Why I hate it when other white people say the phrase: “I’m not racist”
Because I still am one. Because it never goes away. Because as a white person, I have absorbed messages for my entire life that I am better than the majority of people on earth, I have absorbed messages telling me that the only lives worth caring about are the ones belonging to those with pale skin. Every day of my life, I absorb more messages that tell me that. Those voices in my head are pretty loud.
There is no “delete” button for that.
What can happen is that the voices of people of color can be louder. If you really listen, if you commit yourself to looking whiteness in the face for what it is, you can hear other voices, voices screaming out their own humanity in the face of white supremacy. They shout pretty loudly.
But the racism is still there. It always will be. It never goes away. You can fight it, but you are never absolved.
As soon as you say: “I’m not racist” you wash your hands of any further responsibility to fight those messages that tell you that white skin makes you better, that anyone without it doesn’t deserve empathy or human dignity. As soon as you say “I’m not racist” you commit yourself fully to racism.
Yup.
The Dandy Lioness: If there were no organized religions
People would still hate those who don’t identify as heterosexual. That’s the problem with all this “for the bible tells me so” shit. The bible didn’t tell you that shit! You went in the bible and found something to support your fear and prejudice against a marginalized…
Queen Beth Ditto
“But wherever you shop, if stores don’t have clothes in your size, let them know. Try something on, stretch it out, rip it up, and put it back on the hanger as your way of saying, ‘Fuck off. Thanks for making clothes that don’t fit me.’”
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"I’ve seen a ton on the facebooks about “thanking veterans for their service.” As a veteran let me just be very straightforward and honest with you. We didn’t “serve our country”; we don’t actually serve our brothers/sisters or our neighbors. We serve the interests of Capital. We never risked our lives or spent months on deployment away from our family and friends so they can have this abstract concept called “freedom”. We served big oil; big coal; Coca-Cola; Kellogg, Brown, and Root and all the other big Capital interests who don’t know a fucking thing about sacrifice. These people will never have to deal with the loss of a loved one or the physical and/or psychological scars that those who “serve”, and their families, have to deal with for the rest of their lives. The most patriotic thing someone can do is to tell truth to power and dedicate yourself to building power to overthrow these sociopathic assholes. I served with some of the most real and genuine people I’ve ever met. You’ll never see solidarity like the kind of solidarity you experience when your life depends on the person next to you. But most of us didn’t join for that; we joined because we were fucking poor and didn’t have many other options."
An anti-capitalist veteran (via elitc)
Well heres a take on it not often uttered or shared
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Today, I made some calming manatees, but most of them are the wrong size to go on the site.
Oh well. Would you like them?
oh it’s me…
i am a comforting sea cow
No, I didn’t just cry over a manatee meme. And it totally wasn’t because these are all things I wish someone would tell me. It was because I really enjoy manatees and text on pictures.
*sob* Thank you, Calming Manatee!!!
Calming Manatee is the best.
these are AMAZING
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ladypandacat replied to your post: i dont like dramatic words in articles and shit …
I say whopping haha!lol really?? first person i know who says it lol
Only people I’ve ever heard legitimately use the word are Georgians, (where I’m from), and they pronounce it “whoppin’ “. I’ve never heard somebody actually pronounce the g, haha!
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“blah blah blah love myself blah blah blah guess how much weight I lost now look at the pictures blah blah blah I was eating too many fatty and sugary foods blah blah blah now I’m amazing and fucking awesome blah blah blah loved myself then and now equally that’s why I’ve gotta post fucking pictures showing you how good I look now”
tag: #thinspo
^^^^ You want me to think this shit is “body postive”? The very fucking LEAST you could do is not tag it fucking thinsporation.
GO FUCK YOURSELF IF YOU THINK THINSPO/BODY POSITIVITY ARE THE SAME SHIT
"Conventional wisdom tells us that obesity itself is a major cause of clogged arteries—the rationale being that more fat on the body equals more fat in the blood stream equals more fat build-up in the arteries. However, most of the studies that have looked at the relationship between body weight (or body fat) and atherosclerosis—via coronary angiography or by direct examination of artery disease at autopsy—find that fat people are no more likely to have clogged arteries than thin people (4, 11, 27). In some instances results entirely opposite to conventional wisdom are observed. For example, when researchers at the University of Tennessee (4) evaluated coronary angiograms of more than 4,500 men and women, they found that the risk of having a clogged artery actually decreased as body weight increased. In other words, it was the fat men and women who had the cleanest arteries. Although this finding is exceptional, the preponderance of angiography studies of this nature do undermine the notion that obesity inevitably results in clogged arteries."
Obesity, Health and Metabolic Fitness by Glenn Gaesser, Ph.D.
Definitely read the whole article, it’s wonderful.
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