i’ve seen this term quite a few times in my activist life.
Social privilege is a privilege that refers to other privileges and how these privileges impact interaction with other people, making friends and the like.
These privileges include but aren’t limited to …
Yes, these all do affect interaction with others!
I recently discovered this article, and it is so problematic.
Trigger warning: audism, phonocentrism, ableism
Continue reading Article: “America must confront hearing loss”
TW: mention of rape, colonialism
I recently wrote about respectability politics. The situation symbolized by #OregonUnderAttack is an excellent demonstration of what I mean.
When marginalized people are viewed in prejudiced ways and privileged people in superior ways, a lot of strange things happen.
In this case, nothing is happening to the White people who are shutting down a US Federal government building. Nothing. Zero. It’s seen as a peaceful protest.
Yet, when Black people try to do the same thing – peacefully shut down cafes and malls – they are arrested.
Why?
Black people are seen as criminal.
Anything Black people do is seen as criminal.
Even Black people existing is criminal.
But White people have done criminal things to Black peoples, Indigenous peoples and other peoples of color globally. Historically to the present day, they have done these things to us – and continue to do so everyday:
Therefore, White people are criminal.
They are not viewed this way because of White supremacy. They say they are not criminal, that imperialism has improved the world for the better, etc, but that is not true.
Though most people don’t realize it, actions like “cleaning,” “typing,” and on and on have multiple steps.
Removing dust from the floor
Typing (with vision)
See these multiple steps? The extent to which people perceive multiple steps in a specific larger action is a spectrum. Most people perceive a larger action as a single step, but not all do. Indeed, it can be difficult to do certain things if you’re Disabled because you cannot do certain substeps very well or at all. Or, you may not be able to process those substeps.
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Yesterday, while I was in a hospital waiting for paratransit after my appointment, someone decided to type on my communication device without any prompting from me that it was OK to type. Don’t do this. And I don’t mean speaking to me, but something to show that you want to use it. Not just shocking me and suddenly you’re there typing right away.
Edit (Jan 1/2016 at 2:31 pm ET): See these tweets for addition.
Welcome to 2016!
These things are bullshit.
Everyone sees race.
Don’t claim that you are these or you will be ignored by me as you clearly don’t care about me.
This term implies that “racial unity” is a good thing.
But let’s look again:
racial unity.
This is two words, racial and unity.
Racial means “of or pertaining to race.”
Unity means “the state of being united or joined as a whole.”
So, can we have all the races be united or joined as a whole?
Well, race is a hierarchical system that makes white people superior, and everyone else inferior in various ways.
Can there be real racial unity in context of this race reality I just outlined? Nope!
Therefore, racial division is necessary for race to exist.
So using the term “racial division” to imply “racial unity” being necessary is bullshit, because race was created and inherently designed to divide.
Race itself is the issue, not “racial division” or the lack of “racial unity.”
I have been seeing many posts lately around the rape culture that is ever existent in the Black community, especially amongst – but not limited to – Black cisgender heterosexual men.
Let’s be clear: RAPE CULTURE IS NOT OUR MAKING AS BLACK PEOPLE. We didn’t create it.
We must stop defending rapists.
We must create liberation for all Black people.
We must stop perpetuating rape culture.
Oh, and by the way we didn’t create sexism either. Let’s stop perpetuating sexism.