I’m not “cool”. Sorry.

Reblogged from anarchowario

socialjusticeally:

misanthropyforeveryone:

> I make a post about actual ableism

> Put it in the ableism tag

> Only people that pay attention to it follow me

> Proof that it’s a circlejerk

I noticed that. Are you surprised? The people on this site that frot themselves over ableism just care about the surge of smotion they feel after screaming about being offended.

Really? I thought they like the idea that they think they’re helping (without having to actually do anything, of course). If they’re doing it for e-props, or because they think it makes them “cool”, that’s a whole other level of psychological damage that I’m not qualified to work with.

Although it does remind me of the time I got zero likes/reblogs for a post I made about funding a refuge/rape crisis center for Native American women. Which contrasted nicely with the hundreds of notes/reblogs I got for criticizing the “feather hat on white girl sexualizes Native American culture” posts they keep making. 

*sigh*

Related: other social justice blogging habits which contradict themselves

(Source: blonde-swanson)

Tumblr Chemotherapy

Reblogged from extreme-irrelevancy

princessfuckingprivilege:

Casual ableism is trivializing actual ableism by referring to everything as ableism.

I would say the same about racism or sexism or anythingism. The tumblr machine is infected with it. A huge chunk of my blog is designed to be chemotherapy for that sort of thing.

Some time ago, for instance, I pointed out that the greatest problems facing Native Americans today is probably not stupid white girls wearing feather head-dresses, but the Native American  activist blogs all act as though it is. When made some posts about it, I was attacked in about as personal and vicious a manner as I ever have been on any issue. 

I don’t mind, of course. It’s usually fuel for some funny posts. 

Yo, social justice bloggers.

Reblogged from all-natural-gropius

bi-in-alberta:

Maybe, juuust maybe, the reason people hate your guts isn’t solely because of your race/gender/orientation/etc, but because you are constantly going on about abuse and trigger warnings while telling people to ‘kill themselves’ and ‘die in a fire.’ Just a thought.

Things I’ve actually seen in posts:

• Black bloggers ordering white people to shut the fuck up and “listen” while claiming that those same white people sharing their opinions are “silencing” them.
• Demanding that no one judge anyone by the colour of their skin, while claiming that white people’s opinions on racism are automatically worthless because of the color of their skin (and nothing else).
• Vigorously defending the right of all people to choose who they love for whatever reason, while denouncing those whose preferences lie away from LGBT people as “small-minded” or “oppressive”.
• Claiming that Native Americans are facing all sorts of racist and structuralist problems today while only ever complaining (or at least whining the loudest) about white girls wearing those feather hats.
• Defending the rights of free speech for everyone while almost violently pushing to eliminate certain words from the public discourse.

And so on. George Orwell had a term for this curious ability to keep mutually exclusive ideas in your head at the same time without falling over: doublethink. When psychologists eventually caught up with him, they called it cognitive dissonance, which if exposed can cause “surprise, dread, guilt, anger, or embarrassment”.

On tumblr, these feelings most frequently manifest in a stream of violent language, personal abuse, name-calling and so on, but never anything in the way of a sensible counter argument. A quick look through PostSatire’s posts will demonstrate what I mean.

If the poster has completely disappeared down the rabbit hole, it doesn’t result in empty, unpleasant language so much as a simple denial, again with nothing at all to back it up: “That’s not what I said,” when it clearly was, or “you’re twisting my words/taking them out of context,” when I’m clearly not, it’s all good stuff. This sort of defense is especially stupid in a medium like tumblr where anyone can just check back for themselves.

When I see a post like “I’m all in favor of free speech, but you should never say X Y or Z,” the sound of irony crashing around the poster is deafening.

But then again, this blog would be nothing without it. If you see these kinds of posts, and you’d like to see me rip them apart or just make fun of them, please let me know. That’s what PostSatire is for.

Native American Blues (reply)

Reblogged from apihtawikosisan

This is a reply to something mysteriously reblogged by reach-for-the-horizon as it if was his own. But I wrote it and I stand by it. I can only speak for myself, though.

apihtawikosisan:

Ah.  You aren’t “anything like the white man” yet you think it’s your place to tell us what the warbonnet should mean, and you believe you have the right to do as you please with no consequences because everything is a social construct.

I never said I wasn’t anything like the white man. I never said that I should tell you what the warbonnet should mean. It can mean whatever you like to you. I don’t care. Just don’t insist that it should mean the same thing to me. I also never said I should have the right to do as I please with no consequences, but I certainly assert the right to say as I please.

Funny.  Sounds exactly like “the white man” to me.  Your ” heart, [your] soul, and [your] spirituality” has absolutely squat to do with us, and you’ve made it clear you respect nothing about our actual spirituality, so why bring it up at all?

I have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t care about my heart or my soul or any of that gibberish.

Trust me, we don’t need another white saviour telling us what’s really important.  We actually live it.

If you are honestly telling me that the most pressing issue facing Native Americans today is the color of the skin of whoever is wearing a feathered hat, then I have to suspect that you are lying.

Stop being a disrespectful ass.  That’ll go a long way to addressing the systemic disrespect.

I don’t think I’m being disrespectful at all. That’s certainly not my intention, but you are free to get as offended as you choose, if you insist on feeling that way.

Believe what you like about your war bonnets, but DO NOT expect me to believe the same thing and DO NOT insist that I have to share your beliefs about, you know, anything. You would think that a Native American would be especially sensitive to how important this is for the functioning of a democratic society.

(Source: fueled-by-rage)