#check your privilege

[screamingfromuz]

So today I was reminded that a Jewish person is not allowed to define Jewish experiences and ideologies and must accept the definitions of other as superior, and that our opinions about our experience are less impotent then the opinions of Goyims on our experiences.

also that people really think that being a second class citizen is what is considered as the most equal existence that Jews can aspire to.

Check your biases

#I dare goyims to reblog it #without explaining how it is “not all goyim” #antisemitism #or explaining how you are not like that #check your privilege #zionism #anti zionisim #bias #biases #privilege #judenhass #jew hatred #leftism #deconstruction

[mansorus]

Your access is a privilege move like it

#art #generationalwealth #mansorus #mental health awareness #philly #chief keef #check your privilege #access

[sugas6thtooth]

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #israel #pray for palestine #ceasefire #america #usa #winter #disease #holiday #innocent children #children #check your privilege #holiday season #cold weather #displaced #ethnic cleansing #genocide

[violottie]

"WHITE PRIVILEGE FOR DUMMIES" spoken word by Kyla Jenée Lacey, video by African Stream, 25/Apr/2024: caption under reel

Some people actually still think that White privilege is a myth - created by ‘angry’ people of colour as a tool to bash Whites.

They believe, for example, that poverty rates are higher among Africans because they make the racist assumption that we are somehow lazy. Never do they entertain the possibility that we are, in fact, hindered every step of the way by systemic political and economic oppression rooted in slavery, colonialism and neo-colonalism.

In this clip, spoken-word artist Kyla Jenée Lacey breaks down the concept of White privilege for those who still do not get it or believe in its existence.

#white privilege #white surpemacy #colonialism #racism #anti blackness #misogynoir #neocolonialism #educate yourself #check your privilege #important

[crazycatsiren]

Some of y'all were the white middle class children who got coddled and cosseted at school and at home and were allowed to have and get away with everything you wanted because oh poor little autistic you and it fucking shows.

I've seen entitled autistic brat children grow up into entitled autistic asshole adults. Fuck off my lawn.

#actually autistic #check your privilege #autism community #white privilege #autistic children #autistic adults #white people's children #kids these days

[daniel-nerd]

I said someone was a fascist in a gc and they all started yelling at me??

saying that I can’t call people fascists?? and that i need to say “support fascism” or something??

like, how is that bringing anything to the conversation?

they’re also the type of people who say “check your privilege” to anyone who say anything.

so called “leftists” when people use language???

#they kicked me out after like 3 hours #i very quickly figured the conversation is twitter level of discourse #so i started trolling and saying stuff i knew will make them angry #also they said its a privilege to not join the army because of my disability??? #anyway here’s the tags #:3 #196 #egg irl #traaa #rule #ruleposting #:3 hehe #r/196 #leftist #leftism #discourse #check your privilege

[lowwasteorbustanut]

That France mandatory food waste program got me thinking.

I have a friend who lives in (Large City), Kansas, USA who doesn’t recycle.

Not because she doesn’t care, or just wants to watch the world burn.

It’s because there IS NO curbside recycling program.

The only way households can recycle is if an entire city block agrees to purchase a blue dumpster, and then pay a weekly (exorbitant) fee to have a special truck come and haul their recycling to a separate facility.

That is horrifying! My friend was shocked when she and her SO moved out there, since they both grew up in Seattle area as well.

Of course no business/household can afford something like that, let alone get an entire city block to agree to fund a bin. So there is no recycling.

Again, it’s things like these ppl in the environmental movement need to remember.

Those ppl in Kansas aren’t choosing not to recycle because they’re malicious. It’s because there is no government program to help them. Even if they needed the funds up front, a solution could be to offer rebates to homes that recycle. That would help offset the cost, and would make recycling more appealing.

People like myself, who have ways to make their daily life low waste, are privileged.

What about people who HAVE to drink bottled water? What about people with allergies who CAN’T buy from bulk bins? What about people who NEED life saving drugs/medical devices? (I am one of those ppl, but I still consider myself low waste because how the drugs are packaged are out of my control)

These things are NO ONE’S fault. Never blame or judge anyone who has needs that do not have a low waste option!

Remember to check your privilege before trying to tell someone how to live their life.

[And this post isn’t even touching on how low income folks often can’t afford anything except prepackaged/fast food. Because I have no illusions that not everyone 1)has the time to go to a specialty store to buy in bulk, or 2)has the energy to meal prep or make everything from scratch. Some folks have multiple jobs, or families. So they need cheap food in large quantities. And sure, making stuff at home is cheaper per serving, but costs more in time and energy. I will NEVER think less of someone who can’t cook the way I can. And I will shame the hell out of anyone who tries to pass judgement on how others live*]

*this doesn’t include billionaires or private plane having dickheads who are adding to the climate crisis. I’m talking about the normal, everyday people who individually cannot make any changes that’ll impact climate change in a positive way. This is why we need legislation.

#remember to treat folks with kindness #and a bit of grace #low waste #disability #zero waste #climate action #climate change #check your privilege

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Melissa Chen: I Came to America for Freedom, but Now It’s Looking More Like the Country I Left

I grew up in Singapore, where I felt first-hand what it was like to live in a society where free speech is restricted. Social harmony is prioritized over civil liberties in Singapore's multi-cultural society, fomenting a culture of fear and self-censorship on top of legal prohibitions.

I moved to America for college when I was 17. I wanted a challenging education and a social milieu that valued the free exchange of ideas because I knew that was the only way to grow intellectually and cultivate emotional resiliency. It wasn’t until I was in graduate school that I realized that the America I had sought was increasingly resembling the conditions in which I grew up in in Singapore.

Across town from me in Boston, Harvard University had disinvited a record number of speakers, for reasons including their views on topics like immigration, Israel, and sexual orientation. Harvard’s guidelines banned “behavior evidently intended to dishonor such characteristics as race, gender, ethnic group, religious belief, or sexual orientation.” This guideline was nearly identical to what was law in Singapore.

But even worse than that, an intolerant ideology that promoted collective guilt and racial essentialism had begun to emerge. I noticed my white and male classmates were not being allowed to express opinions that addressed issues related to people of color or women. Phrases like “check your privilege” became a part of everyday conversation. This was something that I never witnessed in Singapore, a nation that was prosperous despite its faults because of its focus on the equality of all people.

After university, I co-founded an organization named Ideas Beyond Borders, where we translated and digitied texts about Enlightenment ideas into Arabic for free. We worked with translators who lived in places like Libya, Syria, Egypt, Iran and Iraq. My exposure to so many failed states led me to see the common denominators that undergirded societal dysfunction and civil conflict; many of these places were severely dogged by extremism, intolerance, and sectarianism.

Even more than my life in Singapore, this provided me with an intense appreciation for the freedoms we have here in America. Why were the students around me so focused on the problems with my white male classmates and teachers, while they largely ignored the injustices I was witnessing around the world?

And since I’ve graduated, it seems like these trends have spread through our nation far beyond the reaches of academia. While so many were focused on American culture wars, including for example asking Disney to fire Gina Carano for supposedly offensive tweets, few were paying attention while Disney made deals to film with the government in Xinjiang, China, where Uighur Muslims were being held in concentration camps. 

This way of looking at the world has a goal of raising awareness of racial injustice. That’s laudable. But within this conception of the world there is also a simplistic and reductive understanding of power dynamics in which oppression must always come from people seen as  white, male, western, heterosexual, cisgender, or ablebodied – and be inflicted upon those seen as marginalized – people of color, colonized or indigenous people, women, LGBT, or the disabled. 

This lens ignores the struggle against real repression globally, including what I have witnessed in Singapore and the Middle East. In doing so, it empowers illiberal, authoritarian forces, from China, to Russia, to the stirrings of Islamist groups eager to rebuild their caliphate.

All around the world, from pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong to feminists in Egypt, countless people seek the freedoms that we in the West take for granted. Meanwhile, we are undoing the ideas that have made the modern West the most progressive place on the planet, while shielding the world’s most brazen abusers of human rights from criticism.

If you care about justice for oppressed people, it’s incumbent on us to push back against bad ideas. America has problems, and we need to improve, but the center of the struggle for human dignity isn’t here. Please, let’s keep America the country I wanted to come to.

I’m Melissa Chen. Join me in defending pro-human values at FairForAll.org.

#Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism #FAIR for All #Melissa Chen #Singapore #authoritarianism #first world privilege #imaginary oppression #freedom of speech #free speech #check your privilege #cult of woke #wokeism #wokeness as religion #woke #woke activism #power dynamics #religion is a mental illness #Youtube

[cheezewhis]

I mentioned in class that I gave $5 to a homeless person and this girl started laughing saying that she never does that "cause who knows if any of then are really homeless" and then started complaining about a guy who clearly needs mental help and how she hates him because he's always yelling. Like he never harms anyone and obviously needs help give him a break. And the she mentions another guy who says he lives in a van and goes "he's been panhandling for so long there's no way he still lives in a van." As if fucking change on the street is going to get you a fucking house?!

Just how the fuck do you look at the world like that? She knows fuck all about these people but has the balls to say they're faking homelessness?!

#fuck that #homeless #eat the rich #check your privilege

[beanneversean]

Personally, I didn't like it.

#bobba tea #mozarella #prejudice #check your privilege

[firemedicdiaz]

Someone come fetch me when this obsession with Taylor Swift’s new album is over and I can stop seeing the hero-worship and her lyrics plastered across every gifset.

The blatant fatphobia and oversimplification/misrepresentation of eating disorders in the Anti-Hero music video is actively harming and will continue to harm millions and those of y’all acting like she can do no wrong need to do better.

#tw eating disorder #fatphobia #taylor swift #if you're offended by this #then you're probably guilty #check your privilege #unlearn the internalized fatphobia

[sir-klauz]

the white cishets coming back with intelligent information like: “but I know queer people who say they don’t experience hate that bad though” when responding to a queer friend who’s speaking up about experiencing discriminatory hate and assault, or “people should speak up about discrimination or they’re perpetuating it” in response to someone speaking up about discrimination, or “1 black friend said I could say the n word so I will call you it” etc.

#sarcasm #the cishets are at it again #the straights are at it again #white privilege #the straights are not okay #straight privilege #cis privilege #straight people #homophobia #ignorance #transphobia #racism #check your privilege #privilege #lgbt rights #lgbtqia #lgbt #black lives are human lives #black lives matter #BLM #racial slurs #racial equality

[twinkdrama]

like i get it you were stripped from the privilege of feeling superior but stop crying about that gifted child shit nobody cares

#do you hear yourself #check your privilege #gifted child #problem child #cluster b #mine

[winterf4iryy]

“gotham vibes” “dystopian morning routine” “welcome to mars😷🪐🔥🌆” SHUT THE FUCK UP

#first of all that’s SATURN #and also people are being evacuated from their homes #fire fighters are risking their lives right now #indigenous communities in canada are in danger #and you’re making this some cute quirky event that’s soooo cool #omg it’s like a dystopia!!! 😍 #IT IS A DYSTOPIA just not in the way you’re thinking of #check your privilege #how are people SO tone deaf 😭

[crazycatsiren]

You know, at this point, I don't even give a shit anymore that some of y'all are whining and bitching on social media accusing random people of not calling your disabilities "real" disabilities because not everything in this world fucking revolves around you.

Some of us out here got real problems to deal with every single fucking day, and y'all are behaving like a bunch of god damn toddlers who aren't allowed to eat candy bars for dinner.

Get a fucking grip.

#disability pride month #cripple punk #check your privilege #disabled community #actually disabled #some people's children these days

[womans-armor-workshop]

Pride flag as all other lgbtq+ attributes are illegal in my country, you know that? I'm envy you, a gorgeous creature, who can wear this corset proudly and freely. I just hope I could do that one day..

#seamstress daily #corset #corsetmaking #corsetry #handmade #lgbtqiia+ #lgbt representation #lgbt pride #lgbt flag #lgbt problems #check your privilege