BRAND X

Never trust a person who says they’ve never been (x)ist.

firstrisingvibes:

Because it’s BS! Yes, we’d all like to believe we’ve never been racist or sexist or anti-trans or anything like that, but let’s face it, we’ve all had shitty thoughts or made shitty assumptions or said shitty things when it comes to people we’re privileged over. Hell, we’ve pretty much all done it when it comes to people we’re in the same group as. I can fully admit I’ve said ableist crap, I’ve said cissexist crap, I’ve had nasty opinions when it comes to slut shaming, I’ve had racist thoughts, I’ve generally said or thought assholish things about most sections of society. Why? Because I’m a fucking human and none of us exist in a vacuum. We’ve all grown up in a society where (x)ist messages are thrown at us every damn day by the media, our parents, our friends… and yeah, we have all absorbed this shit. We have. Yup, it’s hard to feel like a bastion of liberal beliefs when you realize this but it’s just a plain and simple fact. And honestly? It’s more shameful when you pretend otherwise.

Own up to the (x)ist attitudes you’ve had/still have. Accept it when someone tells you that you’ve been (x)ist without getting defensive. And learn. And that way, you can curb your (x)ism and become a better person. Pretending you’ve never once called someone a slur or that you didn’t mean it in a bad way ain’t gonna help.

Never trust a WHITE person who says they’ve never been racist.

Never trust a CIS person who says they’ve never been cissexist.

Never trust an ABLED person who says they’ve never been ableist.

And so on and so forth ad nauseum.

THERE I FIXED IT.

Cause I for one am really sick of this Avenue Q “everyone’s a little bit racist so you’re no less accountable than me for my privileged bullshit” derailing CRAP.

And don’t try to serve that predictable, equivocating “I’m a fucking human and none of us exist in a vacuum” waffle. You can’t blame oppressed people for internalizing oppression that they have been FORCED to internalize, so this common, cowardly lumping in of privileged positions with marginalized ones under some abstract banner of common humanity is truly fucking insufferable.

Oppression = Prejudice AND POWER, come on folks how many times do we have to say it.

(Source: inflateablefilth)