#light skinned privilege

[thatspookyagent]

Actually no, if you fight so hard against racism, and even other forms of oppression, but let colorism slide specifically, you're not actually committed to being anti-racism and are instead actively upholding the very things that you claim to be against. Colorism absolutely intersects with multiple other forms of marginalization but too many folks (mainly folks with light skin) are in denial about that or see colorism as something to let slide.

Stop pretending like you don't notice whenever you hear or see news about a Black or Brown person being murdered or assaulted, the folks that get shown being beaten or killed on news outlets the most, aren't ones of darker shades. Reports about POC being harmed that get sensualized, are often ones of brown & dark skinned folks, let's acknowledge that elephant in the room. Just like who's more likely to be the face of a supposed "thug" or "dangerous looking individual" versus who's the face of the "approachable" or "docile individual". Cut the shit.

And this covers all communities that include POC in them. Darker skinned Black and Brown trans folks being amongst the most reported cases of harm and assault. Dark skinned queer folks being more likely to be viewed as masculine, regardless if they identify as such, and as a a result having a higher chance of being stereotyped as "mean", "aggressors", or "perpetrators of harm".

This isn't even getting into how medical racism banks heavily on myths about darker skin being harder to treat in various different ways or the lack of training on detecting and identifying injuries on darker skin tones therefore heightening the risks of medical neglect and misdiagnosis. And of course it doesn't stop there, it happens on much smaller and less physically harmful scales as well.

Such as a variety of darker skin tones being harder to find on binders or packers, being less likely to be advertised on items that multi marginalized darker POC buy (examples being plus sized clothing, mobility aids, and hair care products), and still having to take a backseat in terms of representation because folks with a closer proximity to whiteness, still have a privilege in being represented, even if they're not white & marginalized in other ways as well.

I could quite literally go on and on about how colorism intersects with so many axes of oppression, on both marco and micro levels but first I'm gonna need more so called activists, educators, progressives, etc, to really pay attention to colorism and take it seriously in the first place. Regardless if you or anyone that you know faces it personally because we're way past only caring or talking about certain things, just because of your close proximity to someone who personally faces it.

#colorism #racism #anti racism #liberals #poc #people of color #intersectionality #intersectional activism #activism #light skinned privilege #light skin privilege #white privilege #ableism #medical racism #transphobia #homophobia #queerphobia #queer #trans #lgbt #lgbtq #queer community #lgbt community #lgbtq community #bias #prejudice #discrimination #anti black racism #anti blackness #antiblackness

[rebellum]

The whole transandrophobia discussion thing is weird bc it feels like it's a bunch of poc and jewish trans people being like "here are my experiences of how specifically being MASCULINE had affected me, and the discrimination and violence I experienced based on that. And here is how that relates to me being a racial/ethnic minority"

And then a few loud white trans people going "ohhh you wanna be oppressed so bad you *slur*. This is why there aren't any poc in your movement it's because REAL poc understand intersectionality"

#hot take white culturally christian or athiest leftests do not properly interpret white jewish ppl #like as a poc i and other poc understand that white jewish ppl often get racial privilege #but a) not always b) they experience oppression based off of their ethnicity #idk from my perspective it seems like white goyim either see jewish ppl as 'the disgusting exotic enemy' or 'basically WASPS but they #wanna feel special' #with no nuance. no recognition #look maybe this next part is bc i didnt grow up with jewish ppl and therefore didnt know until I was 18/19 that jewish ppl can count as #white. but like. idk how to say this. i dont wanna speak over white jewish ppl. but like. #jewish ppl that have obvious jewish features (whether Ashkenazi facial features OR they dont have those but wear eg kippahs) #arent like. white. idk pls correct me if this is antisemitic or incorrect or something. #but like. light skinned =/= white obviously. #i just struggle to see how my bestfriend with her lovely dark eyes and curls and nice nose counts as 'white' when ppl call her the k slur #across the street. ykwim? #like white doesnt mean light skinned. it means 'part of the in-group of white ppl' #like my ex who is white and jewish? yeah hes white. if he didnt wear his necklace then goyim wouldnt know. you know #like obvs he still experiences ethnic oppression but he doesnt experience racial oppression #but other ppl with more prominent eg ashkenazi (im singling them out bc most jewish ppl here are ash.) like i dont GET how they have racial #privilege.

[rhaenin-time]

People who argue that Rhaenyra has no right to fight the misogyny she's subjected to because she's already "privileged," take me back to all those men who belittle western feminists for complaining about "first world problems."

You know the ones. The ones who say that if you're lucky enough to live in X country, you have no right to complain about "the little bit of privilege you don't get". The ones who then go on to say something racist and paternalistic about how women in Y region have it so much worse.

And the thing is, the demographic proportions of medieval nobility vs. peasantry, and citizens of [these countries they're thinking of] vs. [THOSE countries they're thinking of but probably don't even know the names of], really aren't THAT different.

What I'm saying is, knock it off. It screams, "Rhaenyra wanting bodily autonomy is such a first world problem!"

#hotd #hotd critical #house of the dragon #rhaenyra targaryen #hotd sexism #anti team green #team black #asoiaf #I have literally had men tell me I'm 'privileged' to be a native woman in Canada #Not even 'you're privileged to be light skinned' just outright 'you're privileged that it was CANADA doing the colonizing' so stfu #post

[despazito]

eastern european racism would blow your mind

#ftr if youre light skinned yes youll have privilege #but 'white' means fuckall in like the balkans

[ellapastoral]

This video of mine caused a lot of colorists to attack me in my comments, but I still stand by several of my points made in this video.

#ella pastoral #reverse colorism #colorism #light skin privilege #what is colorism #what is reverse colorism #colorism in the black community #colorism in the media #colorism in music #colorist #Youtube

[jennrypan]

It's kinda terrible that new age technology hasn't found a way to tatto bright colors on dark skin ://

I'm not even that dark but DAMN a bitch wants bright tattoos but it'll never be vibrant just BOOOOOO

Instead of tryna figire out how to send rich people to the bottom of the ocean or to space

Figure out how to draw pink on black skin >:((

#j.p speaks #everytime i see yt people im just envious idk. #pale skinned people in general #like you fuckers get privilege AND pretty tattoos?? #fuck you #and light colored eyes?? i wanna chew on your walls i hate you #personal

[thewingedwolf]

i hate the way people will say the most out of pocket nonsense about Latinos in the US and then act surprised when people say they’ve got some racism issues. “oh if it weren’t for the fact that people in the USA hate everyone with ancestry from Latin America, lock Latino children in cages even under democratic presidents, and regularly hop on tv to call all Latinos evil rapists and murderers, they’d all be considered white” yeah no SHIT if literally every aspect of how Latinos in the US are racialized was different, they would be racially categorized in a different way, that is a very intelligent thing to say about race relations and doesn’t at all exacerbate issues thanks you are so wise and educated and learned

#i followed someone on here that did this too. like ‘i can’t be racist against latinos bc a lot of them are white’ firstly if u start calling #italians dirty immigrants who have too many kids someone is going to rightly call u a bigot it doesn’t *matter* the race of the person if #you are purposefully engaging in bigotry against that person bc of their ethnicity! and SECONDLY #like…a lot of asians are light skinned a lot of indigenous people are white a lot of arabs look white etc etc #every group has a lot of variance bc people are varied. just bc a large swatch of arabs ‘look white’ doesn’t mean they are treated that way #it is not different with latinos. you are zeroing in on this specific group to justify your ‘i don’t hate latinos i just think they should #live with Their People and not with My People’ racism bc you think hating another minority will gain you privilege with white supremacy. #they are trying to coup several countries right now bc this country views latin america as it’s fucking war games playground do not talk to #me about privilege that latinos apparently have when my aunt was frantically telling students to keep their parents from work bc there was #a fucjing ice raid going on in the city!!!!!!!! fuck you genuinely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #rani makes text posts no one will read #also the way people will pretend like latinos are the *only* voting block of poc that vote conservative. EVERY SINGLE VOTING BLOCK DOES THIS #TO SOME EXTENT. YES EVEN YOURS SHUT THE FUCK UP SHUT UP YOU MORON #COME AND ACTUALLY INTERACT WITH THE BORICUAS AND MEXICANOS AND CUBANOS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD BEFORE SPOUTING OFF ABOUT THEIR WHITE PRIVILEGE #L O O K AT THE WAY THE COPS TREAT US THE GOVERNMENT TREATS US OUR NEIGHBORS *LIKE YOU* TREAT US #THEN YOU CAN RUN YOUR MOUTH

[holyviolence]

crazy to see some black ppl say that because asians dont experience antiblackness that we benefit from white supremacy. no we dont wtf. asians also experience discrimination.. like yeah ofc we will never understand being black bc we arent, but white ppl dont treat us as white bc we arent. its not as binary as u think. literally not that black and white

#like u have Got to see the difference between the privilege of light skin vs the privilege of Being White. #yeah theyre linked but just bc someone is lightskinned doesnt make them white. wtf!!!! #alsoooo you have to be specific bc 'asian' is not just east asia. what abt southeast asia where they have darker skin huh. theyre white??? #like come on. #sorry dont mind me. im watching video essays and i dont want to reply to stupid comments but i do want to vent

[sandersgrey]

Painting "No One Knows Im Trans" on the back of my jacket while explaining to my sister that yea i know we live in the country that most kills trans people but if i die i die

#alex wont shut up #two things: #first im small and light skinned and look like im 12 #so people tend not to feel threatened by me #ive never had anyone be queerphobic to me in public #which leads to my second point: #im tired of waiting for the shoe to drop #poking hard at the sole #im in a position of privilege and ill use it to make the public a lil bit safer for other trans people #and if it shows where the limit lies #well #i already go to therapy anyway

[jackienautism]

Literally hate that dedue, the only dark skin team mate you get is so sub servient to a white male character and I feel like no talks about this,

hmm you're. absolutely right. i never actually thought abt it like that before. it really DOES give off white savior type shit... i know dimitri's whole thing is trying to get dedue to FINALLY see him as an equal, but youre right. the implications of it are very... bad. esp when it couldve been ANY other character in the game, but they chose to pick the black man? esp ESP when lorenz in one of the beginning chapters says that some nobility bullshit probably is even worse than slavery? like. lets be for real

also? i never rly thought abt it until now but like. of COURSE the regions outside of fodlan (almyra, duscur, etc) all have some sort of .... conflict for lack of a better word w/ the white man from the church right? of course theres people LIKE ingrid in faerghus that disdain people of duscur due to what happened. and of course people of the alliance are weary of almyrans too. LIKE. of COURSE realistically racism is going to exist, but to have both places have such huge conflicts and be portrayed as the "Evil" towards the primarily white area is a bit ............. bad. it's bad. fire emblem needs to be better. adding one person of color per house isnt going to magically make the game's own racism disappear. doesn't matter how much "discussion" they have surrounding it either, theres still bias and prejudice seen in the game itself

like they rly gave petra an irish last name? making people doubt that brigid is most certainly inspired by polynesia? they clearly did their research when designing her, so why didnt they do more when naming? it just doesn't make any sense.

and with shamir? she's from dagda but... what IS dagda meant to be? they just say shes from a foreign place and refuse to elaborate. but i suppose that's just petty of me to bring up, its just somethign that's always bothered me

and you're right that no one really talks about it. /I/ certainly havent seen much discussion surrounding it, but then again i dont necessarily go out of my way to search for it. but yeah. it deserves to be criticized

and maybe all that i talk abt doesnt even matter or its not a big deal or whatever but like. whatever man. i sometimes just want people of color to just exist in my silly fantasy video game. without Racism and the change everyone has to go through being their like. main arc

#mine #text #asks #anon #fire emblem #fire emblem three houses #does any of this make sense? sorry if it doesnt #and sorry if its not even something to make a fuss over. i just. idk #i love fire emblem so much but they have such a long way to go lmao #esp seeing that their company ISNT white! #they obv have light skinned privilege (as do I) but. yeah #they included japanese characters quite nicely in fates #but of course once it comes to the darker skinned characters. all hell breaks loose #my FE tag #FE #FE3H #my thoughts

[thatspookyagent]

LMAO if you were raised in and or were born in a country that has colorism so deeply ingrained into it, that folks that are actually light and or have the slightest tan, would be considered/called "dark" and get called black (or anything adjacent to that in y'all's native language(s)), you should NOT be the ones to deny colorism (or anti-Blackness for that matter) within your home country (or globally), excuse it, or say that it simply doesn't exist or "isn't that bad".

Cause truth is even if folks who aren't considered or seen as dark wherever they go in the world, are getting mad shit for having tanned or LIGHT brown skin, you know that colorism run DEEP where you from for it to be effecting people who are honestly aren't even getting the extreme brunt of it in the first place (at least from a global perspective) or even have privilege over those considerably darker than themselves. So close ya mouths and stop being ahistorical about your own countries history & issues, just so you can shut down conversations about colorism. You look goofy. -_-

#colorism #racism #antiblackness #gaslighting #poc #light skin privilege #light skinned privilege #Yeah this about Latin America and East Asia to be specific #Not that they're the only countries that this post can apply to #That just instantly come to my mind #Since Tenoch Huerta is called and considered dark within his community when he not even near Lupita shade- #Same with Namjoon being considered dark within his own home country- #Like if those two are dark or moreno then what's the majority of the Black Panther cast to those two countries LMAO

[versacethotty]

kelly rowland draggings are effective immediately‼️

#coke brown praise in 2022? #damn ​light skin privilege work for everyone but tinashe it seems

[niallsblckgirlfriend]

I think Megan and Zendaya and other light skin or biracial bitches bother me so much because they are so often the face of black women. They get all the sympathy and praise and love and adoration and called brave. But dark skin women aren’t seen that way. We are meant to be strong independent. We are aggressive and never given praise for being brave. We are literally pushed aside and forgotten about.

Example. Look at the media right now. We have Megan and Megan. One is being called brave for sticking up for her family. Meanwhile the other is having her sexual history aired out because no one believes she WAS SHOT by a man. No one believes she’s a victim. she got ont he stand the other day and not a single person was going on about how “brave” she is. But they were giving her praise for her “viola Davis” wig. And yet the light skin Megan has gotten nothing but praise for saying “I’ve never felt like a black woman” and other weird shit about being biracial. How brave she is. How strong she is for going through sooooo much. Like being treated BLACK for the first time in her life? What a feet. To finally get the treatment of a darker women. How brave she is for dealing with the tough reality of race. For the first time in her 35+ years of life. Like????? WHAT

I don’t know man the older I get the more angry I get and more frustrated I become because as a darker black women. I’m literally not seen. I’m invisible and my pain doesn’t matter.

#like I hate light skin bitches and biracial bitches SO MUCH #because they will claim to understand their privilege #BUT CRY TO A DARK SKIN GIRLS FACE #LIKE BABY WHY ARE YOU CRYING ABOUT YOUR LIFE TO SOMEONE who’s got it worse off than you?!?! #like be quite #this wasn’t meant to be this king I just needed to get my thoughts out

[gianniisantetokounmpo]

Sometimes I hate my friends

#when i said dark skinned people are not privileged like light skinned people across cultures they were like no??? that's impossible 😭 wtf #delete later

[theblondehexgirl]

nobody cares but like. idk i’m not having fun in the tag at ALL the past week or whenever the leaks came out. everybody has a right to be angry and i absolutely am not giving those two writers any grace for how they wrapped up marwa’s storyline. but i guess i’m just frustrated that the things i love/seek out for escapism get tainted by real world things like racism & misogyny bcs of certain storyline implications (and obviously racism and misogyny exist in universe, but it was never something one has to actively think about in the context of the show.) and idk, it makes me feel fatigued and defeated bcs as a person of color i can’t just put the thinkpieces down and go back to living a life of white privilege, you know? this rant is going nowhere basically i’m just bummed that i have to think abt shitty things that affect me in the context of a show i rly love

#stupid dumb terribly articulated rant #and no one cares whatever like genuinely just need this off my chest #but lord am i tired #and i wish they’d never made that writing decision with marwa #i literally don’t even care about what nandor did like it’s genuinely just those two white men wriyets #like damn. i love coming on here to be happy abt this show #and now everything is so negative #and i’m feeling really drained #bcs 99% of my day i’m thinking about how i’m being perceived in any given situation as a POC #despite being very light skinned which is obviously a privilege #but regardless #it’s exhausting when these things inevitably make it into fandom discourse bcs of poor writing choices #and then i don’t have a place to be safe from it #and if ur comments abt the marwa thing are just gonna be performative then y’all can keep that #it’s truly just the implications of the way marwa went away #but again i still love the show deeply #and this one mistake doesn’t make it irredeemable #but i also cannot sit in the negativity bcs that’s something i already have to worry about on a daily basis #anyways #i’m rambling #talking to myself #wwdits #frustration

[buckttommy]

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#the intersection between pretty privilege and lightskin privilege because light skin is seen as inherently prettier/more beautiful than #dark skin is simply Not talked about enough tbh #obviously lightskin people are still Ultimately viewed as POC and that inherent LACK of privilege still exists in a racial society #BUT light skin ppl do have more of an advantage over dark skin ppl #and that's just the way it is