Ok, pissed off now
Mon, Jul. 30th, 2007 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterYup, 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.
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.
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Tue, Jul. 31st, 2007 12:06 pm (UTC)And of course "other people do it too..." I think something that happens is that a lot of liberal/would-be enlightened white people have a shitload of guilt, and want to not be the only assholes in the world who are being blamed (feel they are being blamed) for having done something rotten.
(God knows I feel like I would be less automatically suspect if the Cherokee and Ukrainian percentage in my ancestry were reversed.)
But of course the thing is that it's not about blame. It's not about the balancing act, makin' sure everybody gets thier fair dollop of responsibility. It's about not making racist/privileged assumptions.
People who have had white/male/middle-class/heterosexual privilege all their lives don't recognize it for what it is, how powerful and pervasive it is, and are simultaneously afraid of losing it. And of course the goal (or what I see as the goal) is not to strip people of rights; it's to make sure that everybody has access to the same rights.