Iceskating (by somethingdutch)
secretivemarriedcpl asked:
Do white lives matter ?
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yoisthisracist answered:
I guess the fact that white people aren’t systematically terrorized by the police, and also that literally every single part of society is set up to reinforce the idea that white people’s lives, comfort and continued prosperity are of primary importance means that the idea of white lives mattering goes without saying, and that anyone bothering to ask this is either a fucking idiot or a fucking idiot AND a racist trying to denigrate the idea that we should be reminded that victimized minorities have a right to remind people of their basic humanity.
PS. Seriously, fuck off.
I confront [white guilt] every year, about a month into my course on racism, among [white] students who come to me in tears because they cannot deal with the racism that goes on in their families or their home towns or their student residences. Their tears are the result of genuine anguish, care, and a desire to learn and to change. I confront similar attitudes among my colleagues, and I am similarly gratified by their concern. But those who experience white guilt need to learn three things:
1. People of colour are generally not moved by their tears, and may even see those tears as a self-indulgent expression of white privilege. It is after all a great privilege to be able to express one’s emotion openly and to be confident that one is in a cultural context where one’s feelings will be understood.
2. Guilt is paralysing. It serves no purposes; it does no good. It is not a substitute for activism.
3. White guilt is often patronizing if it leads to pity for those of colour. Pity gets in the way of sincere and meaningful human relationships, and it forestalls the frankness that meaningful relationships demand. White guilt will not change the racialized environment; it will only make the guilty feel better.
Audrey Kobayashi, Women of Colour in Canadian Academia (via 4a0000)
Trumpism is poison. White terror feeds off Trump.
White, male, conservative extremism is much more dangerous than those seven Muslim countries combined.
The Quebec Mosque Shooter was a Muslim, actually
Actually, he wasn’t.
Shooters*
And they* were. One of them even shouted “Allahu Ackbar”
Just because the person screams “Allahu Ackbar” doesn’t mean they are Muslim. For all we known, this white supremacist trash of a shooter is saying it to mock his victims.
There’s only been one and he’s been identified. Alexandre Bissonnette.
Any that say two and that they were Muslim are lying at this point.
Muslims frequently kill other Muslims because they are considered hypocrites for not fighting the infidels (non-Muslims).
There’s 99% odds that he was a Muslim, as that is always what they shout before attacking and during the attack.
Pretty sure they used the birth name instead of the name he changed it to, though that might’ve been some other shooter.
Yeah, no they’re not a Muslim. Alexandre Bissonnette is not a Muslim. Alexandre Bissonnette is a white French Canadian who is, by all appearances, a rabid anti-immigrant nationalist. A leader of a local immigration rights groups, François Deschamps, told a local paper he recognized his photo as an anti-immigrant far-right “troll” who has been hostile to the group online. And Bisonnette’s Facebook page – now taken down but still archived – lists among its “likes” the far right French nationalist Marine Le Pen, Islam critics Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the Israeli Defense Forces, and Donald J. Drumpf (he also “likes” the liberal Canadian Party NDP along with more neutral “likes” such as Tom Hanks, the Sopranos and Katy Perry).
At this point, he’s been declared the only shooter. The only one.
You know the more you insist it was Muslims is disheartening.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38805163
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/world/canada/quebec-mosque-shooting.html
Even the site you used knows it: http://heavy.com/news/2017/01/alexandre-bissonnette-quebec-city-canada-mosque-shooting-attack-suspect-gunman-shooter-photos-pictures-video-motive/
At this point, still stands. White supremacist Alexandre Bissonnette is the one. Not a Muslim.
Has Blake here never met an 3edgy5me white boy before? Absolutely everything is pointing towards Bissonnette being a right wing Trump loving white supremacist Islamophobic piece of shit. Him yelling “Allahu Ackbar” means absolutely nothing when everything indicates that he hated Muslims, hence why he went in and gunned down a mosque full of people praying.
Also, there was one shooter. The Moroccan man, Mohamed Belkhadir, was a witness who called 9-1-1 and was arrested because he ran from the police when they arrived because he saw a gun and thought they might be other shooters. He had nothing to do with the attack, he was trying to help the wounded. All potential charges against him have been dropped, but @blake747b would know that if they stopped hating Muslims for a second and used Google.
-V
can white women just ADMIT that all the lead female representation in media lately has been white? woc aren’t saying that the representation is useless or bad, we’re obviously excited to see star wars and mad max too. but it’s not that hard to recognize that there’s also a major gap waiting to be filled, and until it is, the future is still not female, sorry
“First Black girl to attend an all white school in the US—Dorothy Counts—being jeered and taunted by her white peers.” via African Archives
white and gray of geese swelling
the swarm of sunshine, the sea,
steering over the water-widths
the blue pastures, the waves’
white foam, the hissing heart of
their crest
pine stands vigil, great dark
sentinel of time
twisting in the ether
she gathers the horse to her,
his hooves hardly wet in his swiftness
huntress rises from dawn arrow
springing after arrow from the bow as
permanent as its constellation
so she stands without fear,
blinded and bewitched by the center of
her own fortune
huntress, sleek, well-fed
she walliows, has her bounty,
wants more
geese slip with the last of the day-wind
aslant, no more
this: the last song
“What is doable and what is morally correct are not always the same things.”
“Here is the great challenge of liberal policy in America: We now know that for every dollar of wealth white families have, black families have a nickel. We know that being middle class does not immunize black families from exploitation in the way that it immunizes white families. We know that black families making $100,000 a year tend to live in the same kind of neighborhoods as white families making $30,000 a year. We know that in a city like Chicago, the wealthiest black neighborhood has an incarceration rate many times worse than the poorest white neighborhood. This is not a class divide, but a racist divide. Mainstream liberal policy proposes to address this divide without actually targeting it, to solve a problem through category error. That a mainstream Democrat like Hillary Clinton embraces mainstream liberal policy is unsurprising. Clinton has no interest in expanding the Overton window. She simply hopes to slide through it.
But I thought #FeelTheBern meant something more than this. I thought that Bernie Sanders, the candidate of single-payer health insurance, of the dissolution of big banks, of free higher education, was interested both in being elected and in advancing the debate beyond his own candidacy. I thought the importance of Sanders’s call for free tuition at public universities lay not just in telling citizens that which is actually workable, but in showing them that which we must struggle to make workable. I thought Sanders’s campaign might remind Americans that what is imminently doable and what is morally correct are not always the same things, and while actualizing the former we can’t lose sight of the latter.
A Democratic candidate who offers class-based remedies to address racist plunder because that is what is imminently doable, because all we have are bandages, is doing the best he can. A Democratic candidate who claims that such remedies are sufficient, who makes a virtue of bandaging, has forgotten the world that should, and must, be. Effectively he answers the trenchant problem of white supremacy by claiming “something something socialism, and then a miracle occurs.”
No. Fifteen years ago we watched a candidate elevate class above all. And now we see that same candidate invoking class to deliver another blow to affirmative action. And that is only the latest instance of populism failing black people.
The Left, above all, should know better than this. When Sanders dismisses reparations because they are “divisive” he puts himself in poor company. “Divisive” is how Joe Lieberman swatted away his interlocutors. “Divisive” is how the media dismissed the public option. “Divisive” is what Hillary Clinton is calling Sanders’s single-player platform right now.
So “divisive” was Abraham Lincoln’s embrace of abolition that it got him shot in the head. So “divisive” was Lyndon Johnson’s embrace of civil rights that it fractured the Democratic Party. So “divisive” was Ulysses S. Grant’s defense of black civil rights and war upon the Klan, that American historians spent the better part of a century destroying his reputation. So “divisive” was Martin Luther King Jr. that his own government bugged him, harassed him, and demonized him until he was dead. And now, in our time, politicians tout their proximity to that same King, and dismiss the completion of his work—the full pursuit of equality—as “divisive.” The point is not that reparations is not divisive. The point is that anti-racism is always divisive. A left radicalism that makes Clintonism its standard for anti-racism—fully knowing it could never do such a thing in the realm of labor, for instance—has embraced evasion.
This, too, leaves us in poor company. “Hillary Clinton is against reparations, too” does not differ from, “What about black on black crime?” That Clinton doesn’t support reparations is an actual problem, much like high murder rates in black communities are actual problems. But neither of these are actual answers to the questions being asked. It is not wrong to ask about high murder rates in black communities. But when the question is furnished as an answer for police violence, it is evasion. It is not wrong to ask why mainstream Democrats don’t support reparations. But when the question is asked to defend a radical Democrat’s lack of support, it is avoidance.
The need for so many (although not all) of Sanders’s supporters to deflect the question, to speak of Hillary Clinton instead of directly assessing whether Sanders’s position is consistent, intelligent, and moral hints at something terrible and unsaid. The terribleness is this: To destroy white supremacy we must commit ourselves to the promotion of unpopular policy. To commit ourselves solely to the promotion of popular policy means making peace with white supremacy.
But hope still lies in the imagined thing. Liberals have dared to believe in the seemingly impossible—a socialist presiding over the most capitalist nation to ever exist. If the liberal imagination is so grand as to assert this new American reality, why when confronting racism, presumably a mere adjunct of class, should it suddenly come up shaky? Is shy incrementalism really the lesson of this fortuitous outburst of Vermont radicalism? Or is it that constraining the political imagination, too, constrains the possible? If we can be inspired to directly address class in such radical ways, why should we allow our imaginative powers end there?”
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bernie Sanders and the Liberal Imagination
Okay, here’s the problem with the idea that oppressed groups can “alienate allies” by not being nice enough:
You shouldn’t be an ally because oppressed groups are nice to you. You should be an ally because you believe they deserve basic human rights. Hearing “I hate men” shouldn’t make men stop being feminist. Hearing “fuck white people” shouldn’t make white people stop opposing racism.
Your opposition to oppression should be moral, and immovable. Your belief that all humans should be treated with equal respect shouldn’t be conditional based on whether or not individual people are nice to you.