| emotion-driven race philosophy |
[Sep. 10th, 2008|02:15 pm] |
i couldn’t tell you how many white people i’ve met who have said stuff to me like, ‘i had no idea you weren’t white,’ or ‘i didn’t even think of you in those terms (cuz im not a racist <3),’ or ‘i always just thought you were white’
after 17 years of interacting with white people, i have developed an intuition that tells me exactly which of these white people are actually saying “dude, at first i thought you were a mexican but then you were smart, so i was confused.” in other words, “yeah i wasn’t really sure but i figured you were white because you weren’t overwhelmingly stupid and criminal. also you didn’t rape me and you listen to real music.”
oh, another one: ‘i wasn’t sure, but i like you so i gave you the benefit of the doubt and figured you were white, cause youre awesome.’
it’s not the case every time, but too fucking often.
....also, when did it become okay for white people to start using the word ‘nigga’ ?
ps. think very carefully about what you’re saying if you are thinking to yourself that it’s just my intuition and therefore its not necessarily reliable. |
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| 5 quick links to brighten up your day. |
[Aug. 15th, 2008|01:40 pm] |
People who look brown are forced to prove their legal residence or citizenship if they were born using a midwife instead of a hospital: http://latinainstitute.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/nlirh-decries-the-state-department%E2%80%99s-discriminatory-practices-toward-latino-us-citizens/
If you show up at an airport with no ID you will end up on a terrorist watch list: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5568621&page=1
A 15-year US resident who had fathered 2 American children goes to his finalizing green card interview, gets locked up by DHS and abused. He has spinal cancer and is in excruciating pain and is told to stop faking, until he dies from lack of treatment in custody. His family is denied visiting rights as he is fucking dying. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/nyregion/13detain.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
“...during a raid last summer, ICE officers went door to door asking how many people were inside each house—and what race they were. In an ICE operation in Willmar, Minn., Latino residents were handcuffed and interrogated while white residents, some even in the same home, went unquestioned.”
“In San Rafael, Calif., ICE detained 6-year-old Kebin Reyes, a citizen from birth, holding him in a locked office for 12 hours after immigration agents, pretending to be police, stormed into the apartment he shared with his father and forcibly removed him from his home.”
...and other heroic feats of ICE (also known as the KKK with riot gear): http://www.slate.com/id/2192393/pagenum/all/
FOX News holdin’ it down as always: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/94903 |
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| hmmm |
[Jul. 5th, 2008|01:19 am] |
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| SWPL backlash |
[Apr. 12th, 2008|04:54 am] |
So, I posted a link to that blog - “Stuff White People Like.” It’s a comedy blog that pokes fun at white culture with articles about things that white people love, like expensive coffee, traveling in Europe, etc. I think that most people who read my blog would understand why I would post it. I think it’s funny, silly, and it does have some importance, but it’s not necessarily going to have any real effect on actual race relations. It’s just fun, not to be taken seriously at all.
Samhita Mukhopadhyay is one of the writers at feministing.com, one of my favorite blogs. More so than the other writers there, she posts deep critical analyses on race relations. She posted her (awesome) opinion about the SWPL blog, and just as expected, most of her (mostly white) readers had negative things to say about it.
The following is what happens when I react to a white-dominated race-related comment thread at 5 AM, and is the reason I'm writing this post right now. In other words, the following is my response to angry white peoples' response to Samhita Mukhopadhyay's response to some guy's response to white culture, at 5 AM.
This is what I said:
“the value that i see in that blog is to point out to white people that they have a culture. it is a HUGE problem in this country that most white people see their culture as the default culture, and therefore don’t think of it as a culture, but they see other non-white cultures as cultures because they are “ethnic.” this is the same way that whiteness works in general. white people don’t like hearing told that they are white. they see themselves as the default, the norm, as non-racial, as just “regular.” the value of this blog is to point out to people that just like black people, just like mexican people, they are subject to cultural sillyness that they have never questioned, that they see as the norm, as the default. this blog forces people within that privileged society that there are people outside of it who are able to analyze it, who are able to see that their culture is in fact a culture, it is not just the way people are born, and it is not somehow better than others. it is subject to analysis just like the “ethinic” cultures that privileged whites like to analyze. (a thought: documented cultural analysis probably exists mostly in the academic arena, dominated by privileged whites.)
putting big shiny rims and too many speakers on a cadillac is just as stupid as buying a 5,000 bike that you are only going to use for fun, not for transportation.it is a culturally influenced decision, it is a silly societal habit that people have to impress others, to impress themselves, to feel validated. too many white people think that they don’t do this....”why do poor black people spend their money on such useless shit?” without realizing that remodeling your kitchen is just as useless. this blog forces white people to see themselves externally, to show them that not everybody is like them and not everybody should be like them, to show them that they are, indeed, subject to culture and that they do fall for the same sillyness that others do.
and if you think that this blog is racist, you have no idea what racism in the US means. the fact that i’m brown ruins my life EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY, i am not sorry that you felt a little embarrassed by a joke article on a joke website.
also, to those who are saying that this website is generalizing and that not all white people are like that, you are missing the point of the blog. the point of the blog is not to talk about all white people.
i concede that the following may be a bit cynical, but im saying it anyways: it is very likely that the amount of racial “generalizing” that white people subconsciously do on an everyday basis overwhelmingly trumps any amount of generalizing you might think that blog does.
www.soda.can.com”
Links:
Feministing.com, a radical feminist blog, but not-so-radical in their politics in general: http://www.feministing.com
Stuff White People Like, a comedy blog poking fun at white culture: http://www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com
and here is a "complete list" (so far) of things that white people like: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/full-list-of-stuff-white-people-like/
Samhita's post about it, which includes the replies that pissed me off, as well as my own comment (which you just read): http://feministing.com/archives/008986.html |
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| migra pig rapes immigrant |
[Mar. 21st, 2008|03:37 pm] |
From the New York Times, who sometimes requires you to create a stupid fucking account on their site for you to access their articles:
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March 21, 2008
An Agent, a Green Card, and a Demand for Sex
By NINA BERNSTEIN
No problems so far, the immigration agent told the American citizen and his 22-year-old Colombian wife at her green card interview in December. After he stapled one of their wedding photos to her application for legal permanent residency, he had just one more question: What was her cellphone number?
The calls from the agent started three days later. He hinted, she said, at his power to derail her life and deport her relatives, alluding to a brush she had with the law before her marriage. He summoned her to a private meeting. And at noon on Dec. 21, in a parked car on Queens Boulevard, he named his price — not realizing that she was recording everything on the cellphone in her purse.
“I want sex,” he said on the recording. “One or two times. That’s all. You get your green card. You won’t have to see me anymore.”
She reluctantly agreed to a future meeting. But when she tried to leave his car, he demanded oral sex “now,” to “know that you’re serious.” And despite her protests, she said, he got his way.
The 16-minute recording, which the woman first took to The New York Times and then to the Queens district attorney, suggests the vast power of low-level immigration law enforcers, and a growing desperation on the part of immigrants seeking legal status. The aftermath, which included the arrest of an immigration agent last week, underscores the difficulty and danger of making a complaint, even in the rare case when abuse of power may have been caught on tape.
No one knows how widespread sexual blackmail is, but the case echoes other instances of sexual coercion that have surfaced in recent years, including agents criminally charged in Atlanta, Miami and Santa Ana, Calif. And it raises broader questions about the system’s vulnerability to corruption at a time when millions of noncitizens live in a kind of legal no-man’s land, increasingly fearful of seeking the law’s protection.
The agent arrested last week, Isaac R. Baichu, 46, himself an immigrant from Guyana, handled some 8,000 green card applications during his three years as an adjudicator in the Garden City, N.Y., office of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of the federal Department of Homeland Security. He pleaded not guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges of coercing the young woman to perform oral sex, and of promising to help her secure immigration papers in exchange for further sexual favors. If convicted, he will face up to seven years in prison.
His agency has suspended him with pay, and the inspector general of Homeland Security is reviewing his other cases, a spokesman said Wednesday. Prosecutors, who say they recorded a meeting between Mr. Baichu and the woman on March 11 at which he made similar demands for sex, urge any other victims to come forward.
Money, not sex, is the more common currency of corruption in immigration, but according to Congressional testimony in 2006 by Michael Maxwell, former director of the agency’s internal investigations, more than 3,000 backlogged complaints of employee misconduct had gone uninvestigated for lack of staff, including 528 involving criminal allegations.
The agency says it has tripled its investigative staff since then, and counts only 165 serious complaints pending. But it stopped posting an e-mail address and phone number for such complaints last year, said Jan Lane, chief of security and integrity, because it lacks the staff to cull the thousands of mostly irrelevant messages that resulted. Immigrants, she advised, should report wrongdoing to any law enforcement agency they trust.
The young woman in Queens, whose name is being withheld because the authorities consider her the victim of a sex crime, did not even tell her husband what had happened. Two weeks after the meeting in the car, finding no way to make a confidential complaint to the immigration agency and afraid to go to the police, she and two older female relatives took the recording to The Times.
Reasons to Worry
A slim, shy woman who looks like a teenager, she said she had spent recent months baby-sitting for relatives in Queens, crying over the deaths of her two brothers back in Cali, Colombia, and longing for the right stamp in her passport — one that would let her return to the United States if she visited her family.
She came to the United States on a tourist visa in 2004 and overstayed. When she married an American citizen a year ago, the law allowed her to apply to “adjust” her illegal status. But unless her green card application was approved, she could not visit her parents or her brothers’ graves and then legally re-enter the United States. And if her application was denied, she would face deportation.
She had another reason to be fearful, and not only for herself. About 15 months ago, she said, an acquaintance hired her and two female relatives in New York to carry $12,000 in cash to the bank. The three women, all living in the country illegally, were arrested on the street by customs officers apparently acting on a tip in a money-laundering investigation. After determining that the women had no useful information, the officers released them.
But the closed investigation file had showed up in the computer when she applied for a green card, Mr. Baichu told her in December; until he obtained the file and dealt with it, her application would not be approved. If she defied him, she feared, he could summon immigration enforcement agents to take her relatives to detention.
So instead of calling the police, she turned on the video recorder in her cellphone, put the phone in her purse and walked to meet the agent. Two family members said they watched anxiously from their parked car as she disappeared behind the tinted windows of his red Lexus.
“We were worried that the guy would take off, take her away and do something to her,” the woman’s widowed sister-in-law said in Spanish.
As the recorder captured the agent’s words and a lilting Guyanese accent, he laid out his terms in an easy, almost paternal style. He would not ask too much, he said: sex “once or twice,” visits to his home in the Bronx, perhaps a link to other Colombians who needed his help with their immigration problems.
In shaky English, the woman expressed reluctance, and questioned how she could be sure he would keep his word.
“If I do it, it’s like very hard for me, because I have my husband, and I really fall in love with him,” she said.
The agent insisted that she had to trust him. “I wouldn’t ask you to do something for me if I can’t do something for you, right?” he said, and reasoned, “Nobody going to help you for nothing,” noting that she had no money.
He described himself as the single father of a 10-year-old daughter, telling her, “I need love, too,” and predicting, “You will get to like me because I’m a nice guy.”
Repeatedly, she responded “O.K.,” without conviction. At one point he thanked her for showing up, saying, “I know you feel very scared.”
Finally, she tried to leave. “Let me go because I tell my husband I come home,” she said.
His reply, the recording shows, was a blunt demand for oral sex.
“Right now? No!” she protested. “No, no, right now I can’t.”
He insisted, cajoled, even empathized. “I came from a different country, too,” he said. “I got my green card just like you.”
Then, she said, he grabbed her. During the speechless minute that follows on the recording, she said she yielded to his demand out of fear that he would use his authority against her.
How Much Corruption?
The charges against Mr. Baichu, who became a United States citizen in 1991 and earns roughly $50,000 a year, appear to be part of a larger pattern, according to government records and interviews.
Mr. Maxwell, the immigration agency’s former chief investigator, told Congress in 2006 that internal corruption was “rampant,” and that employees faced constant temptations to commit crime.
“It is only a small step from granting a discretionary waiver of an eligibility rule to asking for a favor or taking a bribe in exchange for granting that waiver,” he contended. “Once an employee learns he can get away with low-level corruption and still advance up the ranks, he or she becomes more brazen.”
Mr. Maxwell’s own deputy, Lloyd W. Miner, 49, of Hyattsville, Md., turned out to be an example. He was sentenced March 7 to a year in prison for inducing a 21-year-old Mongolian woman to stay in the country illegally, and harboring her in his house.
Other cases include that of a 60-year-old immigration adjudicator in Santa Ana, Calif., who was charged with demanding sexual favors from a 29-year-old Vietnamese woman in exchange for approving her citizenship application. The agent, Eddie Romualdo Miranda, was acquitted of a felony sexual battery charge last August, but pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery and was sentenced to probation.
In Atlanta, another adjudicator, Kelvin R. Owens, was convicted in 2005 of sexually assaulting a 45-year-old woman during her citizenship interview in the federal building, and sentenced to weekends in jail for six months. And a Miami agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement responsible for transporting a Haitian woman to detention is awaiting trial on charges that he took her to his home and raped her.
“Despite our best efforts there are always people ready to use their position for personal gain or personal pleasure,” said Chris Bentley, a spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration Services. “Our responsibility is to ferret them out.”
When the Queens woman came to The Times with her recording on Jan. 3, she was afraid of retaliation from the agent, and uncertain about making a criminal complaint, though she had an appointment the next day at the Queens district attorney’s office.
She followed through, however, and Carmencita Gutierrez, an assistant district attorney, began monitoring phone calls between the agent and the young woman, a spokesman said. When Mr. Baichu arranged to meet the woman on March 11 at the Flagship Restaurant on Queens Boulevard, investigators were ready.
In the conversation recorded there, according to the criminal complaint, Mr. Baichu told her he expected her to do “just like the last time,” and offered to take her to a garage or the bathroom of a friend’s real estate business so she would be “more comfortable doing it” there.
Mr. Baichu was arrested as he emerged from the diner and headed to his car, wearing much gold and diamond jewelry, prosecutors said. Later released on $15,000 bail, Mr. Baichu referred calls for comment to his lawyer, Sally Attia, who said he did not have authority to grant or deny green card petitions without his supervisor’s approval.
The young woman’s ordeal is not over. Her husband overheard her speaking about it to a cousin about a month ago, and she had to tell him the whole story, she said.
“He was so mad at me, he left my house,” she said, near tears. “I don’t know if he’s going to come back.”
The green card has not come through. “I’m still hoping,” she said.
Angelica Medaglia contributed reporting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/nyregion/21immigrant.html?pagewanted=print
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good commentary here: http://feministing.com/archives/008854.html
1.) the NY Times refuses to call this what it actually is: rape
2.) it's pretty amazing that this woman came forward and that this is getting press
3.) this is not new. most victims of rape who are immigrants cannot report it from fear that they or their family will be compromised. |
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| Hell yeah. |
[Sep. 12th, 2007|06:38 pm] |
Check out this fuckin' awesome song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFRuUJR4LPI
There was some discussion on the blog I saw this on about how this is "reinforcing gender stereotypes." Not talking about gender stereotypes is what reinforces gender stereotypes. This forces people to think about it, and besides, it's true that a lot of guys are assholes in the way that Ciara is describing.... A LOT of guys. And it's not okay. Also, the is probably in response to gender relations in mainstream music, where all guys do act like this.
I wonder how the public response to this would compare to the response to an equivalent song about switching race roles. |
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| Georgia High School has its first Yankee prom. DAMN YANKEES! |
[Apr. 25th, 2007|08:05 am] |
CNN: Students attend school's first integrated prom
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/04/23/turner.prom/
The prom that a high school in Georgia had this year is the first one in the school's history in which both blacks and whites were allowed to go.
I come across articles like these all the time, but I figured that this one was shocking enough to the general public that it's worth posting. The best part of articles such as these is the quotes...they're quotes by friendly local folk who speak with such manners and well-meaning-ness that it's totally bizarre and hilarious in a way because what they're saying conveys so much violent hatred and conjures up images of the KKK burning people alive. Like..."well, I mean, I'm not a racist or anything, but as a parent, I just sometimes worry that my daughter will breathe the same air as one of The Blacks. We're going to have another PTA meeting to discuss how safe this is. So until then, we're just gonna go ahead and still have the whites-only prom. thx.) (Hint: pretty much every single time a sentence begins with "I'm not racist or anything, but" you can bet that what follows is going to be something wildly racist.) (Oh, and by the way...this is EXACTLY the way that the anti-immigrant neo-nazi crowd that I was dumb enough to dwell among speaks about Mexican people. Like, it's not even an exaggeration. That's actually part of the reason I posted this.)
Of course, CNN doesn't bother to give historical context or explain the conditions of the proms or tell us whether people of the wrong color were literally barred from entering the wrong prom. But they do make it seem like a South Park episode, in that the kids had a good time at the prom and were glad, while the parents were standing around saying really, really stupid things, which I guess is a good thing. But don't, for a minute, think that those kids all of a sudden don't have deep mindfucked notions of race relations.
Where the fuck is the 10 page New Yorker expose on this? |
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| how do the privileged stop racism? |
[Oct. 2nd, 2006|11:00 pm] |
question: what can privileged people do to stop racism?
answer: learn shit and tell people you learned it.
on a few occasions, i have exposed a friend to some piece of literature that i felt would be the right one, according to their personality, to help them really understand race relations in the US. sometimes, their response is a hopeless teary-eyed question: what can we do about it?
sometimes, the topic of race relations comes up in online message boards that are not necessarily about sociology. a huge debate ensues, which, amusingly, usually ends like this: "okay whatever. you claim that black people have it so bad, well what are you doing about it?? what do you want, all white people to be slaves? that's what you want isn't it??? cuz thats the only thing that could make you happy. theres no reasonable solutions. slavery happened, and we corrected its wrongs, so now even if black people are at a disadvantage, theyre just gonna have to work it out on their own and stop whining about it."
two completely opposite sentiments that both get stuck when they get to a certain point: what can we do about it? well.....sorry, you kinda stumbled into a question that usually takes a long book to answer. it would take me way too long to think about all the ways i can think of to fix US race relations, and then it would take me even longer to put it all together and then type it. but since i brought it up, and to prove that i actually do have shit in mind and i'm not just pretending to, it would involve things like:
-reforming or eventually overthrowing the way history is taught in schools (like, maybe they should actually teach some), (if youre white, imagine how much of a mindfuck it would be to be taught US history and be told that you didn't have anything to do with it...thats what non-white people feel like. "human beings evolved from monkeys approximately around the time socrates was born. in fact, the greeks were the first humans. next came rich european people from the 1800s, then all the people who dressed like george washington. then, some time during the 1950s, asians, eastern europeans, irish, and mexicans all came to the US on boats to take advantage of all the work white people had done in building America.")
-reforming or eventually overthrowing corporate media ("tonight on the local news, hella black people killing babies everywhere. why cant they be more like asians? both groups had the same experiences, historically speaking. sheesh." "feminists are female radical political activists who think women are better than men, kinda like how affirmative action supporters think there should be no whites in college." "tonight we interview pat robertson. we thought it was fair to interview him and a democratic senator, to balance out the opinions. see, the democratic senator has reasonable liberal views, but nothing too radical. pat buchanan has reasonable conservative views, but nothing to extreme. hes not an insane white surpemacist christian nazi TV personality who thinks mexicans are out to take over the country and has actually said that mexicans in arizona cheer for osama in stadiums. no, his views are perfectly appropriate to air on national television and it's okay for a news organization to treat them as views that we should consider." "today, the senate debated a bill proposed by a republican senator. some some have criticized the bill as being racially discriminatory, saying it is aimed at keeping blacks from voting. it's hard to tell whether that's true, i mean, the republican party isn't NOTORIOUS FOR ALWAYS DOING THAT or anything. since we here at Fair And Balanced News never jump to conclusions, we're instead gonna make it seem like the people criticizing the bill are crazy radical leftist groups and democrats out to win votes and oppose anything republicans say."
-stop treating race like a curse word in public and mainstream communication. ive met people who are afraid of saying the term "black people" because they feel it's racist. privileged people in privileged areas such as sonoma county who don't consider race relations a problem are contradicting themselves by not wanting to talk about it. if everyone is afraid of being racist, then obviously racism is a problem in society. one of the most exhausting things to think about is how the accepted way to fix race relations is to volunteer for government-funded day care programs that help inner city kids or something. sure, that's cool, but uh....there is no inner city in sonoma county. and there SURE AS HELL is a problem of racism. the only way to get the ball rolling on any issue is to openly talk about it. not only white people, but also people who get annoyingly offended by anything white people say about race. not EVERYTHING white people say about race is racist. if you want to fix race relations instead of just complaining about it, let white people talk about it and then join in on the discussion.
isn't it ironic....some people who read this will feel uneasy with my openness with the terms "white people" or "minority group"....heh....
-and while we're at it, it's important to openly discuss all political matters....including, and probably most importantly, (liberal democrats bite down on something NOW) capitalism. capitalism is a four letter word to liberals. anyone who uses that word is obviously a pot smoking communist teenager who we shouldn't take seriously. (isn't it interesting how people on both sides of the mainstream political spectrum use the term 'communist' but would never refer to themselves as 'capitalists' ? we're not capitalists, we're free-marketers!) if mainstream politics is so sure that capitalism is the only possible way to organize society, then it shouldnt have a problem answering the questions that non-capitalist thinkers have.
hm, the fact that i include this topic in a discussion about race kinda lets you in on a criticism i have of it, without even mentioning it. heh.
-expose drug laws for what they really are
-stop thinking of the phrase "divide and conquer" as catchy socialist rhetoric and think about what it really means. someone should write a paper about how this relates to the minutemen and the republican party.
.......................................godammit, that someone is gonna have to be me, isnt it =/
sooo, there's my "brief" "off the top of my head" solutions to race relations. but here's the point of this post: if any random white person walked up to me on the street and said "dude, i understand." it would make my day. bear with me....
one time when a friend finished reading Peggy McIntosh's "unpacking the invisible knapsack" ( http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~mcisaac/emc598ge/Unpacking.html ) from a book that i lent him, he called me and said, "fuck, i understand....but i dont feel like theres anything we can really do about it." i dont even remember what i told him, because whatever i said was half-assed because i hadnt written this post yet (it was a long time ago). later i had this weird insight: there are lots of things we as a society can do about racism, but goddamn, it felt good to hear him say that he understands. ironically, the most important step in fixing race relations is the most passive one: education. middle class people have this invisible force field (or maybe its not invisible, maybe its a giant solid iron wall) around their minds when it comes to the idea of white privilege. i have found that more than anything else, understanding this concept puts people over the hump of understanding race relations, and it usually takes off from there. white privilege exists, and you don't have to be offended by it. be an adult and deal with it, instead of being depressed about it or denying it (great essay by tim wise, why don't we start accusing people of "playing the denial card" when they accuse us of "playing the race card?" hes an awesome writer: http://www.timwise.org/ ). so, the first step is education. the next step, as i mentioned before, may seem kind of childish or dumb. i imagine a similar scenario, where a guy tells a girl that he understands how men hardly ever feel respect towards women, instead they feel the need to protect them, order them around, or fuck them. and the girl would probably feel like, oh, great, thanks, i've known that my whole life. buuuut, i imagine that somewhere in her mind the girl is really appreciating that, to the point that it gives her hope. in a world where the majority of the white population thinks that the definition of racism is "hating people" and only exists among neo-nazi and klan groups, you can make a world of difference to a person by telling them you understand. you understand, even if they don't, that slavery in the US was created as a solution to a class struggle among the white colonists, and that this is the same principle behind "the immigration crisis." you understand that in a college classroom that is almost all white, the mexican student is either gonna be quieted and alienated, or, in the case of a liberal-ass school like the JC, treated like a baby (ohh, that's so good! you speak english so well!).
i guess my feelings can be summed up by saying that just the fact that privileged people recognize their privilege can give hope to the oppressed who feel alone. it sounds silly, and maybe it is. actually it definitely is. but when you feel overwhelmed by information or guilt, take comfort in the fact that the people you are privileged over want more than anything to have their feelings validated.
after that, start killing rich people. then, freedom!
related: http://viktorfrankl.livejournal.com/55795.html |
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| fuck beaners! OH YEAH, PLAY THE RACE CARD WHY DON'T YOU |
[Jul. 27th, 2006|12:45 am] |
Here's something I've noticed whilst Reading The Internet lately: it has apparently officially become socially okay to spew racist hate speech......
.......as long as you end it with something like "ohhh, there will be some who say i'm a racist....but those people are just poli-correcta-nazis!!! of course i'm not a racist, only a stupid hairy lesbian liberal would say that!"
wow, it must be nice to do something and then say that everyone who accuses you of it is wrong. sometimes i wish i was a conservative, so i could have fun like that.
hmmmmm....well....i don't have anything to do at the moment......
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My Internet Rant (Conservative Style)
by Viktor Frankl
i hate whites. i cant fucking stand them...theyre ruining america!!! they are ALL rich, they are ALL snobby, all white women are stupid and pretty, and they all have a shopping addiction!! all white men are asshole greedy CEOs or redneck nascar-watching white trash!!! all white kids are rich spoiled little brats who never have to work because their parents buy them everything! they all drive nice cars and wear expensive clothes. fucking crackers.
OHHHHH....there will be SOME people who say that what i just said was racist...go ahead, call me a racist! you know i'm just saying the truth! it's not like i just spent a whole paragraph making generalizations about a certain group of people, and using those stereotypes to base my opinion on them! see, when I decide whether or not MY writing is racist, I get to decide that it's not!! all i have to do to make it seem like i'm a victim of the political correctness gestapo is add this little disclaimer, "don't play the race card!" it's win-win.....well.....i win...because i get to live in my own world where being a racist doesn't make you a racist...everyone else just has to read my bullshit...so i guess it's win-lose.....but the only losers are the stupid crackers! so who cares! (NOT RACIST.)
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whew! that was fun. no wonder there' so many of those, they don't require any thinking.
related: http://viktorfrankl.livejournal.com/61030.html
oh yeah and....that episode of that show on the FX channel about the minuteman living with illegal immigrants is good. The show is called "30 days." I don't know if they rerun it, but watch for it. |
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| Um...conservatives are always wrong...but we always keep doing this whole cycle... |
[May. 23rd, 2006|12:54 am] |
Conservatives are always wrong. So why do we still listen to them?
Just kidding...
Would the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, 14th/15th Amendments, Brown v. Board of Education, etc. have been able to pass if it weren't for an unspoken government policy of "sorry, white people, we know you hate blacks but you're just gonna have to deal with it" ?
In other words, racist white people in the US have historically felt that they were justified in hating black people, and that, consequently, racist laws were necessary. So, these people's lifestyles were violated whenever there was a new law that worked toward freeing blacks (emancipation, the right to vote, etc.) because they didn't want blacks to be free. In fact, not only were their lifestyles violated, but they lost political power (because of the increase in the voting population) as well as some of the social superiority they enjoyed. So it seems that despite pissing off racist white people, the government passed anti-racist laws.....most likely justified by the fact that, well, these anti-racist laws are so necessary that racist white people just pretty much have to fuckin' learn to deal with it.
Could this be an argument for affirmative action?
Could affirmative action be one of those things that is so important that maybe white people should just kinda fuckin learn to deal with it? It's happened before...and it turned out that now most people think it was the right thing to do. Racist whites were fucking pissed off whenever blacks were given more freedom, but surely now they wouldn't admit it, and most of them probably don't agree with the racist laws they once supported. So if you're against affirmative action, how can you know that it's not just another one of those things?
Does this argument apply for the immigration issue? I'm certain that it does. Gay marriage? The war in Iraq? (The sham-ness of Vietnam has been proven...)
But don't get me wrong; I'm not saying that laws should be passed just because an oppressed group of people agree with them. I guess I'm just saying that people who are against affirmative action, immigrant rights, gay rights, political vegetarians/vegans, etc. should think about this. |
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| omg maddox i luv u ur soooo funny i h8 niggers n fags |
[May. 14th, 2006|04:16 pm] |
How many times have you heard people complaining about political correctness? Perhaps a conservative whining about the Left's Liberal War On Freedom On Speech 2006, or maybe it's a completely non-political person regurgitating Maddox or Mencia, by saying something like, "I'm not politically correct. But I'm not racist or sexist either. I just hate faggot nigger bitches. Why should I have to be politically correct? I have freedom of speech." Or maybe it's a middle-aged man saying, "I'm not sexist. But you liberal language Nazis want to take away my traditions. I'll slap a woman's ass while she walks by and call her my sexy little girl, and expect her to do whatever I ask her to, but that doesn't mean I think less of her. You are violating my rights if you want me to be PC. Fag."
Look, I respect everyone's freedom of speech to say whatever they want. But that doesn't mean you get to use your privilege to hurt other people's feelings. And it doesn't mean you get to decide that anti-racist or anti-sexist statements are impeding on your rights and are part of some liberal conspiracy to turn you into a hairy lesbian. Sure, you can use the word "nigger," but you would have to admit that it's a racist word. You can say sexist things, but don't expect women to sit there and smile at you while you do it. It's important that people express what they feel. So if you're a racist or sexist piece of shit, go ahead and use your freedom of speech to admit it, instead of pretending like you're an oppressed freedom fighter struggling against the language gestapo.
What if every time you heard someone complain about political correctness, you said to them, "The American troops in Iraq are murderers. They are killing innocent people. They deserve to die, they are not worthy of living. I hate the troops. Every time I watch the news and more American soldiers died, it makes me so happy. Their suffering is my bliss. You know what else? The US deserved 9/11. The people in those buildings were all business men who deserved what they got. Miserable pieces of shit." If they respond with anything other than complete respect for your right to say it, then you don't have any obligation to listen to their ranting.
Go ahead and be racist. But don't complain if people whose feelings are hurt speak up against you. |
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| Privilege of Unawareness |
[Mar. 13th, 2006|01:15 pm] |
The ultimate white privilege is that American society doesn't require white people to understand race relations in order succeed. In other words, it is the ability to dismiss everyone else's problems without financial/physical/economic/personal/mental consequence. People of color in the US must study American history and racial sociology if they hope to understand why it seems so much more difficult to succeed than it seems for white people. Otherwise, they (people in the US who aren't white) remain helplessly confused and/or stubborn/angry if they try to listen to "both sides of the argument" : the "it's all white people's fault, but we're not really sure why" side and the "This is the land of opportunity. I didn't have any extra "white privilege." I worked my ass off and you can too, you're just fucking lazy." side.
I guess you could call it "privilege of unawareness" ? I suspect it works the same way for gender relations (men being the ones with unawareness privilege).
NOTICE: I carefully specified "financial/physical/economic/personal/mental consequence." White privilege makes "success" easier for whites, but it negatively affects them in a philosophical sense: it makes them more ignorant.
IN MORE SIMPLE TERMS: Even if not everybody understands all that complicated history/politics/economics/sociology stuff, everyone should understand that just the fact that white people don't really have to think about all that stuff makes life hella easier for them, but it also makes them kinda dumber, in a way, so it's not ALL good for them.
DISCLAIMER: I have no doubt offended at least a couple white people by writing that. Please understand that this concept is somewhat abstract, and that if you get down to literal details, of course it's not going to work. For example, of course white people need to know something about race relations if they hope to understand racial/ethnic affirmative action (something that affects them). Technically this example corresponds to what I wrote, but, looking at the big picture, racial/ethnic affirmative action isn't an institutionalized government machine that has oppressed white people for hundreds of years, crippling their well-being and sense of identity. As a matter of fact, white people who think they are being negatively affected by racial/ethnic affirmative action might be encouraged to read up on racial sociology, and this could be considered a positive consequence, as opposed to a person of color who benefits from it, who isn't required to understand the theory behind the policy....which means that..... it turns out that racial/ethnic affirmative action gives people of color a little bit of the unawareness privilege that white people have been hogging. HOWEVER: I'm not saying this should be the goal of racial/ethnic affirmative action, since it is a negative effect. Ideally, everyone should be studying race relations and racial/ethnic sociology..... I just thought it would be a neat thing to point out. As mentioned above, ignorance is never a good thing...in a philosophical sense...well you know what i mean =/
As always, I may be wrong. That's what the "comments" feature of my blog is for. |
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