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What makes people think that they can sit at home on their computer, rewrite definitions like “Racism”, and expect the whole world to follow them?
Black people can be racist, women can be sexist, Christians can be discriminated against. They’ve had their own definitions since before you were born, and you sure as hell don’t get to decide what it means.
You sitting on your little IPhone 5, telling us reasons that that isn’t true, isn’t going to change that. You aren’t our authority. Think what you want. Don’t try to force others to.
Women can be sexist.
People of color can be racist.
Christians can face discrimination.
Hating straight people because they’re straight is wrong.
Having barely any safe houses, court advocacy programs, subsidized counseling, or subsidized legal care for male domestic violence victims is an issue. Women don’t get paid as much as men because they don’t work as many hours and take more time off for maternity leave, and more women work part time.White people are not born with automatic privilege because they’re white. Yes they can get away with certain things, but white people do not have magical powers that keep them immune from serious issues. How do you explain white privilege to a poor white person?
Nonbinary genders don’t need to exist because everyone is nonbinary to some extent.
You have to have gender dysphoria to be transgender.
Biological sex is NOT a social construct.
Gender is not whatever you identify as, because if that’s the case, than I can identify as Barack Obama or a chair.
Third Wave Feminism is a dumpster fire.
Black Lives Matter is reckless, it doesn’t seem to have any main goal or direction, and doesn’t actually save any lives or truly help the black community as a whole.People of color, women, LBGT people, and Muslims who think outside of the rhetoric from the Left are not traitors and they all do not have self hatred or internalized whatever.
Hate speech is free speech.
Wanting white people to pay reparations for the slavery of African Americans is ridiculous. MODERN white people are not responsible for slavery.You cannot automatically believe someone who says they were raped and try to get the person they accuse arrested without evidence. False rape accusations CAN RUIN LIVES. Always, always, always, have evidence, and if there is none, I pray those people find justice. But you legally CANNOT arrest ANYONE for ANYTHING without evidence, to do so is considered illegal and goes against the American law and justice system.
Unfortunately rapes happen, but America is not a rape culture. Saudi Arabia is a real rape culture.
If there are no laws stopping you from going to school, getting a job, buying a house, or even walking outside by yourself, or etc. then you are not oppressed.
The Patriarchy is not real.
Physically attaching people who disagree with you is wrong and immoral.
Perfect.
Not all Muslims are terrorists!!1!
But all Catholic Priests are pedophiles, and
all Baptist Preachers are homophobic and sexist. Am I right?
Modern feminists have no problem complaining about how unfair the taxing of tampons and pads are… Where are they for the women in Middle-Eastern countries who are being raped, beaten, and killed? Or is that less of a priority? While you’re protesting the wage-gap, their lives are in danger. Is modern feminism really that selfish? Help them to be treated as humans before you worry about man-spreading.
Tumblr made me believe the worst about people when I was younger. It made me believe that all men were out to hurt and take advantage of me. It told me that blacks can’t be racist and showed me the opposite. It told me that Ted Cruz abused his wife. I met and talked to her. She denied anything but good from her husband. You lie just to prove your points and help your own agendas. You create other accounts to spread hateful things just so you look like a hero when you reply to them. Never trust anything you see on Tumblr without researching it. Not even from me.
The Pope can’t be progressive or a good ally. He’s required to be socially conservative and Catholic-centric.
That’s kind of his job and the tenets of the religion he’s the head of. The occasional fiscal liberalism comes from the whole “not worldly” thing, and is about the only exception. The pope’s always going to be a conservative dude elected by all the other most senior conservative dudes in the Catholic church, and occasionally you’ll get one who’s marginally less awful on what he thinks Good Things are/more devoted to actually trying to be good than be in power, but don’t ever think that Pope Francis or any other pope is going to be more progressive than the bulk of existing Church doctrine. Stop celebrating his minor concessions.
–Golbat
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Vaccines are safe and don’t cause autism. Get your flu shot so your germs don’t kill people.
Unless you have an egg allergy (eggs are used to culture vaccines) or are immunosuppressed, get vaccinated.
Also, autism isn’t a bad thing. I prefer being autistic to being dead, or killing someone who’s on chemo because I gave them a bad case of something.
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If you only care about Palestine/Syria/etc. because some of the people there are Christians, you don’t actually care.
That’s either just horrifically self-centered and callous or a displaced and factually inaccurate persecution complex.
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Equality Golbat: “It’s awful that attacking Planned Parenthood shuts down the 97% that is non-abortion services, and the loss of abortion-related services is also a tragedy.”
The defunding of Planned Parenthood isn’t a tragedy just because referrals for abortions aren’t the only things Planned Parenthood does. It’s a tragedy because of all the things Planned Parenthood does including informing people about the option of abortion, which is an important and necessary part of a modern healthcare system.
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Most people agree with the actual provisions of Obamacare when it’s referred to as its real name, the Affordable Care Act.
And, yeah, a lot of that is because of deliberate conservative propaganda, but it makes you think that a lot of people and especially the ones who made the executive decision to hype that propaganda back in 2009-10 and thereabouts simply hate Obama…for some reason other than his (admittedly often less than stellar) politics…gee I wonder what it could be.
–Golbat
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Never having had your humanity and rights questioned as part of a class discussion is a privilege.
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The ability to simply disagree with bigoted things instead of feeling directly attacked by them is a privilege.
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The ability to find conservatives hilarious instead of terrifying is a privilege.
Additionally, there is nothing more jarring than being in a minivan full of supposedly liberal straight cis white boys who are all acting like Donald Trump being elected would be simply funny and a little embarrassing rather than “I and a significant number of my friends would suffer material hardship and possibly be directly injured or killed if that happens.” (Though honestly, simply being in a minivan full of cis straight white boys is scary enough on its own, even if they’re all related to you.)
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Your favorite children’s book is probably racist and sexist.
Or, if it’s not, the author probably also wrote things for adults which will extremely disappoint you. (Yes, this is mostly about my thesis reading.)
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If hate rhetoric conflates two categories, then the hate is about both categories and no amount of hairsplitting is going to change that.
Or, it might even really just be about the actually not-bad category. When someone calls all Arabs terrorists, they don’t really hate terrorists, they’re justifying hating Arabs. When someone calls all gay people pedophiles, they hate gay people more than pedophiles. When someone condemns feminists for being socialist lesbians, it’s a pretty good chance that they just hate women, as well as socialists and gay people. Bigots noticeably don’t care about or even at times glorify white terrorists and straight pedophiles, so it’s pretty easy to tell what they’re actually talking about; and it’s not simply misconceptions, it’s deliberate. Hairsplitting instead of pointing out hateful attribution is derailing.
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Yes, not all Muslims are Arabs. No, you can’t act like islamophobia isn’t a race issue.
The rhetoric of islamophobia is heavily racialized and islamophobia is used primarily to excuse racism; therefore islamophobia is a race issue.
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Deadnaming: Referring to a trans person by a name they’ve retired.
The term deadnaming comes from the fact that it’s often done to trans people who are dead. Typically their parents along with some political and/or religious group take the opportunity to aggressively misgender them when they can no longer object.
Deadnaming can be intentional, meant to dehumanize and disrespect the trans person. Deadnaming can also be accidental; sometimes you don’t see someone for a while, and you don’t know they’ve changed their name. Not using their current name dehumanizes and disrespects them, regardless.
–Nidoqueen & Glaceon
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Vaccines are easy mode for your immune system, not the nightmare mode version of “regular” pathogens.
Actually, vaccines aren’t just easy mode, they’re literally the tutorial at the beginning of the game that’s like one enemy coming very slowly and the display is “this is how you shoot things.” That is the entire point of vaccines: making your body able to recognize and defeat specific pathogens without you having to actually get sick first.
–Golbat
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If your immune system can fight off pathogens, imagine how easily it can deal with vaccines.
Vaccines are weakened or dead germs. They can’t fight back against your immune system the way normal germs can. If you’re willing to take the chance that your immune system could beat measles or w/e, then logically you should be more willing to have it deal with the vaccine because it’s less risk. Also, not being sick and having to miss school/work is a good thing.
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