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fandomshatepeopleofcolor · 2 months

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Just two tweets on why non-Black people really should not be using "Rest in Power" for the deaths of White people (even when they are allies for the cause):

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- mod sodapop

#antiblackness #aaron bushnell #free palestine #culture appropriation #white privilege

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b-0-ngripper · 5 months

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Real shit

#anti imperialism #antiblackness #white privilege #white supremacy

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icedsodapop · 5 months

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With this hellsite praising Hugh Grant for being vocal about his experience making Wonka, I feel like fandom needs to sit down and actually have a long, serious discussion about the double standard of praising White men like Hugh Grant and RPatz for dissing the projects they were in, while we crucify actors of color like John Boyega, Constance Wu and Rachel Zegler for even being vaguely negative. I'm not saying that Hugh Grant shouldnt even criticize his projects, he has every right to do so. But, this is a grace not applied to everyone.

#racism #fandom racism #white privilege

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intersectionalpraxis · 1 month

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"white people understand violent resistance when it protects them personally"

#feminist #social justice #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #current events #settler violence #settler colonialism #settler terrorism #us imperialism #resistance #united states #white privilege #white feminism #imperial feminism

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odinsblog · 1 year

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Why were media outlets not releasing Daniel Penny’s name, but doing a full data dump on everything they know about Jordan Neely??

I mean, I know why, but isn’t it supposed to be in the public interest to know the name of a person who committed murder, even if only “allegedly”? IF the NYPD ever gets around to arresting him and charging him with a crime, he will still get his day in court—unlike Jordan Neely, the man he murdered for the “crime” of having a bad day while being Black in public.

Daniel Penny has had an entire day or so to scrub his social media accounts of any information that might incriminate him or show any racist tendencies.

👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1654307060840890368.html

#jordan neely #daniel penny #blacklivesmatter #white privilege #journalism fail #media bias

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liberalsarecool · 3 months

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White male privilege keeps vile turds afloat.

#white privilege

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nonbinarymlm · 1 month

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The thing is, most people (in the US and Western countries at least, that’s where my experience is from) have some forms of privilege some forms of oppression. This isn’t saying everyone is equally oppressed and privileged, but most people have privilege in at least one way and oppression in at least one way.

And if you experience oppression in some ways and privilege, it’s much easier to see your oppression then you privilege.

Privilege is largely invisible to those who have it. Oppression grates against you all the time. So it’s much easier to see the forms of oppression you experience then the forms of privilege.

That’s why it’s so important for us all to listen to each other and not play Oppression Olympics. You can face very real oppression that really affects your life, and still learn a lot from other people who face other forms of oppression that you don’t. We have to listen to each other. In the queer community especially I think this is important, because there’s so many different ways to be oppressed and to be privileged.

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spaceshipsandpurpledrank · 8 months

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#talkin #tik tok #white privilege #white men

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alwaysbewoke · 1 month

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#The Daily Show #jon Stewart #donald Trump #Kevin O'Leary #white privilege #trump crimes #wtf

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whenmemorydies · 20 days

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Preliminary thoughts on The Bear, race, power and privilege

I’m a non-Black woman of colour who has spent all of my life in the west…so I’ve consumed a lot of television media that is produced by and for the white gaze. The most obvious way that gaze plays out is when people of colour are non-existent in a cast, or when they are included, are tokenistic, bit players.

A more insidious manifestation is where POC are cast to play parts that could just as easily be played by white folks: characters that have no interiority or external relationships related to their cultural identities, wider communities or individual or collective histories (for example, Mindy in The Mindy Project for most of its run, or the characters of colour in Season 1 of Bridgerton).

I've had some thoughts about how The Bear (thankfully) avoids tokenistic and "colour-blind" representation. I also have some thoughts about how the show models meaningful allyship. I'm so keen to discuss this with folks and hear what others think about it too.

Unambiguous and unapologetic

The Bear is confined in its universe, particularly in season 1 where it’s focus is tightly bound to the physical location of The Beef as the setting for almost every scene. Episodes of The Bear are generally not very long, so time is precious (every second really does count). These factors necessarily limit how deep we can get into each character. But the show is so good at drawing on different means of communication: images, lighting, score, soundtrack, phrasing, callbacks to previous episodes, other cultural references etc, that each episode is like a jewellery box with gems waiting to be unpacked and pored over. I've said that I have started reading this show like a tarot deck because of how rich the symbolism in each episode is.

So despite the constraints of time and setting, characters of colour in this show are also so very rich in their realisation and portrayal. These characters are unambiguously and - this is important - unapologetically racialised: through language (see: Tina’s use - and occasional weaponisation lmao - of Spanish), physical appearance (see: Sydney’s two-tone braids and her stunning, prolific collection of headscarves throughout the show), culturally distinct names (see: Sydney Adamu, Ebraheim, Tina Marrero, etc), food (see: Carmy’s peace offering to Syd in ep 1x03 of Ebra’s family chicken suqaar - a popular dish in the latter character’s birth country of Somalia), etc.

GIF by @chefkids

These may seem like small and inconsequential details to some. In fact I’ve been seeing a lot of commentary from folks online saying that what they like about The Bear is that race isn’t mentioned at all on the show. But make no mistake: race is all over this thing. The examples I've given are only some of the many references to racialised histories and cultures that build out the broader fabric of multicultural Chicago here.

What is not present in The Bear is a script that is wasting time explaining the characters of colour and their rich inner and outer lives to white folks. Those things are just a given and we are invited to witness them being brought to vivid life by this cast and crew. And I am fucking here for it.

Respect and allyship

Another thing I LOVE about this show is the respect given to, and the recognition of, the experience, talent, drive and ambition of its characters of colour.

This is most obvious in the relationship between Syd and Carmy who are signalled as complementary equals in many ways. Others have written on the importance of the representation embodied by Sydney’s character and you should search out that analyses, especially when its authored by Black women. The only other thing I’d say about it is that I love Sydney’s character and I also love endgame Sydcarmy (even if it’s only hinted at in the last second of the last frame of the last ever episode lmao…I will take whatever I can get of these two 😭).

I also see the show’s respect and recognition manifest in The Bear's investment in its staff, particularly in season 2. Everyone who worked at The Beef has a role at The Bear and Carmy, Syd and Nat fund the ongoing training and upskilling of their largely racialised staff to make sure this happens. Ebra and Tina are paid to attend culinary school (Carmy also gives Tina his prized knife for her studies and beyond). Marcus is sent to stage in Copenhagen to develop his skills as a patissier. And then we have The Bear itself - what started as Carmy and Michael’s vision, is now the whole team’s baby, with Sydney literally being made the captain of the ship by Carmy at the end of ep 2x09.

GIF by @savagegood

Part of what was so tragic about Carmy's fridge spiral at the end of season 2 was that he didn't get to see how beautifully the team came through in a crisis. Instead we had him internalising, regressing and lamenting how he had let everyone down. This language centred Carmy as the be all and end all of The Bear (saviour vibes) when this couldn't have been further from the truth (particularly in a season where the man spent so much of his time not in the restaurant but chasing manic pixie no-last-name-having Claire....but I digress).

Carmy is his best when he checks his ego, takes a step back and realises that he is not alone. He is part of a whole chosen family supporting one another at The Bear. And I get the sense that the folks creating this show know that we need more white folks using their power and privilege to step back and facilitate access, and less gatekeeping white saviours taking credit where its not due.

After all, and paraphrasing Viola Davis, the only thing that separates people of colour from anyone else, is opportunity.

12/04/24 Note: I’ve amended this post because I forgot to mention the most pivotal example of Sydney along with her relationship with Carmy. Also made some slight stylistic changes to phrasing cos i fixate on errors lol

#the bear #the bear hulu #the bear fx #white gaze #critical race theory #carmen berzatto #sydney adamu #tina marrero #ebraheim #marcus brooks #allyship #white privilege #power #chris storer #joanna calo #sydney x carmen #sydcarmy #carmy x sydney

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chuplayswithfire · 2 years

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this is probably something white people don't think about, though i'm pretty confident other people of color will agree with me here, but like:

*everyone* who lives in a majority white country understands the white mind, except maybe some of those who have white minds. this is because we attend your schools, we watch your TV, and films, we read your books, we see the news filtered through your view. the vast majority of western media is about exploring the white mind, mostly unconsciously, because that's what happens the majority of NYT Best Sellers are written by white people (you know the books that get the most press) and the majority of shows are written by white people and produced by white people and reviewed by white people and - I could go on.

My purpose in saying this is because, if you're white you may think that in the same way you have to actively learn about other races and ethnicities and the works and arts produced by people of color, people of color have to go out of our way to learn about you.

we don't.

many of us learn as much about the culture of whiteness as we learn about our own cultures. someone of us more about whiteness than our own culture, depending on how much a family may have had to try and assimilate.

I welcome and incite genuine discussion and conversation - but genuinely and truly, the last thing anyone who identifies as a person of color generally needs is to be explained the white point of view. Trust me, we've understood it.

#racism #whiteness #white privilege

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fandomshatepeopleofcolor · 3 months

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White privilege is when social media is applauding Jacob Elordi for grabbing a man by the throat and slamming him against a wall in response to a creepy request while demonizing Will Smith for validly bitchslapping Chris Rock for making fun of his wife's alopecia.

- mod sodapop

#he got mad and validly so but grabbing someone in a chokehold is a bit too much #antiblackness #white privilege #will smith

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hussyknee · 4 months

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Whites and their liberal bootlickers are an infection. The settler is the colonizer is the genocider. Rejecting the most brutal form of direct violence means nothing when you refuse to divest from the structures created to accommodate you by invading and occupying them.

A settler's very existence is violent because they cannot exist without the colonial power that protects them. The only way to make it NOT violent is by dismantling the colonial power. Until then, your job is either to fucking leave, or work on educating yourself, amplifying the voices of the colonized, and accepting that armed resistance is a consequence of your existence. Holding placards over your head and yelling a lot at the people propagating and safeguarding the status quo that you benefit from doesn't merit you extra cookies anymore than accepting the softest punishment from a carceral system designed to torture the colonized to the point of death.

And if that makes you ask yourself "But...but I'm a settler! I'm white privileged! Does that mean MY existence is inherently violent to—" yes. It is. Take your unthreatened, unterrorized self to your whole and unbombed house with power and water and heat and food and your intact family, sit your ass down with the tub of ice cream you can afford and cry into it.

“There is no middle ground anymore. There is no way of supporting the liberal occupier, the progressive ethnic cleanser and the leftist genocider.”

—Ilan Pappé

#white fragility #white privilege #free palestine #free gaza #occupation #israeli occupation #settler colonialism #colonization #white supremacy #ethnosupremacy #decolonization #decolonize palestine #liberal zionism #anti zionism #fuck israel #glory to the resistance #colonialism #knee of huss #zionazis

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icedsodapop · 5 months

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I don't see enough analysis about May December and how Whiteness played a role in Joe's continued abuse at Gracie's hands. How Joe's racial other-ness being the only Korean kid in his White neighbourhood made him more vulnerable to Gracie's abuse. How Gracie's Whiteness made it easier for her to get away with marrying her rape victim and starting a family with him in broad daylight. How Gracie's White womenhood allowed her to live with some semblance of normality as a wife and a mum and a small business owner in suburbia despite being a registered child sex offender. All things that Black disability activist Ola Ojewumi pointed out, happened to the real-life woman Gracie is based on in this thread.

And then, that same White female gaze that Gracie projected onto Joe, the gaze that dehumanized him and viewed him as nothing but a sexual object, is also perpetuated by Elizabeth.

#may december #films #todd haynes #white privilege #white gaze #white feminity #white feminism #racial fetishization

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uw-wb · 5 months

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#no justice no peace #white privilege

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odinsblog · 1 year

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Funny how the one selectively leaked piece of information we know about Jordan Neely’s killer is that he is an ex-marine.

Why do we know only that tidbit, but nothing else about him?

My money says he’s either a cop, or the relative of a cop, or the relative of a high ranking political official. And the men who seemed to be accompanying him were similarly dressed, so same thing goes for them too.

#police #jordan neely #politics #blacklivesmatter #white privilege #two americas #double standards

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