#white pride

liesthepatriarchytoldme:

Tumblr user “panda-cat” didn’t get the satisfaction of me answering her messages about “white racism,” so she needed to get her fix elsewhere. Drop it. Nobody wants to talk about this thing you call “white racism” for the simple fact that it doesn’t exist. The fact that you can’t get your head around such a thing proves you don’t deserve to be given the time of day. Not on this subject, at least.

I see this all the time. Women can’t be sexist towards men and black people can’t be racist towards white people. And why? Because the concepts of sexism and racism were invented to tell white men that instead of being superior, they are decidedly inferior. That they shouldn’t be proud of their race or gender because it’s not worth anything. They should wish they were black or a woman.

Feminism preaches equality, but this is what it is in practice.

Equality Golbat: Radical isn’t liberal. Reactionary isn’t conservative.

Equality Golbat: If you want to be an ally, learn how to listen to people.

Sometimes, you’re going to hear things or see things and you’re going to be shocked. You might even be offended. Do not spend your time refuting those kind of claims. If you’re so upset that people can’t see you’re not “like other white/cis/straight/abled people,” it’s not time for you to be an ally.

Spend more of your time in an effort to see where other people are coming from, instead of trying to make yourself look like a hero.

-Glaceon

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.

–Nidoqueen

Equality Golbat: “Being pressured to accept your abusive parents because ‘that’s just Asian parents being strict’ is not a form of privilege.”

Equality Golbat: “Being stereotyped as bad drivers, bad speakers, and abusive parents is not a form of privilege.”

Equality Golbat: There shouldn’t be a compulsory pledge of allegiance to begin with.

I’m fully aware that the US Pledge of Allegiance violates separation of church and state. It’s also horribly inaccurate.

“Liberty and justice for all” doesn’t exist for our enormous prison population, societally oppressed groups, nor for the people whose cultures have been almost destroyed in the aftermath of American imperialism.

The US today is run as an oligarchy, not a republic, and certainly not a democracy.

And children who don’t even know the implications of swearing allegiance are being deprived of the ability to think critically about their country from the start.

-Glaceon

Equality Golbat: No one should be drafted, regardless of gender.

Even if military drafts are an example of sexism harming men, no one should have to be drafted from the start. Military drafts remove all people’s agency. If the people don’t want to go to war, they shouldn’t have to be forced into it.

The people should ultimately decide whether or not to go to war.

-Glaceon

Abuse culture: A culture in which certain groups are treated as problems rather than people.

Let’s not pretend that abuse is “only a family problem”. In every setting, in every aspect of society, abuse runs rampant. Everyone not seen as “normal” is treated violently and inhumanely-whether it be through physical, financial, or emotional violence. Abuse is so ingrained in society that members of the group “normal” can say they believe other don’t people deserve to be happy, don’t deserve to be accepted, don’t deserve to express their feelings, or don’t deserve to live, without any repercussions whatsoever.

That, needless to say, is a huge problem. And navigating through the sea of abuse culture colors our lives in every way imaginable.