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My name is: Michelle, but most people call me Dark online.
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Kevin Hannon
His entire page is like this.
Kevin Hannon, everyone! Let’s reblog the crap out of this so that if this asshole ever tries to get a job, this will be the very first google result!
He is from Philadelphia (god damnit) so all my Philly friends should just keep a look out for him
And while we’re at it, may as well signal boost Mara Lynn Lowther and Krystal Lee Lowther, who apparently find his undisguised racism funny.
Discrimination and racism aren’t the same thing, you do realize that, right?
Racism and sexism come from places of power. Racism and sexism are a type of discrimination. But they are also systematic oppression.
Discrimination alone is not systematically oppressive.
There is no systematic oppression against white people or men. Thus, no racism or sexism. Just discrimination/prejudice.Racism = prejudice + power/privilege. White people have white privilege. We live in a white supremacist society. Aka, white people can be racist against PoC, but PoC cannot be racist towards white people. They can be discriminative and/or prejudiced, but not racist.
Sexism = prejudice + power/privilege. Men have male privilege. We live in a patriarchal society. Aka, men can be sexist against women, but women cannot be sexist towards men. They can be discriminative and/or prejudiced, but not sexist.
Do you see the power dynamics here? You’re looking at racism and sexism as the same thing as prejudice and discrimination. They aren’t. They aren’t the same thing. They involve systematic oppression. Men and white people are not systematically oppressed. It’s that simple.
stigs-journey replied to your post: i would have to disagree with you claiming you cant be racist towards white people. I have heard instances where asiain children, in america will gang up and ridicule a white child for not being like them. I have experienced first hand white racisim living in a city that is mainly hispanics. It does exist. They called me white girl, and unable culture or become good friends with Hispanics because i am white. They have called me racial slurs in spanish behind my back. its real.
Your personal experience is sad but its not something systematically happening to white kids, therefore its not global oppression therefore its not racism in the same way it is toward POC.
First off what city is mostly “hispanics”? Let me know so I can move tonight.
Second you are so racist that you don’t even realize it. Look it is even in the way that you write. You keep using the term “hispanics” but not hispanic people. Or Latin@ people more accurately (at least to me). Yet us have no problem identifying white people as people.
Obviously you have never experienced any kind of racism. Because you have no way of giving anything more than a Latin@ person made fun of me. Good. You obviously deserve it for being a racist little shit. PoC have a keen sense of sniffing out racism when it comes near us and no we don’t want it around us.You wear it like a bad perfume to be honest.
Third: You refer to people by their race alot but you don’t like it when we call you white girl? Sucks when the shoe is on the other foot, huh?
Four: Please let me know what racial slurs Latin@ people have created against white people? I would like to know because to be honest I haven’t heard of any outside of Gringo and even then it is closer to American then it is to white people but white people get it twisted because they believe the only real kind of American is a White person so….(Because everyone else has to hyphenate).
Five: I wanna see receipts of these asian children bullying some white kid. Because even if it did happening I have no guarantee he wasn’t being raised to be a racist shit like his parents and got what was coming to him, and if you have no proof I am sure I wouldn’t need more than a google search to find the opposite, a bunch of white kids ganging up on a young asian kid because they were being racist little shits.
Six: If PoC don’t want to be your friend it’s because they know a racist whiny person and we have enough on our plates without having to pat you on the back every five minutes for not being the worst racist jerk out there.
i seriously have no words for this stupidity. i dont even know
I EXPLAINED THIS. I DID. WERE YOU NOT THERE? HERE LET ME REPEAT MYSELF. AGAIN.
Racism and sexism are a type of discrimination. But they are also systematic oppression. See, I even bolded it for you.
Discrimination alone is not systematically oppressive. See the difference?
There is no systematic oppression against white people or men. Thus, no racism or sexism. Just discrimination/prejudice. TA DA.
Now go ahead and tell me you still don’t get it/agree/whatever.
….DISCRIMINATION IS NOT THE SAME THING AS RACISM.
Oh my God, why can’t people understand this. THEY ARE NOT SYNONYMS.
stigs-journey replied to your post: i would have to disagree with you claiming you cant be racist towards white people. I have heard instances where asiain children, in america will gang up and ridicule a white child for not being like them. I have experienced first hand white racisim living in a city that is mainly hispanics. It does exist. They called me white girl, and unable culture or become good friends with Hispanics because i am white. They have called me racial slurs in spanish behind my back. its real.
Your personal experience is sad but its not something systematically happening to white kids, therefore its not global oppression therefore its not racism in the same way it is toward POC.
Do these people even realize how racism effects PoC? Let me tell you, it’s a lot worse than ‘waah, that person made fun of me.’
Are you serious?
These are actually the first I’ve gotten, I think. It was just a lot of them at once. But for them to keep running that shit after I carefully laid it all out and explained everything… just… that’s just willful ignorance.
