuming Native american baby names are actually Native and have any meaning to any ethnic group when they don’t
• Here’s a whole collection of people saying racist stereotyping homogenizing disgusting stuff about Natives
• People protesting (Idle No More) defending Native people’s humanity are attacked with violence
• White kids think it’s totally okay and normal to photograph themselves lynching a Black baby doll like an effigy
  
• Member of the most glorified band in the world Paul McCartney made a racist white supremacist song called ‘No Pakistanis’ and everyone still glorifies him as a good person
• Racism in actual political campaign in Massachusetts against a Native runner portraying her name and image in a racist stereotypical inappropriate manner
• Indian Sikh school students protest for students who are banned from wearing their turbans in public schools in France
• Here’s a graph of the statistic that approx every 28 hours an African American is extrajudicially executed in the US
• NYPD profiling and targeting LGBT*Q People of Color
• Black students (especially boys and children with disabilities) face more and harsher punishments in public schools and are being pushed out of schools into the criminal justice system.
• Black male incarceration has jumped 500% from 1986 to 2004
• Albany police: SWAT literally uses a poor Black neighborhood to train in because they say it’s ‘realistic’
• The audio recording from a young man of color of a NYPD stop and frisking him based solely how he looks calling him a “FUCKING MUTT”
• Incarceration rates by ethnicity
• All of this fucking cultural appropriation

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merzbildschwet:

Egalitarianism is a useless ideology that panders to the idea that racism. homophobia, and sexism are over when they’re not, not even by a long shot. Egalitarians pride themselves in thinking everyone is equal despite not doing anything about social injustice. As long as racism, sexism, and homophobia are still rampant in society, simply thinking everyone is equal will accomplish nothing. 

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goldenphoenixgirl:

Rape culture can be described as a set of societal values that accept and normalize rape and sexual assault. Many argue that the culture of the United States is permeated by these dangerous values, and it’s easy to see why: women are often depicted as sexual objects, men as powerful and uncontrollable and rape/violence as normal and sexy. But still, we live in America. It’s not as if it’s typical for women to just be raped in the streets. Right?

In order to observe rape culture in its natural state, it’s most effective to observe it in an environment with minimal consequence to crime. This helps us to determine what influence cultural/social atmosphere has on people aside from simple avoidance of punishment. This makes homeless women (a group with few legal resources and little protection) the perfect group for studying rape culture at work.

The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape found that 92% of homeless women have experienced severe physical and or/sexual violence in their lifetime. Additional findings state that at least 13% of them had been raped in the last year. (Wenzel et. al, 2004) This trend also applies to homeless minors, who are at 2-3 times greater risk or rape. (Robertson and Toro, 1998)

Most homeless women who have been raped also suffer from mental illness (often caused by current/past abuse): nearly half of these women have attempted suicide as a result. (Browne, 1997). Given the intense correlation between abuse and the homelessness and mental illness it causes, it is perhaps most disturbing to note that for women who have been abused badly enough to suffer any kind of mental illness (such as depression), the odds of a homeless abuse survivor being raped again are virtually ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. (Farley, 1998).

The very fact that homeless women are raped so frequently illustrates not only to the frightening prevalence of rape culture at large, but structural support of rape, since this crime happens largely because of a lack of concern/resources from law enforcement and public health agencies.

We have declared, as a nation, that we stand for opportunity for all. Inscribed on the Statue of Liberty are the following words: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

The statue of Liberty stands as a beacon of hope. She is a woman, standing tall for the liberty and equality that the US is meant to represent. True liberty will be achieved, however, only when the homeless women she claims to protect can stand as tall as she does. 

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expandandsurvive:

Shutout to anyone with shitty/absent/abusive fathers today. 

You’re not required to love them just because they’re your father. 

Stay safe, and have some self care. 

beccabae:

the main message should still be that regardless of if someone is unhealthy or healthy or has a chronic illness or is engaging in potential health risks…they should still be able to post a picture of themselves and be celebrated and loved and complimented without someone feeling entitled enough to say that they need to change.

I’m sorry, but is that how you show concern or how you teach other’s not to engage in an activity?  by blatantly calling out someone and saying that they’re not right as they are and that they need to change or else they’re not okay.  that is not showing love or concern, that is isolating people and making them feel like shit mentally.  someone who very well could have been happy when they first posted the picture, but were met with the realization that by someone just looking at them they believe they have the right to tell them they’re not okay for just enjoying themselves.
if someone is seemingly happy and content as they are, leave them the fuck alone.  who are you to tell them what they need to be doing in order to live a fulfilling life?  don’t give them vague potential health threats.  they’re already aware of that shit.  you are not adding in anything they have not already heard before.

and even if someone does look miserable or ill in a picture, at what point does helping them and others like them equate to telling them that this is disgusting behavior and that they absolutely need to change how they are.  
if you’re concerned about somebody, send them a message that isn’t completely invasive and ask if they’re okay.  be kind to them.  show concern in a way that isn’t completely equal to ‘stop what you’re doing now’.  trying to get the route of the problem is far more efficient then just telling people they can’t have their coping mechanisms.

bottom line..physical health is not the epitome and end all of overall health. by claiming that you care about someone and then shaming them for something they’re doing physically, you are probably harming them mentally.  just be kind to others, be mindful of what you are saying to another human being.  even if you’re trying to set an example for others, you are still talking about an individual person to make that example.  is that fair?  trying to help people by supporting them on an emotional level is far more beneficial than just reblogging pictures of people and telling them that they’re wrong and gross for whatever your health reasoning is and that they’re a bad example for other people.

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