Because All Good Heroes Deserve Kidneys

trojanphoenix:

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:

trojanphoenix:

Oh UKIP are complaining about how oppressed they are because people criticise their racism/xenophobia/general asstwatishness and claims Scottish politics are “being racist against the English”.

Not surprising a bunch of racist idiots don’t understand how oppression works.

“We are UKIP because we stand for all of the UK because we are all Britain ZOMG THOSE SCOTS ARE BEING MEAN TO US ENGLISH”

Well, those definitions lasted well.

Do you think they know that the “British” pound sign £ came from the Romans and has been used as currency sign in lots of other countries that aren’t part of the UK?

It’s a bit like a MRA group having a ♂ symbol as a sign and having people who studying astrology and alchemy laughing at them.

I think if I’ve learned anything about groups like UKIP and the BNP it’s that they have not the faintest glimmer of an idea about where anything comes from, up to and most especially including the things they build political platforms on.

Like immigration. If you want everyone to ‘go home’, including people who were actually born here; what’s the cut-off point where it was okay? England as a country has produced an incredible race of people off the back of its immense diversity owing to all that conquering that was done to it. Which of those waves of immigration is okay? Is it in chronological order? Or do we pick and choose? Are we chucking out anyone of Viking descent but keeping the Normans? No, wait, in the modern day everyone randomly and bitchily hates France and racially abuses them but thinks of Scandinavia as simply the place where flat-packs and crime dramas come from. So maybe it should be the other way around. How do you reconcile that some people might Look A Bit Brown but have actually been here, family-wise, since the middle ages, whereas someone who looks white is second-generation German? And how, when claiming “ancestral rights” to your homeland, do you get around the thorny issue of, say, the Welsh? Because, you know, if we’re going down the path of genetics…

Heh, funniest thing I ever heard from the BNP actually was Nick Griffin once saying there’s “no such thing as a black Welshman”, which even aside from the blatantly incorrect racism shows (a) an astonishing sense of entitlement that you get to dictate who does and doesn’t qualify as a nationality that isn’t even yours, and (b) an astonishing lack of understanding of the qualification rules for being Welsh; like the Japanese we care more about being culturally than genetically Welsh, and that just means supporting whoever plays England in the rugby. Including, and I literally mean this, if you are English but don’t support the English rugby team.

TL;DR: lol, racist politics

bradamantium:

I hang around a subreddit called girlgamers. Predictably, it’s a place for female gamers to talk. I regularly participate in discussions and all because they regularly turn to sexism in the industry and that’s something I’m crazy passionate about. (And all forms of exclusion games regularly present, while I’m talking about it.)

I regularly see a lot of guys who say things like “This isn’t sexist” or “If you don’t like it go change it yourself” or other non-arguments that serve no purpose other than starting a fight. And it’s starting to dawn on me that these are men who go to this place where the content matter is all indicated right in the name of the forum and pick fights anyways. Not because they believe in it and think people are overreacting, not because they think the conversations they might propagate are meaningful…but just because they can pick a fight.

That’s supremely fucked up, and it comes with the accompanying realization that this is what a lot of men do in any conversation that isn’t theirs. Parade on in and wave their entitlement around like a big phallic Thing and pick fights about things they clearly don’t care about just for the sake of fighting.

Well, what you’ve hit on there is the privilege of Thinking Your Voice Is The Default, combined with the problem of telling people the old adage of ‘Everyone is entitled to their opinion’ without the important caveats. Caveats such as ‘No, you’re entitled to your informed opinion’ (look up Harlan Ellison for more on this, of course) and ‘holding an opinion is not the same as expressing it’, and ‘you are not entitled to voice your opinion in someone else’s space’.

It’s also a problem with white people thinking they get a say in topics concerning racism. So convinced are they by society that theirs is the voice that matters, that everything they say has great merit, that theirs is the One True Opinion; so accustomed are they to being automatically listened to and given greater consideration in any conversation than any other demographic, that when POC try to discuss any such issues these white people will swing in to lend their voice in spite of not having a fucking clue about the facts. But hey! Everyone’s entitled to an opinion, and you’re suppressing free speech if you don’t let them, or something! So now the poor POC have to sit and listen to some complete ignoramus spout utter fucking nonsense that contributes absolutely zero to the issue and has no worth or value whatsoever, when they could have been actually getting something done. Because if they don’t it’s reverse racism and restricting freedom of speech and blah blah blah sorry, let me just go and hit myself in the head repeatedly until I forget the term ‘reverse racism’ even exists, especially since even if you’re the kind of screaming moron who thinks it’s a thing it’s a linguistic own-goal.

I think one of the most important things Tumblr has taught me is to assess before I weigh into a discourse whether or not my voice is actually welcome or relevant.

Commiserations, though. It always sucks to be reminded that the dregs of humanity are still there, providing a baseline.

racismschool:

The lie of the “Justice” system is that it’s there to protect white people. This is a fallacy. One that will one day, sooner rather than later, come back to haunt you. The “Justice” system is there, not to protect white people but to protect white people from being punished. (In addition to making massive profits of course) White people, both those who work to be non-racist as well as those who don’t, might take some comfort in knowing that in most cases, they don’t have to worry about the police. Often, they have no reason to think about the system at all. The part so many of you seem to be forgetting is that while some of you will read about the Prison Industrial Complex and others will absorb statistic after statistic that says Black people are unfairly targeted, given higher incarceration rates and longer sentences for the same or lessor crimes, you haven’t thought about what that means for you personally.

While your skin color may work in your favor as far as jail time goes, being a victim of white-on-white crime, is quite the opposite. 96% of all rapes are committed by white men. Yet, 80% of rape inmates are Black. This means most male rapists are walking free. Free to rape again, simply because of the color of their skin. Now, add that to the fact that most crime, is intraracial and not interracial and you have white on white homicide at 86%. White on white homicide is slightly lower than Black on Black homicide but remember, Black people are getting sent to jail these days for breathing. White people are being given less than a slap on the wrist for even vicious crimes.

If you are white, not only should you be angry that criminals with your skin tone aren’t getting punished, you should be terrified that criminals of your skin tone will find you.

And I mentioned that rape statistic only the other day, and then promptly couldn’t find it to be specific. So here we are! Also for the extremely good and important commentary.

And now for some good news!

So, there was a White Pride parade in Swansea today, Tumblrs, which is not the good part of this news, I hasten to add. As you might imagine, these things have as much in common with a genuine march to celebrate your ethnic heritage as a film adaptation of WW2 in which Adolf Hitler is attempting to save the Jews from the Federated States of Micronesia. It’s a big ol’ collection of racists. We’ve had these in Swansea before. The last one was a marvellous event - the EDL (or English Defence League) decided to branch out into Wales, and so rebranded itself the Welsh Defence League for the day and arrived with some Welsh flags they’d bought on the train and some bits of cardboard they’d pulled off of some six packs, and they wrote slogans on the flags and six pack cardboard like ‘Patriotism isn’t racism’.

I think they forgot that was their excuse, though, because they all gathered outside the castle in Swansea, but there are some flats next to the castle and people on the first floor had hung an anti-Nazi symbol off their balcony, and while the police were cordoning off the EDL one of them actually climbed up a drainpipe and dragged the anti-Nazi sign down in great affront. Also one later forgot himself, because as they were being marched swiftly back down the High Street to the train station  he saw a black guy standing next to me and Steff and just screamed the N-word at him totally appropos of nothing. Which really undermined their nice ‘We aren’t racist, honest’ signs.

Anyway, that day was marvellous because when Swansea found out that the EDL were coming to town all of the lovely socialist organisations turned out in force in a counter protest that out-numbered the EDL 4:1. It was glorious, Tumblrs. Hippies everywhere. I pushed my way through a throng at one point, and when I emerged on the other side my hair had been braided and adorned with flowers. I looked like Rapunzel in Tangled when they go to that town. And Steff’s shoes had become sandals. The police cordoned the two sides off, marched the racists straight back to the train station, where they were shipped the hell out of Wales, and arrested anyone who’d committed crimes like stealing anti-Nazi banners or screaming the N-word at people. We pointed and laughed, signed some petitions against NHS cuts, and went home with eight new hand-knitted scarves and an invite to the Swansea Pride parade the next week. Beautiful.

Anyway, I mention this because it happened again today! The racists were a bit cleverer this time - they realised that Swansea was having none of their nonsense and would just firmly kick them out and laugh at their rubbish placards, so rather than going at noon to the castle to start, which is between High Street (which contains all the gay bars), Wind Street (which contains all the pubs) and Oxford Street (which contains all the shops) and therefore falling foul of Swansea Socialists Unite, they went to the Waterfront Museum at 11 am, which is too early in the morning on a Saturday for most Swansea types and in any case, is so far off the standard beaten path the only locals you’re likely to meet are shipping enthusiasts desperate to play with the fine interactive computer models of ships to be found in the Waterfront Museum. Clever, see? No risk of awkward locals to point out that the racists actually aren’t speaking for the people.

Didn’t work though.

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2013/03/09/hundreds-unite-against-swansea-white-pride-protest-91466-32956763/

Here is an excellent article about the reaction to black writers writing black characters in comics that you should all read now.

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/02/27/black-comic-writers-writing-while-black-one-punch-man/