June 2012
#379
thisiswhiteprivilege:
White privilege is never having your peers assume you know all the other white people at your school.
On consensual sex
genuineeee:
With abuse culture as pervasive as it is, it makes sense that there are several accounts of women and people who are victims of sexual violence.
However, even though abuse culture exists 100% good consensual sex is possible. In fact, the notion that there is no such thing as 100 percent good consensual is a flawed, abusive perspective that further perpetuates an environment...
sooooo im writing a story
i need a really white bread name
for a girl
i was thinking sarah…i don’t know any non-white sarahs
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Dear directors/producers:
If you feel the need to put blackface/brownface on a white person for them to fit the role you have given them, maybe consider the fact that you could cast an actual black/brown person in that role.
#323
thisiswhiteprivilege:
White privilege is everyone knowing about Chris Brown assaulting Rihanna but no one knowing about what Sean Penn did to Madonna (tortured her for 9 hours), Charlie Sheen did to his exes (he freaking shot one of them and was arrested for domestic violence before), Nicholas Cage did to his exes (he was arrested for domestic violence), or really any white artists who were also...
Urgent: Close the Romanian 'Death Plant'
golden-zephyr:
golden-zephyr:
A local Romanian mayor has just forcibly evicted over 38 Roma families from their accommodation — and is now forcing them to live in a toxic, decommissioned chemicals factory. Small children are already in hospital after chemical exposure, and the situation is so horrifying a respected Romanian newspaper is comparing this to Auschwitz. But the Romanian Prime...
eastafrodite:
when adults comment on your status but their comment is totally irrelevent to what you said
your status will be like
going to a concert with friends!!!!!111
and said adult will be like
hi jimmy how are you i saw your brother today he’s getting so big tell your mom hi for me xxx -betsy
LOL, this is such a Habesha thing.
“A few years ago, just a few blocks from my home, a pair of researchers in the...”
– Michael Lewis, in his Baccalaureate address at Princeton University (via seriouslyamerica)
clumsyoctopus:
you know movies like avatar where they travel to another planet and colonise it and terrorise the natives
what if there was a movie where a bunch of explorers landed on another planet
but it was more advance and they instantly got dragged to an immigration office and shouted at in a language they didnt understand and made to fill out a bunch of forms for like 6 hours and had...
Lol so let's try some math.
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
withquest:
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
Let’s even use white people’s dictionaries! And you know what? Language is SO imprecise. Let’s use math, shall we? Everyone understands basic math.
Equality
Definition of Equality
Equality is a state in which two things or values are always equal.
More about Equality
In the state of equality, both values on the left and the right...
How racists argue, simplified.
Person 1: That guy with the red hat stole my wallet! Prick!
Person 2: What? I really don't like the implication that the only people who steal wallets are people in red hats and the only person who was ever stolen from is you.
P1: wat
P2: I'm just saying, if you're going to talk about one specific instance of thievery in this world, you need to make sure you acknowledge every instance of thievery that ever happened, or you're just being RIDICULOUS.
P1: ...WAT
electrophilic:
When you see something on your dash and you actually shout NO
#261
thisiswhiteprivilege:
White privilege is getting to learn what the stereotypes about PoC are rather than having to live with them.
