privilege as a meme

this is the good kind of skepticism imo

your friend prob didn't read it

kind of a bummer conclusion tho

Based on this analysis then, our project becomes less of one based on self-improvement or even collective self-improvement, and more about the creation of new worlds and futurities for which we currently have no language.

oh great sign me up i guess...

hah. well.

the point she actually goes on to make is cool tho

At the 2005 World Social Forum in Brazil, activists from Chiapas reported that this movement began to realize that one cannot combat militarism with more militarism because the state always has more guns. However, if movements began to build their own autonomous zones and proliferated them until they reached a mass scale, eventually there would be nothing the state’s military could do. If mass-based peoples’ movements begin to live life using alternative governance structures and stop relying on the state, then what can the state do? Of course, during the process, there may be skirmishes with the state, but conflict is not the primary work of these movements. And as we see these movements literally take over entire countries in Latin America, it is clear that it is possible to do revolutionary work on a mass-scale in a manner based on radical participatory rather than representational democracy or through a revolutionary vanguard model.

didn't sarkozy fuck up a bunch of autonomists in france tho?

yes. i think there's a lot we can learn from chiapas, and that one of the lessons is that "you will get fucked up by people that have more explosions than you do"

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/entrepreneurship-the-ultimate-white-privilege/278727/

http://aseasonedplateofmurder.tumblr.com/post/37223757218/privilege-hierarchy

lol

I will be a junior in college in the fall.

Women are always less privileged than men REGARDLESS of race. So that means when a man rapes a woman that it is always rape.

oh so THAT'S what that means

also my post here was couple of years too early: ODD FUTURE WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL

so these tumblrs are actually real, huh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u93L8r19il4

Won't someone think of the "pans/demi" mens? By which I mean, they do not appear on the list. Which is a real omission because I might be basing some important life decisions on this list.

pans/demi men are up at the top obv

i found myself silently arguing with some placements on that list before slapping myself in the face.

would it surprise anyone the person who made this list is in college

what does "pans/demi" actually mean? because "pansexual" and "demisexual" seem to be completely different concepts that wouldn't really go together

my job just fired someone for being a pans/demi woman, so maybe my eyes just aren't open enough

unless that's a typo and she meant "pants/demi", aka women who wear capris

pretty sure I own that White Pans / Demi Female split 7"

ha maybe being sexually attracted to everything is the same as being sexually attracted to nothing? think about it.

because "pansexual" and "demisexual" seem to be completely different concepts that wouldn't really go together

they are both outwith our normal privileged concepts of sexuality and thus together at the bottom of the oppression pyramid.

what a wonderful tumblr

it's quite the rollercoaster ride isn't it

sums it up nicely:

http://aseasonedplateofmurder.tumblr.com/post/57486143961/people-are-so-threatened-by-my-views-and

this has to be a troll tumblr. if not then this woman needs help

Kinda doing intersectionality wrong

aw come on, she's a sophomore in college. xp

weren't we all doing intersectional feminism wrong in college

It's more of a cross-product here.

I wasn't aware of "intersectional feminism" as a term when I was in college so I was almost assuredly doing it wrong

nationalsocialistpartyusa reblogged this from truecatholic

Have Morals, Bomb a CAFO, Commit to the Revolution.

I like how she's all "have morals, go socialist" in her header but capes up for democrats whenever anyone criticizes them from the left.

btw DL (if you're still reading) there's a term for what you were doing itt

tbrr the notion of tone policing sort of makes me mad

like i recognize and honor the validity of all kinds of emotional responses to heavy information, but when telling someone 'rage is not the best educator of your allies' becomes a category of oppressive behavior i have an impulse to throw up my hands

obviously the only people with an obligation to educate are those who know and can reach the people in need of learning, and when it comes to dumb white people saying dumb white people things, sometimes white people who've learned about why its dumb are the right people to do the teaching, and to expect other people to do that teaching through or with their other justified emotions is a problem

but like damn sections of the internet are on the mad setting permanently, even friends of mine

i dunno

you're almost there

yeah i feel you, there is a lot to be said for finding your center and learning to react in a healthy way, i'm not great at this but i recognize i can get better at it

that said, i think 'tone policing' is useful to describe how assertiveness and advocacy are interpreted by privilege as belligerence and anger

tone policing is the worst, it always seems like a tactic to divert focus away from the actual argument, as if a point made rudely is automatically invalid. and often the people being rude have good reason to be angry!

not that i'm totally familiar with the phenomenon but it seems like a symptom of so much of this discourse being people reading and writing on the internet.

where 'tone' is as much a matter of reader inference as writer intent

one day in the future we will all communicate via videoconferencing

there's always a point in any internet debate or fight where you just want to put all the participants into a room irl (either because it'll help them sort it out without getting internet-angry or because they'll be out of my sight)

Uzjfkshe I just wrote a long post on my phone and zing ate it

For me it breaks down two ways:

1) That kind of tone policing ONLY is ever used against people in non-privileged groups when it wouldn't be used against a person of the privileged group.

2) Who the fuck are you as a white person or straight person (or man, able person, etc.) to tell me as a black person or queer person (or woman, disabled person, etc.) that I can't be angry or sad about the things I or other people in those groups experience?

b-but I'm demisexual