#white fragility

[pinkieloveheartpastel]

tw: white supremacy, white fragility, assault mention aka being coughed on like I’m trash, other exhausting nonsense.

You can color your hair rainbows all you want to, wear all kinds of pins with “black lives matter”, and “equality” and “fuck the police”, “down with the system” or whatever the fuck with all the rainbow socks and all that shit, but if you’re still holding onto your white supremacist ideals and behavior, and you’re going out of your way to treat black people like shit (like this white blue-haired mf who coughed in my direction as soon as they got close to me, I will never forget that.), if you continue to silence black voices, and other marginalized voices, and cry white tears when you’re confronted, and forced to examine your whiteness, if you immediately jump to defending your behavior and hiding behind your white fragility, fuck you and fuck all those fake ass pins that you don’t fucking believe in. It is a fucking COSTUME. A PERFORMANCE. And I cannot STAND performative activism!!!

#antiblackness. #white fragility #performative activism #assault mention tw #tw assault #physical assault

[odinsblog]

#politics #palestine #gaza #queen elizabeth #uju anya #israel #colonialism #compassion #oppression #gaslighting #revisionist history #whitewashing history #imperialism #history #white fragility

[liberalsarecool]

The South lost the Civil War. They lost their ability to feel shame. They combine that shamlessness with insecure feelings of seeing others thriving despite wilfully injesting decades of prejudices/bigotry and arrive at MAGA cellar.

#white fragility #slave states think it was antifa

[hussyknee]

Whites and their liberal bootlickers are an infection. The settler is the colonizer is the genocider. Rejecting the most brutal form of direct violence means nothing when you refuse to divest from the structures created to accommodate you by invading and occupying them.

A settler's very existence is violent because they cannot exist without the colonial power that protects them. The only way to make it NOT violent is by dismantling the colonial power. Until then, your job is either to fucking leave, or work on educating yourself, amplifying the voices of the colonized, and accepting that armed resistance is a consequence of your existence. Holding placards over your head and yelling a lot at the people propagating and safeguarding the status quo that you benefit from doesn't merit you extra cookies anymore than accepting the softest punishment from a carceral system designed to torture the colonized to the point of death.

And if that makes you ask yourself "But...but I'm a settler! I'm white privileged! Does that mean MY existence is inherently violent to—" yes. It is. Take your unthreatened, unterrorized self to your whole and unbombed house with power and water and heat and food and your intact family, sit your ass down with the tub of ice cream you can afford and cry into it.

“There is no middle ground anymore. There is no way of supporting the liberal occupier, the progressive ethnic cleanser and the leftist genocider.”

—Ilan Pappé

#white fragility #white privilege #free palestine #free gaza #occupation #israeli occupation #settler colonialism #colonization #white supremacy #ethnosupremacy #decolonization #decolonize palestine #liberal zionism #anti zionism #fuck israel #glory to the resistance #colonialism #knee of huss #zionazis

[icedsodapop]

I'm so sick and tired of seeing Oppenheimer stans going "bUt JaPaNeSe ImPeRiALiSm" amd bringing up the rape of Nanking in response to valid criticism of the film and its politics. And as someone whose country was actually occupied by the Japanese in WW2 and is Chinese, I wish these people a very "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

Do you know how fucking disgusting and manipulative that is? I can bet my fucking dollar that the people circlejerking over Oppenheimer arent the type of people who cared about the victims of Japanese Occupation but now they magically give a fuck about people like my ancestors becos Japanese and Indigenous people are calling the film problematic

#barbenheimer #oppenheimer #films #anti christopher nolan #white fragility #us imperialism

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #white people #racism #white fragility #food #aapi month

[antifainternational]

#antifa #aggrieved entitlement #white fragility #white privilege #privilege #entitlement

[describe-things]

new meme format.

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#described images #describes memes #accessible memes #meme template #meme format #white fragility #fandom racism #fandom misogyny #fandom ableism #fandom bigotry #klandom #memes #new meme template #fragility scale meme #fragility meme #fandom fragility #bigoted fragility #media analysis #media criticism #anti-intellectualism #anti intellectualism #Fallout TV #Fallout show #Fallout TV show

[crazycatsiren]

Witches of color: "Literally all we ask for are respect and listening to us."

White witches: *just can't handle it*

#witches of color #witchblr #witch community #white fragility #cultural appropriation #closed practices #white people's children

[emmellas]

rejoice, rejoice (performative white liberalism is once again being shown no mercy in the most unrelenting media damnation of it this horror-loving black woman has seen since 'get out') !!

'the curse' is the first white-helmed production i have ever seen that relentlessly and unapologetically interrogates the insidious nature of white, performative liberalism. rather than appealing to the white man's ego, it aims to make the offending party as uncomfortable as possible. no space is allowed for white fragilities. to the contrary, the tv series indignantly elucidates and condemns the acts of racism, gentrification, classism, and other forms of bigotry hidden under the guise of liberal niceties and ideology to garner social praise and adoration perpetrated by purported white allies.

i was reminded of my first experience watching 'get out' (2017) within MINUTES of beginning the pilot episode: feelings of sheer vindication and validation from watching performative white people FINALLY be stripped of the approving savior trope most pieces of media put forth by white people embrace. instead, whitney and asher siegel, the show's ostensibly benevolent home improvement show power couple (think chip and joanna gaines but more environmentally conscious and philanthropic...or so they say) who, beneath the guise of performativity, seek only to serve themselves financially and socially, are portrayed as the monsters they truly are. returning to 'get out,' this film also sought to elucidate the way a marginalized group- black people- experiences said marginalization through implicit manifestations engendered from white "etiquette," as best encapsulated by the sunken place.

it was wonderful to see the ever stupendous, inimitable emma stone (i see a second oscar and first emmy in her very near future!) and incredible nathan fielder commit themselves fully to the exposé of white-perpetrated atrocities of the self-proclaimed liberal variety, both in front of the camera and behind the scenes as executive producers, the latter also as a writer and creator. one must actively de-center their whiteness and place their ego ("but not ALL white people!!") aside to deliver such an accurate performance and play a role in developing a show of this nature. many of their white counterparts fail to truly garner the values of social justice needed to undertake these responsibilities.

so from a black woman who loves the premise of the horror/thriller genre being utilized as a creative medium to expose the true horrors of society- systemic oppression- shout out to everyone involved in this riveting piece of desperately needed social critique.

#emma stone #nathan fielder #the curse #racism #gentrification #social critique #social satire #social commentary #social justice #jordan peele #get out #tv analysis #film analysis #horror #psychological thriller #thriller #performative activism #performative allyship #white fragility #white saviorism #white savior complex

[antiradqueer]

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#“it’s because i’m white isn’t it” shut up bro omfg 💀💀💀 #anti radqueer #racism #white fragility

[odinsblog]

Lmao. Twitter user georgina4781 is like, “I hope future generations judge you by the same social standards” — aka: being against white supremacy, Apartheid & imperialism that destroyed the lives of literally MILLIONS of Black and indigenous peoples. And they said that shit with their whole entire chest out! You and your pesky “modern standards” of …. *checks notes* …. not enslaving entire countries and depleting said countries of valuable material resources.

Look, Imma let everyone in on a little secret here: throwing down the, “BUT THEY DIDN’T KNOW ANY BETTER BACK THEN” excuse is 💯bullshit. But white people can be counted on to stay eating it up. Because that false framing serves a purpose.

Are we really and truly expected to believe that absolutely noooobody back then had any inkling that things like slavery, colonialism and Apartheid were evil? Nobody at all back then knew it? C’mon now. See? More “white innocence” bullshit. You think Jeff Bezos doesn’t know that people dying in Amazon warehouses is easily preventable and him not taking precautions to avoid more deaths is “bad”? People know wrong now, and they knew it back then. Still not sold? Okay, how about this: if nothing else, the Black and indigenous people being colonized knew it and expressed their views, but colonizers intentionally ignored them and did not listen to them. And I’m pretty sure we won’t need to search very hard through history books to find white people who knew it was wrong too. Just because their voices did not prevail doesn’t mean that “everyone back then” somehow did not know better. Many knew better and simply did. not. care. Kinda like Jeff Bezos right now.

When we accept the false premise that “they just didn’t know any better back then,” we are allowing a form of whitewashing history to happen — we are allowing today’s racism deniers to deftly delete the agency of colonizers, and replace their cruelty and greed, with innocence. And POOF! Just like that, the myth of white innocence is maintained, and the cruelty and greed behind all imperialism is parsed, equivocated and whitewashed away into something less heinous and more palatable.

And the thing white people seem to call “bringing up the shitty parts of history” is literally what everyone else, under ordinary circumstances, refers to as the truth, but apparently everyone is supposed to stay quiet so that colonizers and their beneficiaries can continue whitewashing history and continue pretending that it wasn’t really that bad, or advise everyone to just “get over it” because was “a long time ago,” or eventually argue that it never happened at all.

I’ll let you in on another secret: white people who want to downplay & deny racism love to throw racism into this far away safe space called, “the past”. I’m reminded of an old saying that goes something like, “your grandfather may have chopped down the tree, but we are still suffering from no shade today because of his actions.” An incredibly bad paraphrase on my part, but the point is, Uju Anya is a survivor of war and genocide caused by recent colonialism, and the person who was instrumental in that - in chopping down the proverbial shadetree - just died. Uju Anya is still experiencing the loss of diaspora caused by Queen Elizabeth’s kingdom, and telling her how to process her very real and very current grief is so presumptuous that I would need to live a million years as a white person to even begin to comprehend how presumptuous that is.

White fragility is a hell of a thing. But demanding that the still-living and still-impacted descendants of imperialism just shut up so that European whites don’t have to be reminded of their queen’s active role in colonialism … that’s strait up bullshit.

Apparently American conservatives aren’t the only ones upset with honestly talking about theories critical of racist systems.

Sending out much love to Uju Anya, who is now having Jeff fucking Bezos, one of the richest white men in history, and others harass her and lecture her about “kindness” and “respectability politics”.

#politics #uju anya #queen elizabeth #white fragility #whitewashing history #revisionist history #imperialism #colonialism

[rjalker]

*reading from a script* This just in, everyone! If your fantasy setting has well thought out world-building that makes sense and is interesting and complex, that means um...hold on let me see here *checks notes* it says you're not actually autistic, *squints at notes* because racist autistic people think that the world's most basic writing tips for how not to be accidentally racist with your metaphors for autistic people and for having good world building disqualifies you from being autistic... *scratches head in bewilderment* oh also the racist is claiming it's impossible for anyone who's not a rich white man to write fiction of any kind, but also...is telling me I shouldn't waste my time not being racist because it's taking away from my time to write? Yeah it doesn't make any sense. *sets the racist on fire*

#actuallyautistic #actually autistic #racism #classism #ableism #long post #misogyny #coraloctopus #white fragility

[icedsodapop]

Remembering the time when I posted about Dev Patel being called ugly as a teenager and how racism played a part in that, only to get bombarded with White pple in the reblogs going, "in what world is Dev Patel ugly??? He's objectively handsome???" I know he is hot, I have been a "Dev Patel is a leading man" truther since I was 10. I need yall to shut up becos that wasn't the main point and it's not about you right now?? 🙄🙄

#dev patel #racism #white fragility

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #racism #white guilt #white supremacy #white fragility #circusfaery33 #reparations

[moonlarked]

idk how to phrase this in a way that 100% encapsulates how im feeling but i encourage white people like myself to go to therapy for mental issues surrounding white guilt and identity rather than shove all those feelings of self-loathing and guilt within themselves to eventually inflict upon undeserving people of color who are already dealing with enough shit.

like it is so so important to voice your feelings and be able to work through them healthily before they get worse and develop into serious mental issues. i have an anxiety disorder relating to my personal morality. it’s tough, but we have to work through it.

be kind to yourself, and don’t let your own guilt and fragility around race hurt yourself and others. learn to improve yourself in healthy ways. hell, talk to your own white family members and friends about race and have a shoulder to lean on that isn’t an emotional support person of color. listen to marginalized voices and learn to be uncomfortable and learn how to work through it in a way that allows you to love yourself.

that’s the most important part. the only way to truly love others is to first be able to love yourself.

#time to take my own advice ig #idk how long it’ll take #white guilt #self love #be kind to yourself #white fragility