“If you want equality, then you have to…”
Alright stop right there. Take a look at the first part of that sentence.
You’re telling folks that their equality, their status as a fully formed human being, is something they have to earn, something you have to approve of, something they are not automatically entitled to.
I don’t care who you are, who you’re talking to, or what the second half of that sentence is. You’re wrong.
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on a scale of one to 10 how awkward is it when white people say “I wish i could have lived in the 50s/60s!!”
especially when you’re the only POC in the room and everyone starts babbling about “the good old days” and all the cool fashions and social etiquette’s and you’re just like “……………………….”
- first day of school: 30 pencils, 64 crayons, 20 pens, 12 rulers, 10 notebooks.
- end of school year: 1 pencil you found in the hallway.
Sick and Tired by Shihan.
agreed.
Does that put it into perspective for you?
Seriously. I always have to try to put this into perspective for people. People act like slavery was so distant. My mom is older in relation to my age (she had me at 43), and her father was older when she was born (in his early 50’s) and was born in the late 1800’s. One of his PARENTS was born into slavery. For people like my mom, this isn’t the least bit distant. My mom grew up in the Jim Crow south. History is so depersonalized that people can act like slavery, Jim Crow, and blatantly racist institutions existed in 1800 BC
I have an aunt who died in 02 who was born in 1898.
I’d LOVE for someone to have told her that slavery was “long ago”.
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hahahaha what the hell
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LOL so I’m hanging out with a friend this afternoon and one of his mates is an arsehole vegan. I bought a bottle of chocolate milk and she was glaring at it as though it had done her some grievous personal wrong. So I was like ‘are you alright there?’ And she was like ‘I thought you were a feminist.’ I was clueless as to what she was on about. ‘Milk is the product of cow rape,’ she continued. ‘When you buy it, you’re condoning sexual assault.’ So I just looked at her for like five minutes, made myself a tall glass of chocolate milk and went to tell everyone on this planet I know about this.
i honestly cannot believe animal activists think that the abuse and mistreatment animals suffer at the hands of the food industry is anywhere in line with the culture of sexual assault, rape, and misogyny that society has.
it’s like when queer activists compare the struggles of LGBT people to people of color
just
no
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