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@SG said:
That's some serious penmanship for someone who spends so much time on a computer. When I write with a pen it looks like someone broke my hands before I tried.
I am beautiful, strong, and intelligent.
I am a cis-bisexual black man.
Except for when I roleplay as a blonde german woman.
Edit: or as a female Japanese frost fairy.
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@Cirno You seem to be the one grumpy here, but I like the hand-writing. Very nice.
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Go tell all your white friends that you met a ravishingly beautiful black man who can write.
I can also draw and write stories.
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@Cirno Will do.
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@BigDaddyAmin said:
Really? Is that so? Seems like every time I turn on the news I am being told to feel guilty because I am white, heterosexual, monogamous, breed other white children, and I identify with the gender that was assigned to me at conception.
You know what? I hear this a lot, but seriously, this is so fucking dumb. Nobody (outside maybe a small fringe?) is literally telling anyone to feel guilty for being CIS-white-whatever, you're just being exposed to the disadvantages of anyone who isn't and feeling guilty, and because you don't know how to process your guilt you decide "outrage" is the correct response.
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I can't upvote this post enough.
I am sick unto death of people telling me about how white people are being browbeaten, which is not a fucking thing and never was.
ATTN WHITE PEOPLE: NOBODY IS ACTUALLY COMING FOR YOU.
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@Cirno said:
I am sick unto death of people telling me about how white people are being browbeaten, which is not a fucking thing and never was.
This really is a thing, though. It's just more subtle than people give it credit for. I'm a single white male, and I didn't think it was a thing either.
Until I started college.
All the scholarships that my parents could have had, or that I could have had if I had gone ten years ago? Gone. Giving money to single white males based on academics alone is socially taboo now. All the groups that are supposed to support students? Good luck trying to sit through one of those as a white guy without someone glaring daggers at you, including the people who are supposedly there to help. Don't you dare voice any of your actual opinions, rather than regurgitate what people tell you to, especially not as a polisci major. You will be cast out into the wilderness of academia, and your grades will start to mysteriously suffer. There is so much talk of "white privelege" it's ridiculous, even among people of different races that I went to school with, whose parents made more money than I did. They still accuse me of getting a better education than them, of having better things than they did (which is wholly laughable). Everything. Note, we went to the same school, had the same teachers, one of them even lived in the same part of town that I did -- in a house twice as big, and they got better grades than me.
The sheer saturation of this idea is astounding to me. Just because you're white doesn't mean you're somehow better off. That's rarely the case until you get up into talking about people with 9-digit savings accounts, and lots of those are just old money.
The law made us all equal decades ago, and in fact managed to grant a few groups special status by specifically declaring them "no touchy", but it seems like equality isn't what people are actually wanting. It's starting to sound an awful lot like people don't want equality so much as revenge for something that happened well before any of us were even born.
And the sad fact is, it's working. Thus all the spark-ups of outrage, etc. Where does that leave us, as a country?
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@Derp said:
The sheer saturation of this idea is astounding to me. Just because you're white doesn't mean you're somehow better off.
Dude, I really am sorry because in my experience it's not something that you can be told and you have to wait until you see it for yourself, but you really fucking are. I know people tell you this until they're blue in the face and I know you're probably sick of it, but if you're not aware that just being a white dude gives you some inherent advantages, it's just because you lack the life experience to know better, which to be honest is kind of a blessing in itself in a weird way.
Full disclosure, I am a white dude myself, but a lot of my immediate and extended family isn't and once it's there in your face you can't un-see it.
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I am just gonna leave this here.
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@Cirno said:
I am just gonna leave this here.
I'm stealing this to play on my own. White female single mom, and most of these still apply. The privilege. It's real.
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@Wizz said:
Dude, I really am sorry because in my experience it's not something that you can be told and you have to wait until you see it for yourself, but you really fucking are. I know people tell you this until they're blue in the face and I know you're probably sick of it, but if you're not aware that just being a white dude gives you some inherent advantages, it's just because you lack the life experience to know better, which to be honest is kind of a blessing in itself in a weird way.
Full disclosure, I am a white dude myself, but a lot of my immediate and extended family isn't and once it's there in your face you can't un-see it.
See, I'm going to have to call bullshit on this. Being a white dude has never, ever given me any sort of special advantage. If anything, it's been detrimental to me in a number of ways, because I don't qualify for some of the things that I otherwise would if I were of a different race, gender, or ethnicity.
But please, prove me wrong. Tell me how being white has bettered me in some way above and beyond my peers? People make a lot of empty assumptions, especially about the lives of others, without any sort of actual basis for it outside of 'well the media told me it's a thing, so it has to be true'.
I'm not financially better off than anyone else. I fall well below the poverty line. I'm not academically better off than anyone else, save in situations where I've worked my fucking ass off to get there, devoting upwards of sixteen hours a day to school, and everything I've managed to do has been on student loans and pell grants, plus whatever I can scrape by working the minimum-wage job for the school I managed to land because I work my ass off academically.
But yeah, I'm just ballin' based on nothing more than the color of my skin. So go on, show everyone how.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@Wizz said:
@Derp said:
The sheer saturation of this idea is astounding to me. Just because you're white doesn't mean you're somehow better off.
Dude, I really am sorry because in my experience it's not something that you can be told and you have to wait until you see it for yourself, but you really fucking are. I know people tell you this until they're blue in the face and I know you're probably sick of it, but if you're not aware that just being a white dude gives you some inherent advantages, it's just because you lack the life experience to know better, which to be honest is kind of a blessing in itself in a weird way.
Full disclosure, I am a white dude myself, but a lot of my immediate and extended family isn't and once it's there in your face you can't un-see it.
Nah bruh, people stared at him angrily once! He is totes oppressed, that's like slavery and the holocaust at the same time!
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@Derp said:
See, I'm going to have to call bullshit on this. Being a white dude has never, ever given me any sort of special advantage. If anything, it's been detrimental to me in a number of ways, because I don't qualify for some of the things that I otherwise would if I were of a different race, gender, or ethnicity.
The whole thrust of your argument is "Affirmative Action is bad!" Yeah, maybe. It's a gray area. You had to struggle a little harder to get into school? Aww man.
But please, prove me wrong. Tell me how being white has bettered me in some way above and beyond my peers?
I'm not financially better off than anyone else. I fall well below the poverty line. I'm not academically better off than anyone else, save in situations where I've worked my fucking ass off to get there, devoting upwards of sixteen hours a day to school, and everything I've managed to do has been on student loans and pell grants, plus whatever I can scrape by working the minimum-wage job for the school I managed to land because I work my ass off academically.
But yeah, I'm just ballin' based on nothing more than the color of my skin. So go on, show everyone how.
I am going to 100% guarantee you that no one has thrown a bottle at your head or screamed a racial slur at you for just trying to buy groceries. Or just for walking down the street. No one has denied you fucking housing, or told you or your partner to leave a public area because you held hands. This is DAILY for some of the people in my life.
EDIT: This originally ended with an insult and that's not appropriate. I am really sorry.
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@Wizz said:
@Derp said:
See, I'm going to have to call bullshit on this. Being a white dude has never, ever given me any sort of special advantage. If anything, it's been detrimental to me in a number of ways, because I don't qualify for some of the things that I otherwise would if I were of a different race, gender, or ethnicity.
The whole thrust of your argument is "Affirmative Action is bad!" Yeah, maybe. It's a gray area. You had to struggle a little harder to get into school? Aww man.
But please, prove me wrong. Tell me how being white has bettered me in some way above and beyond my peers?
I'm not financially better off than anyone else. I fall well below the poverty line. I'm not academically better off than anyone else, save in situations where I've worked my fucking ass off to get there, devoting upwards of sixteen hours a day to school, and everything I've managed to do has been on student loans and pell grants, plus whatever I can scrape by working the minimum-wage job for the school I managed to land because I work my ass off academically.
But yeah, I'm just ballin' based on nothing more than the color of my skin. So go on, show everyone how.
I am going to 100% guarantee you that no one has thrown a bottle at your head or screamed a racial slur at you for just trying to buy groceries. Or just for walking down the street. No one has denied you fucking housing, or told you or your partner to leave a public area because you held hands. So seriously, shut the fuck up dude.
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@Cirno said:
So I take it you won't be joining the "Asians for Black Lives Matter" group?
Fuck no.
Black lives matter. That is all. I don't need to join another group to support or advocate for another.
.“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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Are you still going to invite me to your big Asian family gatherings, though, oneesama?
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A big part of privilege is not what happens to you because you have it. It's what does NOT happen to you because you have it.
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@Cirno said:
Are you still going to invite me to your big Asian family gatherings, though, oneesama?
No.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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