#and that's on white privelige

[backonefish]

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#I have delved back into the 1d fandom for today to watch the massive criticism of solo harry #And the only reason im commenting on this is bc ppl didnt understand why i didnt want to see him in concert #And this is legit why #You cant preach openness and kindness and being woke #When you say things like being gay *used to be illegal* #And deride all gay portrayals in movies #You cant pretend to something youre not bc ultimately the truth will always come out #Which is #Harry styles is a white man who is extremely priveliged #And hangs out w other white men #And laughs at misogynistic jokes #And publically does not have a mind of his own

[dragynkeep]

Something I just thought of after my Reblog, regarding the Adam short - he didn't just save the life of the White Fang's leader. You mentioned how rich it was for Blake to admonish Adam, the branded slave, while almost literally being am priveliged princess.

HE SAVED THE LIFE OF A FUCKING WORLD LEADER, WHO WAS UNDER ATTACK BY MULTIPLE ASSASSINS, WHILE ONLY TAKING THE LIFE OF SOMEONE HE HAD NO TIME TO STOP NON-LETHALLY

Adam was INCREDIBLY restrained under the circumstances

yeah like, considering who ghira is supposed to represent both on the world stage in remnant & to both menagerie / the white fang: it's insane that he was even on the front lines anyways completely unprotected. he got shot once & his aura evaporated so he'd clearly been at the brink of exhaustion anyways, or just had a really weak aura to begin with but.

either way, if he'd been killed you can bet the fans would've been like "see! adam didn't do anything because he wanted ghira to die! so he could have blake all to himself & groom him earlier because we believe the words of a bigoted, abusive va!" like. he couldn't win lmao.

#leonhaxor #rwby #rwde #adam taurus #ghira belladonna #ais.txt #answered #q

[artisan-dino-nuggets]

reminder that stanzi (yes, funny tiktok stanzi) keeps posting about how ukrainians need to be quiet and stop fishing for attention???? and she flat out said that we should care more about palestine. ma'am i don't think that as a priveliged white american who has never personally been through genocide or war, you don't get to say what's more important to care about. keep talking about both. anyways, free palestine and slava ukraini!

#i keep seeing insane takes from people i thought were cool #screw you if you think it's ok to compare ethnic cleansing. wtf is your problem go read a history book please #slava ukraini #free palestine

[symptoms-syndrome]

I am a white passing (mostly I think?) System , only an 8th Japanese n 4th Mexican, n have started to notice over time I have alters who are completely white.. I get people who if I say I'm white, scoff and disagree; especially white friends, but including my other filipino and Asian friends in the past. but there are also people who would agree that I am just white.

Only as I'm older, and have spent more time with the Japanese part of my family, I realize that I feel very bad when I engage openly with parts of my heritage that are on the Japanese or Mexican side because I was raised by a very white (and racist) step-parent, I feel like it is me appropriating it. People have made racially insensitive comments to me about my art saying it makes sense that we can draw what we draw because of being part Japanese, and also about my appearance and food habits.

Overall, I don't know how to integrate these experiences, as I realize parts of us often feel as if we are 100% white and I'm too priveliged to complain about it, but I also am painfully aware that we are not even perceived this way by many people outside of us. Some alters have used Japanese and Spanish names when we were younger/still have those names, some even given to us by family, which often make me feel very embarrassed to talk about publicly.

How can you best tell if something you are doing is true to yourself, or if it is harming other people? Your post about race within systems made me think about it more, and I don't often talk about it with anyone because it makes me feel bad about myself. So it is interesting to see the discussion around it. Thank you for reading.

Sry I'm not at the top of my game today (I've been moving shit around + doing a lot of heavy labor for like three days aaa) but I wanted to answer this before I like. Forget.

I think there's a misconception that having privilege and being disprivileged are mutually exclusive categories. As in, people think you're either "privileged" or "oppressed." This isn't really true! That's part of what intersectionality is all about. You can hold the privilege of being white passing/light skinned/etc while also facing oppression based on your race/ethnicity/culture. Kind of like how someone can be oppressed for being disabled while also holding privilege for being white.

For example, I am someone who is visibly Asian but grew up primarily in white culture. I face racism most often on the basis of my visible race, as in the physical features I have; like my monolid eyes and tan skin. One of my friends is half Black, and was raised very much in Black culture by their dad, but is much lighter skinned than me. She may not face racism based on the way she looks as often, but she still faces racism on the basis of her cultural background, like the food she eats or the way she speaks.

To try and say one of us is more or less oppressed than the other is kinda silly. It's apples to oranges. Both of us face oppression based in racism, and that's what we should both be focusing on! She can complain about her oppression and I can complain about mine and neither diminishes the other. We can hold that our experiences are different while acknowledging they have the same cause (a deviation from whiteness.)

Think of oppression less like a linear spectrum and more like boxes we all have to carry. Some people may have lots of little things in their box, some people may have one or two big things, but ultimately what's in the box doesn't matter, the box is heavy regardless of what exactly is inside it. And saying my box is heavier than someone else's doesn't make theirs any lighter.

As for what makes something "true to yourself," that's hard to say from an outside perspective. It sounds to me from your ask like you have some strong cultural connections in your family, and I encourage you to embrace them! There's nothing wrong with learning about cultures regardless of how much you personally connect with them. I am not often perceived as German, but I have very strong cultural connections to German culture. Obvi that's a little different, but my point is the same: don't worry about what other people will think. Your relationship to your own identity is yours to decide. As long as you're not holding your cultural connections over anyone's head, they're your business! And it seems like your intentions are good, which I know isn't always the end-all be-all but that means it's fine to make mistakes. As long as you are honest and upfront, I believe you'll be fine!

I also want to mention that the idea of "white passing," much like many other types of passing, isn't really a black and white situation either! I thought I was remarkably white passing a lot of my life as well, but now I know I'm definitely not. My friend I mentioned before has often passed for white, but a lot of her Black peers say that they can definitely tell she's half Black. There are also, for a large variety of reasons, people who's cultural background and identity don't match up with their ethnicity, and that's fine too.

I guess the TLDR here is that I would try and avoid thinking of exploring your own identity as something you can "mess up." Identity is really complex and something many people of color wrestle with our whole lives. You're not wrong for finding it hard to grapple with. Just remember that sometimes things that seem mutually exclusive actually aren't, and it's possible to hold many seemingly contradictory parts (no pun intended) at the same time.

Wishing you love on your personal journey 💕

#race and DID #asks #also re:parts feeling white. i have a post somewhere abt that. its rly hard!!! its rly complex!!!

[malbecmusings]

Your entitled white privelige is showing.

I know it takes me a while to answer these cuz, life. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Also I'm a little a lot bourbon soaked at the moment so, huh?

[death-rebirth-senshi]

I saw some comment on Twitter that was like you can't shit talk she-hulk because Superman v Batman had that don't give me piss and call it. Peach Tea? I think? But anyway

1) how fucking long ago did batman v Superman come out

2) Everyone hated Batman v Superman like maybe you kids don't remember but we all fucking hated it and called it dumb

3) That joke was one of the few things about Batman v Superman that was funny and absolutely owned. It was not a serious dramatic moment it was a joke and it was a good joke

4) I don't care if Megan Thee Stallion was on She-Hulk I'm not watching that shit I'm black and black privelige means I'm more correct than you on this

5) Everyone talking about She-Hulk twerking with Meghan was rightfully calling it cringe but also most people were talking about how like her hair wasn't moving right and shit.

6) A show getting meta about how it's a shit show doesn't magically make it good and it doesn't magically make the other shows suddenly good and it doesn't mean I have to magically forgive Disney and go watch the show because WOMAN!!! BLACK WOMAN!!! And for the love of God would you idiots find something else to do with your time besides try to convince me that in order to be a politically good person I have to watch [show] or [movie] and if I don't like or make fun of [show] or [movie] I must be an evil anti-sjw white man redditor or whatever the fuck

[improbus-ille-saevus]

save meeeee I said save me emo french canadian priveliged white girl. you can save meEeEee😫

[thebreakfastgenie]

Anon assumptions — you grew up priveliged

Mixed bag! I certainly had a lot of privileges, like being white and middle class, but we didn't have a lot of money when I was young, and I also grew up as one of the only Jews/non-Christians period in a heavily Evangelical, right wing area. I was also a lesbian though of course I didn't figure that out until later, it still mattered. My dad was a public school teacher and he was the only one supporting the family when I was really young and for five years before that because my mom started staying home when my older sibling was born, and my mom only worked part-time for quite a few years.

I actually think a lot of my tendencies on here stem from being a cultural, religious, and political minority for my entire childhood. Most of my earliest argument were with right wing Christians who thought I was going to hell for numerous reasons.

#by one of the only jews i mean i knew of one other one in town and he was a jew for jesus married to a christian

[squidificati0n]

#tiktok #hijab #feminism #white privelige

[dungeonqueering]

Reverse Racism Isn't Real, sorry

#as a white person white people can go fuck themselves #and that includes me I am not exempt from white privelige

[valianse]

i love that they’ve added gadgets to jaune’s repertoire because not only does that validate and help with my b/otw link allusion, but also backs up my �� jaune as a hacker / electronically sound ” hc from way back when. he tinkers now, where that interest had once stemmed from modding video games and fixing the family tractor, it developed into faking his electronic transcripts, and eventually he’ll be able to design his own gadgets.

#hc. #i reckon jaune would like batman #even though one of bruce's powers is white privelige

[daenerys-targaryen-moved]

how do you explain white privilege to someone who when they hear that term immediately think that ‘white privilege’ means they’ve never suffered and argues that the black man was able to vote before the white woman and the black man was able to become president before the white woman I literally tried reading her articles and watching videos and then she said that black people sold other black people and I said that by saying that it erases the fact that white people sold and bought black people purely because of their race legit every single thing I say triggers her so much that we end up yelling at each other

#i had an episode because of her #panic attack hurting myself because i’m just so frusterated #she won’t listen to reason #she thinks i’ve been brainwashed #she was like #‘dont ever let them (key word here) convince you that you have it better just because you’re white’ #no one has to tell me anything just look at the stats #i’m sorry for venting #she got so triggered when i said that i have privelige because i’m white #she was lile oh youve never starved?? black people are given more opputunities because theyre a minority! #???? #this is good bec we’re talking about it #but i’m just #i didn’t think it was this bad ??? #i had no idea she beleieved this #i’m just astounded #like i don’t even know her #aruellia.txt #politics #racism tw

[buunbi-archive]

Reminder to my fellow Australians that the pigs here aren’t all that much better than in the USA. An unfairly high percentage of the prison population is black Aboriginal Australians compared to the small amount of the overall population that they make up.

This isn’t an American issue, it’s a global one.

#crow.txt #even ive fallen into the mindset of ‘oh at least thats not happening here’ a couple times #but i think now more than ever we need to stop ignoring how unfairly our government treats black australians #yes there are benefits in place such as free education up to a certain level #but that does not make up for police brutality and other forms of discrimination #specified black there because a lot of aboriginal people i know #including myself #are white/white passing #so we have white privelige #and arent disproportianately effected by this kinda stuff #how did i spell privilege wring but get disproportionately right hello

[drivemysoul]

god i checked dani’s blog when i woke up and now i want to scream

#taylor.txt #?????? #reverse racism isnt real eveey sibgle white person has white privelege (i need spellcheck sksnd) and lana’s letter was terribly worded #‘but some white people arent privileged (i cant spell pls help)’ okay look... we are #yes we can be struggling in other aspects but if you are white you are automatically given white privelige (i need spellcheck ffs) #it doesnt mean that you cant be opressed or struggling or w/e in other areas of your life but NONE of it is because youre white #please just. educate yourself. listen to what poc are saying. and stop claiming reverse racism it LITERALLY ISNT REAL #anyway this was a rant and idk where im going with this but hi

[gandalf-theslay]

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#to clearn things up: i look pale. but im not white. im not white. #i get that in the us you only care about race or a person only if it coincides with your schema of what a person from that race looks like #i get that if you burn in the son youre white and can not be anything else #i get that me being born with pale skin grants me with certain priveliges #but seriously #im not white #my skintone lies #ffs even people in my ‘’culture’’ (native americans) will call me white and wont recognize me #i say ‘’culture’’ becuase i know there are multiple nations with each having its own culture #in my tribe of the nation (its a long story as to why there are many tribes in one nation but the basic explanation is white people #the majority of us are white #pale as fuck even #but that doesnt make us white and that doesnt make us invalid as indigenous people #also no i will not tell you the name of the nation because i do not want to make t easy for you to find where i am or locate my family #hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i hate living here in the us #personal