Here’s an interesting video about white privilege.
Submitted by: thisiswhatilookliketoday
This is extremely powerful.
there has been a deepening recognition among elites in the West that as you begin to lose the power to control people by force, you have to start to control what they think. And in the United States, that recognition has reached its apogee.
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Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power (Source: noam-chomsky) |
I need
feminisma reform in the feminist movement because I want to finally talk about how the oppressed are hurt, not the privileged. I don’t fucking care about why straight people, cis people, white people, and men need feminism. Don’t talk to me about the terror of…
Why do political bloggers on here act like they’re master logicians because they know how to use the term ‘strawman’.
I guess some of this mad right-wing love comes from the idea that in America, anyone can become a Rich Guy if he just works hard and saves his pennies. Mitt Romney has said, in effect, “I’m rich and I don’t apologize for it.” Nobody wants you to, Mitt. What some of us want—those who aren’t blinded by a lot of bullshit persiflage thrown up to mask the idea that rich folks want to keep their damn money—is for you to acknowledge that you couldn’t have made it in America without America. That you were fortunate enough to be born in a country where upward mobility is possible (a subject upon which Barack Obama can speak with the authority of experience), but where the channels making such upward mobility possible are being increasingly clogged. That it’s not fair to ask the middle class to assume a disproportionate amount of the tax burden. Not fair? It’s un-fucking-American is what it is. I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share. That our civics classes never taught us that being American means that—sorry, kiddies—you’re on your own. That those who have received much must be obligated to pay—not to give, not to “cut a check and shut up,” in Governor Christie’s words, but to pay—in the same proportion. That’s called stepping up and not whining about it. That’s called patriotism, a word the Tea Partiers love to throw around as long as it doesn’t cost their beloved rich folks any money.
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| — | Stephen King, The Daily Beast: “Tax Me, for Fuck’s Sake” (via seriouslyamerica) |
COOLEST THING EVER.
For anyone who only sees gender and sex in black and white, here’s proof by the lovely humon that nature is just as fluid with representations of gender and sex as we are.
love this. The cuttlefish mating one blew my mind!
these need to be turned into pamphlets and handed out to people.
for serious.
SERIOUS.
I love cuttlefish mating. Brilliant. @ksej and I are more in the position of the seahorses, though.
This is so adorable.
This pleases me.
this is both adorable and cool!
white girl says “i am not Trayvon Martin……and neither are you, fellow white people.”
THIS is how you collect your folks.
girlfriend lays it down, this is so important. i am george zimmerman, and so are you.
I don’t really think I’m George Zimmerman just because I’m white. I don’t really feel a need to shoot any minority children, so the comparison is sort of irksome. I’m white, not evil, so let’s not conflate the two.
you really missed the point of what she was saying.
Oh, I’m sorry, the comparison is “irksome”? It is irksome for you to be reminded that if you are white that you have been indoctrinated in the same way that Zimmerman was? Oh won’t someone think of how horrible it is for you to be reminded that Zimmerman’s behavior is a direct result of the way white people are taught to perceive and react to POC, particularly young POC men?
Did you even watch the video? Did you? How do you not see your white privilege when your first response to this video is “but not me! not all white people! that’s mean!”
Once again, face-down-asgard-up collects her people in most sexy of fashions!
Replace every time Carlin says you with proletariat and they with bourgeoisie and you see there is little difference between his argument and the one Marx made over 100 years ago. Carlin argues that the wealthy not only control and own the corporations and government, but also the media, which allows them to tell you “what to believe, what to think and what to buy,” preventing individuals from realizing the corruption and inequality inherent within capitalism. Marx called this false consciousness. One way to combat false consciousness is through intellectuals—you—who help communicate to the rest of the working class just how “badly they are getting fucked.” EP
Taste is not stable and peaceful, but a means of strategy and competition. Those superior in wealth use it to pretend they are superior in spirit. Groups closer in social class who yet draw their status from different sources use taste and its attainments to disdain one…
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News
legitimate criticisms of feminism:
-transmisogyny and the lack of inclusion of transwomen
-the racist history behind it and the lack of inclusion of woc
-ignoring and invalidating women with disabilities
-pretty much anything that falls under lack of intersectionality
-internalized misogyny and girl hate
-promotion of political lesbianism
-radscum
illegitimate criticisms of feminism:
-a feminist was really mean to me once
-they’re sexist against men
THANK YOU
IF YOU’RE GOING TO BE CRITICAL
DON’T BE FOR STUPID REASONS
Why is it, do you think, that children are always too young to hear the truth but never too young to be lied to, systematically, conscientiously, in the name of ‘education’?
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Ward Churchill on Perpetual War and State-Sponsored Terrorism (via mutualaddiction) (Source: reconnect-restore-rewild) |
Hip-hop was a problem because an underclass that had been left to die didn’t, and instead created a music decrying their conditions that was vivid, troubling and beautiful, a declaration of existence in the face of those who’d condemned them to oblivion. It screwed up the narrative, and thus was born an anti-rap racism in which symptom became cause, laments of violence and deprivation becoming justifications for violence and deprivation. Anti-rap racists hear rap music as proof that black men pose a uniquely violent danger to the American status quo, even as the entire trajectory of that status quo suggests it’s the other way around. As theories of history go it’s both aggressively incorrect and depressingly unoriginal.
Disliking hip-hop doesn’t make you a racist any more than liking hip-hop makes you not a racist, and I’m sure there are plenty of Stormfront enthusiasts with Rick Ross in their iTunes. If you don’t like Jay-Z because you just don’t like the way he sounds, or you’re sick of his cloying ubiquity, or you wish he’d talk about something other than where he’s from for five seconds—hey, I’m not mad, I don’t like Bruce Springsteen for the same reasons. But if you don’t like rap music—a genre that contains multitudes—because of a self-satisfied moralism, or because you’re scared of it, or because you wish those people would stop talking about their problems and get out of your television and radio and kids’ bedrooms: well.
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How Neocolonialism Works
