Ok, pissed off now

[oyceter]

Yup, this is public; I am that pissed off.

I wasn't going to get involved, I swear I wasn't.

And then...

http://liviapenn.livejournal.com/473180.html?thread=6512732#t6512732

Because what the fucking fuck? Don't fucking throw the RAPE OF NANKING in my face when I am talking about white privilege. I just. I cannot type because WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?! My grandfather was in the Chinese Navy then, fighting against the Japanese. I have friends with relatives who grew up not speaking Taiwanese because of the occupation. My family left the fucking country and moved to Taiwan because of that war. Don't throw that in my face as a counter to white privilege and just fucking assume I haven't heard of it for some reason; you have no fucking idea.

Comments by people not on my flist are screened; everyone else feel free to comment, but please note I am REALLY FUCKING PISSED OFF about this. Don't be stupid. I will repost asshattery under a filter and mock, and I don't fucking care if you somehow think that's unfair.

Comments

am beginning to wonder if it holds a special place in the hearts of racism-deniers.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Of course it does.

Because if any living person of color, anywhere, in any country, has ever done something racist, then NOTHING ANY WHITE PERSON EVER DOES COUNTS.

Al Sharpton gave us whiteys a free pass forever. So, apparently, did Emperor Hirohito.

Re: am beginning to wonder if it holds a special place in the hearts of racism-deniers.

[oyceter]

*snorfles* What you said!

Re: am beginning to wonder if it holds a special place in the hearts of racism-deniers.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

I was about to say, 'Oh good, does the British Empire get a free pass, because, hey, Black Hole of Calcutta?' I could probably think of a few other examples, but, Duh, I don't think so, really.

There's a whole wide chasm between occasional atrocities perpetrated by members of one culture upon another, and the apparatus of institutionalised oppression and discrimination.

Re: am beginning to wonder if it holds a special place in the hearts of racism-deniers.

[oyceter]

There's a whole wide chasm between occasional atrocities perpetrated by members of one culture upon another, and the apparatus of institutionalised oppression and discrimination.

I am so boggled that people have been refusing to get this one point! Because.. yeah. What you said.