fuckyeahcracker:

Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like That”:

• Literally nothing other than white people having their feelings hurt on the internet
• I’m not joking there is no real world consequence of this

Effects Of Thinking People of Color Are “All Like That”:

• Saudi student is literally surrounded by FBI for cooking rice under terrorist suspicions
• White people literally can not associate positive words with Black faces because of racism
• More white people use drugs but Black people are sent to jail for drugs at 10 times the rate that white people are
• Black people who “sound Black” earn less money than those who don’t because of associations with stereotypes. Black people who “sound Black” are less likely to get called back for jobs
• Black children grow up literally associating being Black with being bad and ugly
• White people when tested shot more unarmed Black subjects than armed and unarmed white subjects
• Hate crimes increase after Boston tragedy
• Moroccan High School Student is linked to Boston tragedy for being Brown
• Bangladeshi man is beaten by people out of racism
• NYPD Commissioner wants Black and Latino men to fear him after the police targeted literally 90 percent Black and Latino men in New York and humiliating them by frisking them in public under the assumption that they had weapons. Studies found that white men were the ones who overwhelmingly had weapons while Black and Latino men didn’t
• White people blaming and convicting Black men for crimes they never committed and everyone believing them because of racism
• Stop and Frisk, ruled unconstitutional was practiced by New York police disproportionately and unfairly affecting 90% Black and Latino men because of racism
• Universities throwing racist ‘Fiesta Party’ homogenizing culture with extreme racism
• Here are some of the numbers on hate crimes against People of Color and btw, Neo Naziism is increasing!
• Every 28 Hours an African American is Extrajudicially Murdered in the U.S.
• Black people 3 times more likely to be arrested for Marijuana
• Black people receive much harsher sentencing than white people for the same crimes do I need to go on?

But yeah, white people’s feelings :*(

ave-atque-vale:

I swear by Cthulhu, if you ever come at me with “aha! I have refuted your position on this complex sociological issue by visiting Dictionary.com!” I will personally come find you and make you write a 10,000 word essay on the purpose of a dictionary.

What the fuck, people. If we’re talking about Mendelian laws of inheritance, do you look to the fucking dictionary? If we’re talking about planetary geology, do you look to the fucking dictionary? I mean, yes, the dictionary will give you definitions for that shit - and it will absolutely be helpful if you know absolutely fuck-all about those words, because it can point you in the right general direction!

But if you’re having a conversation about those subjects - a conversation which pre-supposes that you know what those things actually fucking are - would you try to refute someone’s point by being like “WELL I DIDN’T SEE IT IN THE DICTIONARY”? Or would you maybe read a fucking book on genetics or astronomy - you know, like any rational sentient being would do?

There are absolutely times when the dictionary is of enormous help - but any tool is only useful when you’re making good use of it. Referring to the fucking dictionary when you’re talking about complex sociological institutions and constructs is like trying to use a carpenter’s level for neurosurgery: it’s proof positive that you don’t understand the concept/task at hand OR the tool you’re trying to use.

thisiswhiteprivilege:

White Privilege is being able to complain Reverse Racism exists because you’ll never have to experience it as a systematic institution, but instead were merely made uncomfortable for a few seconds because of your feelings of white guilt. White privilege is being able to use said white guilt to consistently silence the complaints of POC by saying racism is no longer real or there because you said so, and having the whole world now reluctant to discuss it because you said so.

theoceanandthesky:

obentomusubi:

If I were white, it would be assumed that I’m a citizen of the United States.

It would be assumed that I can speak English pretty well, and others would be surprised if I could not speak English well.

But Asian Americans and other POCs often get asked questions like, “Do you speak X? Where are you from? No, no, like where are your parents from? No, you know what I mean!”

I’m a fourth generation Japanese American. My grandparents speak English fluently because they were, you know, born and raised here. But that doesn’t stop others from asking me this kind of shit.

Having white privilege means that you are the default “American”. Non-white Americans have to constantly attempt to prove their “Americanness” if they are to be viewed as “real” citizens.

And of course, this can be complicated so much when talking about indigenous issues…

if i were white i wouldn’t have to worry about my hair being “acceptable” when i go to work or to interviews or media events.

if i were white i wouldn’t have to be labelled a slut because of the color of my skin (regardless of how frequently i have sex, or what kind of clothes i wear. this is NOT to say that white women are never labelled as sluts because they are, but the dynamics for a Black woman are different),

if i were white people would automatically assume i got into a good school because i worked for it.

if i were white people would probably see me as quirky and not ghetto.

if i were white i wouldn’t get anons calling me a nigger all the damn time.

if i were white people would see me as the ultimate face of femininity.

if i were white i’d see more of myself on television and in movies (with more depth, not playing the role of a “mammy” or a ‘jezebel’).

if i were white i wouldn’t have to worry about my children being killed for existing.

if i were white i probably wouldn’t ever be followed around in the grocery store because people assume i’m stealing shit.

if i were white i’d be more likely to be hired. 

if i were white i would never be pulled over for being “an illegal immigrant.”

i could keep going, trust and believe.