February 2012
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Regarding the difference between prejudice and...
Prejudice: [PoC calls white person a cracker].
Racism: Two centuries of PoC being stolen from their homelands, driven out of their native lands, tricked, raped, infected with disease, and otherwise downtrodden so as to remove them from any chance of being the dominant race.
Prejudice: [PoC gives a white person a nickname playing on the fact that they're white].
Racism: PoC must, from the moment they realize a baby is on the way, worry about whether giving a child a name reflecting their heritage will affect their chances at a good life in the future. Hint: it will.
Not racism: Calling out that slavery lasted for two centuries, and civil rights did not happen for PoC until the 20th Century (you know, the century which only ended TWELVE YEARS AGO).
Racism: We should not talk about it, because it makes [non-PoC] feel bad.
Not racism: A non-PoC actor can get pretty much any role s/he wnats.
Racism: ... including roles that were originally written as PoC. PoC actors must settle for roles making them servants, sassy women, jive turkey men, criminals, drug addicts, or abused downtrodden prostitutes, the better to reinforce the negative mental image of PoC in the minds of the zeitgeist, and hold up the excuse that "they bring it on themselves".
Not Racism: Flattering pictures of people used to represent them on the web.
Racism: Flattering pictures of Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Bachman. But the most unflattering pic available of Michelle Obama is used for the same article.
Not Racism: Articles about women's features.
Racism: Article purporting to have scientific "proof" that Black women are uglier than women of any other race.
Not Racism: America is where everyone is supposed to have equal chance.
Racism: Equal chance? Freed slaves were lucky if they got 40 Acres and a Mule, after working for free for generations for people who are now wealthy and offered no other reparations.
Not Racism: Irish History Month, Italian History Month, French History Month, German History Month, etc. All of which would, technically, qualify, btw, as White History Months.
Racism: It's not Cameroon History Month, Nigerian History Month, Egyptian History Month, Zimbabwean History Month, Zaire History Month, Somalian History Month, etc. It's BLACK History Month. Doesn't matter what country in Africa you come from. If you're Black you just all get lumped in together.
Not Racism: PoC describe their experiences.
Racism: Non-PoC interrupt, derail, silence, mock, deride, or cite "oversensitivity" because it makes them feel uncomfortable to know that PoC have endured this, and to have to acknowledge their privilege -- and their responsibility to do something about it if they really are as anti-racist as they profess.
...add your own examples.
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Today marks the beginning of National Eating...
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fuck yeah vegan pizza: Pesto Chicken Pizza with... →
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Enter to win one of two copies of Lane Gold’ Vegan Junk Food! At last count we only had something like 15 legit entries, so your chances of winning are super amazing! At least for now! Keep reading for the deets. Also: some seriously delicious pizza.
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People! Allow…
Oh oh pick me, pick me! Another favorite: vanilla mint soy ice cream shakes. Ohh...
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fuck yeah vegan pizza: Pesto Chicken Pizza with... →
veganpizzafuckyeah:
Enter to win one of two copies of Lane Gold’ Vegan Junk Food! At last count we only had something like 15 legit entries, so your chances of winning are super amazing! At least for now! Keep reading for the deets. Also: some seriously delicious pizza.
veganpizzafuckyeah:
People! Allow…
Cupcakes are my favorite vegan junk food. They just have a lightness and...
It's Full of Stars: What would happen if you fired... →
itsfullofstars:
Great question, and the answer might surprise you! Believe it or not, a gun’s ability to fire doesn’t depend on the presence of atmospheric oxygen. A gun will fire just fine in the vacuum of space because the gunpowder and explosive primer contain enough oxygen to create combustion and propel a…
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I just want to stand in a room full of...
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kingfishers: Things non PoC have taught me since I... →
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kharispaxton:
1. Speaking about the Holocaust in any context other than educational is downright immoral, 9/11 needs a trigger announcement and a disclaimer if you discuss it in public but the murder of over 30 million Africans is OLD NEWS that I need to just drop and get over.
2. In History class, no one complained that the exercises of reenacting the proletariat &...
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I apologize to Angels & Angles
This photo post was originally credited to the wrong person, feministhistorian: http://lyssypoobears.tumblr.com/post/17459914910/my-friend-isaac-made-this-it-is-from-a-wonderful
It was originally from the tumblrer Angels & Angles.
angels-and-angles asked: Hey, so your image of my "friendzone" quote showed up on my dash! Just wanted to send you a message to let you know I'm the original author of the article (feministhistorian reblogged it from me recently) so if you could redirect the link that'd be awesome (I reblogged it with the correct link), thank you! Also, tell Isaac thank you for the wonderful graphic and I'm glad...
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http://feministhistorian.tumblr.com/post/1645722030...
“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.”