Not Against Progress
The majority of the anti-SJ community on Tumblr is not against Social Justice. On the contrary, they’re merely against using the guise of “Social Justice” to:
1). Issue death threats against those who disagree with you.
2). Use it as an excuse to be racist towards white people.
3). Use it as an excuse to be sexist towards men.
4). Use it as an excuse to hate cisgendered people.
5). Destroy the intended meaning of terms like “cultural appropriation”, “privilege”, and “tone policing”
6). Reframe all issues into those that meet your particular agenda.
Most of us want a better world. We just don’t want to reach it by being horrible human beings and assholes.
She said "tranny" in a video she made years and years back.
That’s obviously worthy of death threats and calling the social justice police omfg so problematic.
Pft. As if that couldn’t be addressed by a few private messages or public comments. She seems like a nice enough person that she would pull the video or promptly apologize. Shit on a triscuit, I can appreciate peoples’ passion, but they need to apply it in the right places.
When a POC dissents it does not meant that they are upholding oppression.
I’ll admit that sometimes they are. Think Joe Oliver. He’s free to dissent but so much of what he said upholds a lot of nonsense. It’s inescapble.
But there are times when dissent does not equate to internalized oppression or white identification. That term is getting thrown around way too often and frankly it sickens me.
The logic can’t be white people do this, so if you do it, you must worship whiteness openly. Or you worship whiteness without even knowing that you worship whiteness. That is too simple and too flawed.
It is difficult to escape the prisons of racism, sexism, etc. Somehow, it all has a way of creeping into everything that we do. It’s beyond unfortunate.
With that being said, it is possible to have a different opinion without being anti-*insert oppressed group* if you are a member of that oppressed group. I think dissent with “minority” groups is necessary. It shows that “minority” groups are not monoliths. Dissent is healthy.
An ingroup member critiquing something is not the same as an outgroup member butting in. I feel that people don’t recognize that enough. When I dissent or have an unpopular opinion. I speak as an individual and as a member of a “minority” group or groups. It doesn’t mean that I am trying to identify with whiteness, masculinity, or heteronormative behaviors.
I also find it interesting that passive aggressiveness is a behavior that equates to white identifying. Really? So only white people can be passive aggressive? So because I’m not outrightly aggressive I’m not black enough or black woman enough? That’s odd.
I personally don’t feel the need to be outrightly aggressive to get my point across. It’s rare for me to be aggressive and/or straight up belligerent. I’m past that. i rarely use profanity in my posts. That’s just my style. Doesn’t it mean that I frown on “minority” bloggers who do use profanity? No. Because it is their blog and I understand why they do it.
Yes we are shaped by a flawed society. But that doesn’t mean that we cannot have individual perspectives. And if those perspectives happen to be similar to things that oppressors have said, it doesn’t mean that the dissenter is internalizing. I think folks fail to realize that they are still speaking as a member of their ingroup.
What annoys me the most is when folks disagree with you but then go on to belittle you. Why? What do you get out of that? Why poke fun at what someone says? Now I’m not gonna shed tears over that because I’m me and I have other things to cry about. But aren’t you contributing to a bullying culture? Don’t forget that behind a blog there is a person. Someone dissents, you insult them, make fun of their opinions and you don’t know what that person is dealing with. It could be the straw that breaks a tired camel’s back.
Agreeing to disagree shouldn’t be reserved for our friends or those bloggers we are familiar with.
What irks me the most is that I have only experienced this type of behavior from other black women bloggers. That is sad on too many levels.
Hopefully, I will find the time to rework this rant and expound on it some more.
Rant to be continued.
Laci Green is basically a perfect example of how hypocritical tumblr is. The short of it is that Laci said something kinda wrong headed in one of her videos and the SJWs basically threw a shit fit worse than if Grey Delisle and Daniel Tosh did a stand-up set together about it, complete with progressive things like death threats, rape threats and general violence being wished on her. Pity how White Privilege doesn't stop anonymous assholes eh? Ain't that right Anita?
She sounds fabulous. Anyone that tumblr social justice dislikes is generally worth being checked out.
Also, more Laci asks.
There’s maybe like one or two things I don’t agree with Laci Green on, but none of them come to mind. She’s totally not one of those super-feminists, but more of a sex-positive person. She also stands up for male rights like body integrity surrounding circumcision.
Hmmm go on.
Laci Green is a lot less crazy feministy and more about sex and body positivity. I can’t stand Anita, but I thin Laci does a lot of good and makes up for the education that a lot of people lack from abstinence only sex ed.
Yeah, Anita seems to be very sex negative. I watched one of Laci’s videos and she seems like a dynamite gal. Cool. Cool cool cool.
So my friend had sex with this guy not too long ago, because she was really drunk, and she wished she hadn’t, and when she told my I was horrified. The first thing that popped into my mind was “holy shit, did my friend get raped?” and I mentioned it and she told me that he was drunk too and that she’s the one who initiated it and, honestly because of Tumblr and the mindset this website has given me, I still thought, “That doesn’t matter, you were still drunk and he had no right, that’s still rape because you were drunk so you couldn’t consent.
But like
What I didn’t consider was the fact that he was drunk too.
So wasn’t she technically raping him as well?
I feel like people are so quick to jump and make the woman the victim that they don’t even consider the fact that the man may not have consented if he’d been sober, either.
Why is the man the only one who’s expected to have self control?
That doesn’t seem right to me.
I don’t know.
omg people need to calm the fuck down. wow.
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