I warned people that you cannot play the moral police and shame people into voting for your candidate. There was no safe space for open dialogue this election. It was simply my rhetoric vs. yours and Hillary supporters thought they were avenging justice by going on a witch hunt for anyone who not only supported Trump by painting them with a broad brush and saying "YOUR A RACIST, BIGOT, HOMOPHOBE ARRRRGHH" but also anyone who dare spoke up against the corruption and lies of their own candidate.
You cannot strike and hiss at people like they are wayward children that need to be brought back into line. So what did these peoplemdo? They stayed the **** silent and got in formation on Election Day and surprised everyone. Yes, not just the toothless white rednecks y'all tried to bully, but even white educated and middle class and white women as well.
Some overweight blogger with pink hair and identifying as nonbinary and posting #bodyposi selfies or whatever caricature pops in your mind when thinking about Tumblr should not bother you, shake you to your core, or upset you more than the reality that there are real viable movements of people entering our mainstream politics who would be okay with the eradication of black/gay people, who have the proximity to power and (as seen with Trump) can snatch it.
The idea that "extreme leftism" is "as bad" as far right white nationalist ideas is.. whew, frightening and sad.
The nonbinary kid with blue hair in your biology class who just wants everyone to feel accepted is not a threat to you, let alone supposed as much of a threat as literal white supremacists, literal fascists, and people literally for the torturing of gay people.
It really doesn't matter in the end because honestly POC are only given two options. Be quiet and complacent and accept your fate so you don't piss off the angry whites who could ruin your life or be loud and boisterous and call fight against supremacy and piss off the angry whites so that can ruin your life.
And then people want to pretend that had we been more "positive" things would have went better, yet every single thing that has been happened in since the Trayvon Martin case has been hot topics in the black community for decades. It wasn't Obama, BLM, or any of that that caused this divide it was already there. Social media just put a magnifying glass too it. Both the Trayvon Martin case and Mike Brown cases and all the other cases would not have gotten the coverage they received had people hadn't continuously shared them on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr etc.,
In the end it's a losing battle if youre a POC. It's 2016 and we're still begging for some of the same **** we were in 1955 and miss me with that it's not as bad as then crap. "Better" does not mean "Best" I was way more optimistic before Trump won, but I honestly don't think I'll ever see true equality in this country. A half assed version maybe, but not true equality.
Some overweight blogger with pink hair and identifying as nonbinary and posting #bodyposi selfies or whatever caricature pops in your mind when thinking about Tumblr should not bother you, shake you to your core, or upset you more than the reality that there are real viable movements of people entering our mainstream politics who would be okay with the eradication of black/gay people, who have the proximity to power and (as seen with Trump) can snatch it.
The idea that "extreme leftism" is "as bad" as far right white nationalist ideas is.. whew, frightening and sad.
The nonbinary kid with blue hair in your biology class who just wants everyone to feel accepted is not a threat to you, let alone supposed as much of a threat as literal white supremacists, literal fascists, and people literally for the torturing of gay people.
I am so sick of people being blamed for calling racists out as, uhm, racists? Excuse me for "telling it like it is" (Isn't that the favorite slogan of alt-right, anyway?)
The whole anti-PC/ anti-SJW/ freedom of speech are a coded language for people with inherent prejudice wanting to blatantly vent out their offensive and negative stereotypes of certain marginalized groups.
BLM was a dangerous thing to do, because EVERY time a black person did something stupid, people pinned it on BLM. They made SURE that BLM was seen as a dangerous hate group by focusing on awful isolated examples, when in reality maybe 10% of them were radical.
White people did this with The Black Panthers.
White people literally got them deemed a terrorist organization.
It had nothing to do with BLM's message.
Any time black people uplift their own, history shows us white people will intervene.
And that mentality goes both ways. BLM is anti-white, whites are racist. It's a mess everywhere you look.
BLM could've been bigger if the emphasis was made on positive things, a lot of non-black people were supportive of the organization and protesting with them. But it didn't fit the narrative BOTH sides are spreading.
"More positive things"
There are state-sanctioned KILLINGS of black people happening, **** your more "positive feelings".
It really doesn't matter in the end because honestly POC are only given two options. Be quiet and complacent and accept your fate so you don't piss off the angry whites who could ruin your life or be loud and boisterous and call fight against supremacy and piss off the angry whites so that can ruin your life.
And then people want to pretend that had we been more "positive" things would have went better, yet every single thing that has been happened in since the Trayvon Martin case has been hot topics in the black community for decades. It wasn't Obama, BLM, or any of that that caused this divide it was already there. Social media just put a magnifying glass too it. Both the Trayvon Martin case and Mike Brown cases and all the other cases would not have gotten the coverage they received had people hadn't continuously shared them on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr etc.,
In the end it's a losing battle if youre a POC. It's 2016 and we're still begging for some of the same **** we were in 1955 and miss me with that it's not as bad as then crap. "Better" does not mean "Best" I was way more optimistic before Trump won, but I honestly don't think I'll ever see true equality in this country. A half assed version maybe, but not true equality.
I feel like a lot of issues are being conflating here. BLM is a very different topic from the liberal media jumping on left cultural trend and sensationalising headlines and rhetoric with "Dear white people" "White people stop", "White male"etc. Most often the same authors were themselves white.
"Dear White People, Your Safety Pins Are Embarrassing"
The Divisive tone of conversation played into Trumps hands, especially with young, centralist white males who live and breathe social media just like the rest of their peers. Being on the upper echelon of the privilege scale does not make you invulnerable to attacks on esteem, identity and self worth. The left were drunk of the idea of social justice to let such a simple reality inform their conduct & effectiveness of their agenda.
I feel like a lot of issues are being conflating here. BLM is a very different topic from the liberal media jumping on left cultural trend and sensationalising headlines and rhetoric with "Dear white people" "White people stop", "White male"etc. Most often the same authors were themselves white.
"Dear White People, Your Safety Pins Are Embarrassing"
The Divisive tone of conversation played into Trumps hands, especially with young, centralist white males who live and breathe social media just like the rest of their peers. Being on the upper echelon of the privilege scale does not make you invulnerable to attacks on esteem, identity and self worth. The left were drunk of the idea of social justice to let such a simple reality inform their conduct & effectiveness of their agenda.
That’s because every white person needs to ackowledge and spread the fact that racism exists within them. I don’t care if you feel you are not racist. I don’t care if all your friends are black. The mere existence of being white means you have privileges that a black person does not, and so denying this, or letting it happen without questioning it and actively trying to end it, is in fact allowing racism to persist.
That’s why we have white authors addressing white people as a community.
Media pushed white people into a corner and told them they were responsible for all of the world's problems for the past 5 years and this is the result
That’s because every white person needs to ackowledge and spread the fact that racism exists within them. I don’t care if you feel you are not racist. I don’t care if all your friends are black. The mere existence of being white means you have privileges that a black person does not, and so denying this, or letting it happen without questioning it and actively trying to end it, is in fact allowing racism to persist.
That’s why we have white authors addressing white people as a community.
I understand the reason, although some of it is just gratuitous but I'll repeat.
"Being on the upper echelon of the privilege scale does not make you invulnerable to attacks on esteem, identity, (pride) and self worth. The left were too drunk of the idea of social justice to let such a simple reality inform their conduct & effectiveness of their agenda."
At the end of the day peoples feelings matter. You will always be met with backlash when speaking down to a racial demographic as if theyre a monolithic community. Imagine the article "Gay black men, protect yourselves". "Black people, why much homophobia in hip hop" "Why are black people disproportionately arrested for violent crime" Imagine the outrage. There is a reality of certain communities needing particular attention on certain issues, yet it's only with white demographics where we seem to think it's OK to dismiss all tact. No matter how righteous your point, you always have to be concerned with the nature of your communication. Just look at the top comments in the link I posted, people who consider themselves allies are once again taking offence to the tone of a conversation, imagine the response from those who are less liberal.
I'm not against the conversations that have been had, or against the idea of sometimes employing provocative dialogue but I just think we've lost sight of actually trying to effectively communicate in a way which helps the cause(s) & reaches out those whom need to hear and be educated by it.
