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January 27, 2012 • 233 notes • dagseoul

The Long, Dark Tea-Time of a Librarian's Soul: Dear White Liberals,

iggyjack:

dagseoul:

You won’t like this, but too bad.

For centuries white people have developed a sense of modernity with an ideal that looks like an educated, modest, upwardly mobile, Christian, white male. That’s a fact.

For centuries, non-white, not-male bodies have been the…

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    yes, the main problem is that there is racism/sexism/classicism/heterosexism/cissexism in pretty much all institutions...
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    Ok thanks for that. I do understand that I am befitting off of other people oppression and I wish I couldn’t. I know...
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  12. ancientbruises reblogged this from caractacus-potts and added:
    the point. you missed it. this whole “but my ancestors were poor people in europe!” is a classic strawman argument...
  13. caractacus-potts reblogged this from dagseoul and added:
    Thanks for the help, I couldn’t figure that out for myself. But I am wondering where your anger is coming from. If you...
  14. dagseoul reblogged this from caractacus-potts and added:
    Quit while you’re ahead. (That’s sarcasm.)
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    Sup Broski. So I read...post and I am not even mad at all. I was not trying to make myself...
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  20. dagseoul reblogged this from caractacus-potts and added:
    Oh you victim you. For...punks who whine about white guilt. THIS
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    Um my ancestors were European peasants who didn’t oppress shit. Although I guess to be far they did oppress women to a...
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    My original post...guilt. It’s about (y)our denial
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    Well, white people can afford to be individuals. It’s such a thoughtless statement: “I don’t let my skin color defined...
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    hahahhahaahahahaha that macro is so great
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    I don’t think people realize that having the ability to not think about race is a privilege in of itself. When you live...
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    How precious. Try harder.
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    I wonder if being a white woman only makes me half a “privilege denying shit.” But oh wait, I don’t let my skin color...
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    Fuck all this white guilt shit
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