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ethiopienne:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

stfuandlistenwhitepeople:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

akagoldfish:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

White people don’t really try to fight racism, all they’ve been doing the past hundred years is making the tiniest allowance to get the greatest return.

First it’s overt: “You’re a nigger, you’re not allowed into my restaurant/school/water fountain/whatever the fuck.”

People didn’t like that, so they toned it down: “We’ll put you in jail, we’ll deny you jobs, we’ll have police stalking you everywhere, we’ll give you heavier sentences for the same crime, we’ll attack the poor and screw a couple of white people to get at you.”

Obviously, that’s not working very well either, people have found it out and are speaking out.

Now it’s “social justice”. Under the guise of acceptance for all, it’s basically come down to what white people think is acceptable and what they don’t. And if you don’t fit into that whitewashed mold (and many PoC who have their own culture and language and ways of handling things don’t)?

“You’re oppressing me.”
“You’re triggering me.”
“You’re denying my identity.”
“You’re using oppressive language.”

It’s the perfect way to emotionally manipulate people who are some of the most shit on, stressed, and put upon people in society, who most of the violence attacks, into making them feel bad that they might actually be oppressing you by using words they created to protect themselves against them.

Bloody brilliant.

This is perhaps the main reason (white) social justice activists, be it on tumblr or in real life sketch me out. The very use of the word “justice” in this way gives me pause. What good is social justice in a society where justice has been systematically defined and enacted so as to favor the dominate ideology, only siding with the marginalized when the gulf between principle and practice becomes to large to simply rationalize or ignore?

Social justice would seem to be nothing more than a way to ‘philosophize disgrace’ and prevent the revolutionary destruction of the social order which uses its justice as a tool to oppress and marginalize

I didn’t even think of it that way, but you’re right. Justice has been notoriously used to refer to the spoils gained by the winner, hasn’t it?

So where does it go from here?

I think the first thing is that it needs a new turn of phrase.

Instead of “Social Justice”, let’s call it “Social Upturning”. I thought of “Uprooting” at first, but that sounds too violent.

I actually like uprooting because it sounds violent. Because I think that’s necessary. White people play that language game, let’s take them to task on OUR rules.

I like this.