“They’re afraid of losing friends, being ridiculed in class, getting worse grades and are even afraid of being assaulted and physically hurt.”
good
no, not good. because if we hate them as much as Trump and his supporters hate certain groups, we are no better than they are.
yeah I am
“if you hate these bigots you’re just as bigoted as they are”
This “we’re no better than them” mentality makes the critical mistake that hate itself is the problem.
Hate is not the problem. At all. Hate can be constructive. Hate can be defensive and come from righteous outrage.
The problem is irrational hate towards innocent people.
Hating a racist is COMPLETELY fucking different from hating a race. A whole race didn’t do anything wrong. A racist did. Hating the racist is 100% proportionate, justifiable retaliation.
Fucking. Mic. Drop.
The reason that hate groups like the Klan have been driven so near to extinction is because of this exact thing. It became unfashionable to be publicly racist, and the backlash against those kinds of groups became unbearable for them. It drove them out of the limelight and into the very fringes of society.
This postmodern “hating the hate makes you just as bad” bullshit is what’s allowing them to re-prosper.
Fuck that.
Expose them. Make them lose their friends. Ridicule them in classes. If you can get away with it, beat their asses. Show them what it means that we will not go back to that way of life again. It’s time for the racists to be the ones who live in fear.
Hating bigotry does not a bigot make.
Imma just leave this here
Trump supporters mock safe spaces and trigger warnings all the time. Fuck Trump supporters.
This is getting ridiculous… and ironic. Mostly because you’re using lawful words.
See… “murder” describes the killing of one human being to another. Homicide describes the “murder”, but in full context. Homicide can actually be… lawful and state-sanctioned. If anything, “homicide” gives people more freedom than murder.
As much as I want to sit down and split hairs with you about word differences, this is kinda sad. ALSO @bransrath , you seem to like to tag me EXCESSIVELY so let’s take care of this once and for all.
Here’s a chart that I drew a few years back. I don’t like the fact that I was using red, but let’s avoid that because I’m tried and I got ish to do. I’m also going to explain the whole chart for context reasons.
Level 1 – Internalized Racism – racism that you can’t see within yourself. This also means you can hate yourself. For example, you realizing that White people gets attention and you secretly wish you were White for whatever reason.
Level 2 – Interpersonal Racism – It’s internalized racism, but speaking out loud (or worse, acting out). This is also the most common type that people talk about. When celebrities get called out, for example.
Level 3 – Institutionalized Racism – This occurs within institutions and systems of power. For example… Blacks are thought of as criminals, hence when you mixed it with power, they tend to get harsher sentences.
Level 4 – Structural Racism – This occurs among Institutions and society. Examples: The on-going Drug War, real estate redlining and blockbusting, generification.
Now… people, no matter the color, CAN be racist to one another. However, it can only happen within the circle thought.
So, it’s possible for Black people to be racist to White people in an individual level. Yes, you actually read that right.
So why are we saying “racist vs. prejudice” tho?
Because we’re trying to get to the DAMN SQUARES!
You’re so busy focusing on your personal feelings being hurt and so on that you’re willing to cancel out the big ass square?
I understand… there are Black people who said stupid things about other races. But that’s all they can do. Talk. Even if they go around executing White people, they will get caught, they will be jailed or put to death rather quickly. Justice will BE done. It’s going to work in your favor. Those racists will not survive for long.
But when we (the reasonable people) talk about racism, most of the time, we’re talking about the squares. The majority of the times, tho… y’all want to “whitewash” racism. Y’all simply want to do that so that everything is “equal”.
It’s not “equal”. It never was “equal”. Sure, it’s downright ugly at times when I see some of these hateful thoughts being spewed to you. But if you’re still alive and breathing, then guess what? All you’re suffering from is prejudice.
I understand you guys want to talk about “murder” and all that. But even cops can commit homicide, right? And what y’all do? Explain why unarmed Black people deserves it.
So… are we done here? I got work to go to.
OP deactivated their account and the person who tagged me is speechless and don’t want to reblog this.
*sighs* wusses.
Also you can’t blame black people for being prejudice. We have a valid reason to be angry at whites as a whole. There is history behind it. White people however seem to be prejudice and racist towards most non whites simply because they aren’t white. Whites have a history of betrayal, genocide, rape and theft. So while a whites may have a beef with a black person or group of black people being for being mean they don’t a history of oppression from black people.
“Don’t fight hate with hate” is an example of subtle gaslighting, where our legitimate hurt & anger at the injustices we suffer is being equated to the bigotry & abuse of our oppressors.
Being angry doesn’t mean you are being hateful, it means you love yourself enough to get upset at your own mistreatment.
Hating an innocent person solely because of their race, sexuality, or gender makes you a fucking asshole
Just some actual daily reminders:
All white people do racist things without being aware they are
All straight people do homophobic things without being aware that they are.
All Cis people do transphobic things without being aware that they are.
All men do sexist things without being aware that they are.
Saying things like ‘some men’, ‘some cis people’ absolves the blame of individuals and only seeks to comfort those with privilege and power.
When a post says ‘some X’, the X will always assume that they are not because THEY ARE NOT AWARE.
And most importantly,
It’s calledmetonymy,when anyone who is oppressed makes an exasperated statement like ‘i hate straight people’, they are substituting straight people for the concept of a system and a culture that teaches, incentives, and legitimizes homophobic acts and normalizes homophobic acts so that straight people constantly do homophobic things without realizing it and that’s really fucking annoying.
And just as important,
The concept of sjws dehumanizes marginalized people and categorizes them as an ‘angry and emotional’ stereotype and only adds to the oppression of marginalized people under the guise of being ‘fair’, while the only thing you are doing is cushioning privileged people from their own ignorance and privilege.
I think we really need to reaffirm now that no amount of homophobia can be acceptable in our culture. There is no such this as harmless or victimless homophobia. All homophobia contributes to violence against us. You can not “disagree” with lgbt people’s “lifestyles” without supporting the rhetoric and legislation that puts us in very real danger.
Homophobia isn’t that black and white though. You can hate the sin and still love the sinner.
OK, as a queer person who grew up in a genuinely loving, caring, utterly wonderful, and still deeply homophobic Church, let me try to fill in what you’re not understanding about this whole “Love the sinner” deal.
When we refer to people like you as “Homophobic” I want to be clear what we’re saying here. This is not a judgment of your intent. We are not describing you as a hateful person, as an aggressive or violent person. But we are saying that your actions and your attitudes participate in and reinforce a system of rhetoric that encourages violence against LGBT people, and, far, far more importantly, that forces millions of LGBT people to live in shame.
That’s really what this comes down to. Not hate. Not violence. Shame.
Consider the point purely theologically. Jesus tells us that to desire a sinful thing is as bad as to act on that desire. My lusting after another mans wife is as bad as actually sleeping with her. My genuine desire to hurt someone is as bad as actually hurting them.
So when you tell me that loving another man is a sin, you’re not just talking about physical acts of intimacy. You don’t get to draw the line there. You don’t get to pretend that I can be bisexual so long as I never actually physically act on it (which is already a terrible burden to place on someone). You’re saying that every time I look at a guy and imagine how soft his lips would be, or think about how beautiful his eyes are, I am sinning. I am a sinner every time a dude walks past me with a tight sweater on that shows of his arms. Every time he has nice hair or a nice smile.
My love, according to you, is a sin. That is the burden you are forcing people to live under. That burden forced me so deep into the closet that I didn’t even know I was there. It forced me to repress every genuine feeling of sexual attraction for other men, and to live for years with those feelings straining to get out, whilst I struggled with the constant guilt and shame that came from having those thoughts.
And I am one of the lucky ones, because I’m alive to have this conversation. Because for many, many LGBT people that guilt and shame manifests as self-harm, substance abuse, low esteem that leads them into abusive relationships, and very often suicide.
You tell yourself that you’re one of the good ones because you don’t hate us. You only hate what we “do”. But what we “do” is living. It’s being alive and whole and a part of this world, and if you genuinely believe that we can’t have that then you might as well put the gun to our heads and pull the trigger. Because you’re already doing that, you just don’t have the guts to admit it.
“You only hate what we do, but what we do is living” Wow. This is beautiful and so well written
I want bigots to feel unsafe expressing their bigoted views. I want people to feel like their social circle and family will judge them, I want them to feel like they might lose their job and face financial ruin.
I want the world to be very unsafe and unwelcoming to those who’s “views” undermine the safety and existence of other people.
So don’t tell me not to fight fire with fire, I WANT to burn this shit down. I want to have so much pre-emptive and reactionary hatred for bigots that they feel unsafe, that they taste just a little of what their hatred brings to the lives of others.
I don’t want to Mother Theresa people, I don’t want to hold hands, sing kumbaya and guide people see my viewpoint. I want to create a world where their bigoted viewpoints are seen as inherently disgusting and these kinds of people are pushed to the fringe of society and we all view them with scorn.
I don’t need to change, people don’t need to change who they fundamentally are to fit into the world of a bigot and we don’t need to earth mother this bullshit and lead them there on a cloud of endless patience and internalised screaming.
So I’ll fight hate with hate, fire with fire, I’ll hate every bigot with passion and set fire to the very institutions that shelter them and take pleasure in salting the goddamn Earth with their tears.
man say what you want about “tumblr culture” or whathaveyou but i’d honestly rather spend a full week chaperoning a dozen 14-year-olds high on half-baked discourse than be forced to have an hour-long conversation with someone who deliberately labels themselves as an “anti-sjw”
Probably one of the worst falsehoods accepted as truth is the idea that bullies pick on others because they have their own problems or are suffering somehow, when in fact, it’s a matter of people with privilege and power simply exerting their power in a cruel and vicious way. Sometimes bullies can have their own issues too but if you really examine the bullies vs. the victims, you’ll find it’s always the victims who have a worse lot in life and they’re targeted for it, whether it’s for their class, race, appearance, sexuality, etc.
In that same vein, the old “homophobes act that way because they are secretly gay!” thing needs to die too. Can we not blame gay people for their own oppression?
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