I keep thinking the apathy stated in the chans, but I ran into the same anti-progressive sentiments on The Escapists
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Why is it more normal to deny every issue but the fact that "progressives pushed to hard and normal people fought back" is accepted?
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When did the acceptance of all these behaviors become the norm, and people trying to encourage us to be better became "troublemakers"?
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Through it all though, I can't help but think of that Chapelle sketch about black people watching the election and not being surprised...
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Because to see all these things as issues that "became" is to admit I was not affected by them, due to my identity and privilege
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If this fight has always been going on, then the fact it's finally boiled over into a noramlizing of ideas is just the end point
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7 years ago when white people heard a racist joke, they thought it was bad taste. Only now they are so open do we see what they harbor
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Now us white folks are calling things like this "new" when in fact black people have known them forever http://abc7chicago.com/news/vandals-obliterate-info-on-emmett-till-marker-in-mississippi/2155764/ …
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The simplest explanation for the resurgence of white supremacy is it never left. Privilege just kept us seeing isolated ideas
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But what does seem to have changed is that white people can't stand the thought of being indicted even a *little in white supremacy
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This has resulted in a victim complex that allows the oppressor to claim their discrimination is unfairly dismissedpic.twitter.com/CGVD3FnTJD
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In order to make such narcissistic claim, a white person has to find a way to indict the oppressed, so he calls them "animals"
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He can't use the N word because he's educated and knows it's history, but he CAN use every other implication of savagery, inhumanity
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White people can claim black people are given scholarships, thus cancelling out oppression they faced, then say white people are denied them
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White people can deny that the police are oppressive to black people, by othering them and saying them draw attention by not following them
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The concept of "new oppression" is low on those privileged to see it as an individual issue, "Just follow the cops orders" they say
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But to do all this requires white people to be so consumed with not feeling responsibility, that they turn their frustration on the opprssed
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The central tenant of this conservative/libertarian/neo-liberal ideology is that by speaking up, we exacerbate tensions
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I remember once thinking this, that racism and sexism could only be cured by refusing to see them. Individual acts were not part of it
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It's a tempting, privileged view of the world. And it fits because it lets an individual preach how strong they are by NOT reactingpic.twitter.com/BNDJDJ1QDt
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What people who preach it however will not understand is that we ALL participate in a culture of sexism, it's not just "those guys"
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And as those in activism say, the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. But others fixate on the length part
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"If we will someday achieve equality, or even if we don't, we won't know it for a long time. So why do I need to worry about it?"
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well, you got your fucking wish. Because we refused to recognize white supremacy, patriarchal systems, and gender identities, people deny
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they exist, or reinterpret history, or cut off funding for women's healthcare, or refuse to let the press in, and say everything's fine
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I have a very bad analogy I'm going to make from my own experiences of feeling frustrated at something "intruding" in my world
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I have never quite warmed to My Little Ponies. I watched the original cartoons when i was a kid and my sister had some dolls tho
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For me, MLP is a childhood past thing. So the resurgence in it weirded me out. Why now, why here?
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I saw it go from this kids cartoon to a fandom with no explanation why it was-or SHOULD-be popular next to every other show or fandom
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I was on the chans at that time, and the reaction to MLP is pretty much legendary. THEY COULD NOT STAND THEM
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Why would supposedly good, fun-loving /b/ denizens have such a problem with lightheated MLP? Because they were the "other"
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Why is everyone so ready to think the worst is over?
We need guilt, we need shame, just not yours.
Now is the time of bloody rebirth, not peace