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 10:27 pm (UTC)Since almost everyone is trained to be "nice to the poor cripples," visibly disabled people get "oppression with a smile" all the time. Makes. me. crazy.
It doesn't matter if a person "means well;" when they paste on a "kindly" smile and nod and say, "oh, we don't serve people like you here" I'm ready to roll over their toes.
A M Baggs at Ballastexistenz explains why "but he's a *good* person..." is worse than useless when it comes to calling a person to account for their oppressive beliefs and actions. (Warning: The comment thread reflects some long standing arguments in her particular community: instructive, but painful.)
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Wed, Aug. 1st, 2007 09:15 am (UTC)