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Fri, 24 May 2013 02:37:49 -0400

Biggest lie told in schools: Bullying will not be tolerated.

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Biggest lie told in schools: Bullying will not be tolerated.

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Fri, 24 May 2013 02:27:36 -0400

davidscustomglasses:

avalonroselin:

abunchofassholes:

thisiswhiteculture:

sheishurr:

welp

and if any of you white people respond with “wait but I didn’t do that. that was in the past”

i need you to check your privilege

and then drink bleach if you think your hands aren’t dirty

They’re not.

Guilt doesn’t transfer from generation to generation. I am not magically accountable for something my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather MIGHT have done. Also;

>social justice blogger
>telling people to kill themselves

I love that there’s a blog called “this is white culture” that is solely devoted to bad things white people did, not their cultures at all. So I guess I can make a blog called “this is black culture” and post gang and crime records and that’s 100% okay. Or “this is Muslim culture” and make it all about terrorism.

But wait, you cry. Not all black people are criminals and not all Muslims are terrorists. That’s unfair! And racist!

WELL GOLLY GEE DO YOU THINK SO? Because saying that all white people are responsible for the Atlantic slave trade sounds pretty racist to me, given that, you know, that was between the African slaveholders and the British and Americans and had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with my ancestors, who were incredibly poor farmers and serfs from Ireland and Lithuania who had to flee to America at around the turn of the century (by which time slavery had already been abolished in the US) because they were being treated like slaves. Even if they had been living in America at the time when slavery was legal they wouldn’t have been able to afford a slave; in fact they probably would have been working with them in the fields and treated about the same, since the first slaves in America were actually white serfs. But please, tell me more about how dirty my hands are because of circumstances surrounding my birth that I could not control and continue to treat me differently based on the color of my skin without actually knowing anything about my heritage, I’m sure that isn’t racist at all!

whoa slow down there

Whether or not you consciously oppress POC

Whether or not your ancestors owned slaves

You benefit from white privilege

White people (myself included - I cannot separate myself from this) have a culture of privilege and racism; we live in a racist society and so we grow up with those values, even if we don’t consciously think POC are inferior, whereas there is not a culture/ingrained belief that white people are bad or suspicious or stupid or anything negative.

White people are not oppressed today so a “this is white culture” is acceptable; but we as white people CANNOT start a “this is black culture” blog because it’s a different situation.

Things white hate leads to:

hurt feelings

I feel like I side with the person before me and the person before that at the same time. Blaming white people for something their ancestors did is indeed racist and really isn’t fair but it’s not the same as the systematic oppression felt by POC.

White hate really doesn’t get us anywhere and I feel like it’s just taking a step backward from where we’re trying to go, same with skinny shaming and stuff like that. It’s not ever fair to judge person based on their skin colour and I think that’s something people tend to forget.

The answer to hate is not more hate.