mens-rights-activia:

I think for a lot of white people, when you call them out on their casual racism (microagressions and non-overt things), they see it as a case of hurt feelings from your point of view as opposed to a discussion of harmful practices that aid the vehicle of racism. So in response, they take it as a personal attack, rather than a learning experience, and go on the defensive by bringing up a time that you made them upset as leverage. Or they defend their actions by doubling down on the behavior at hand and dismissing your criticism as over sensitivity and emphasizing their “harmless” intent. And I think that is one of the reasons why it’s so hard to address casual and interpersonal racism with the general white population (and also other poc tbh).

I think white people NEED to read this and let it sink way deep down inside them.

Like when I say ‘white people need to talk to bigots because bigots don’t listen to minorities’ I did not say ‘and it will be easy and fun’.

I know it’s easier to be like ~boo hooo the world is so evil and there’s nothing I can dooo~ but it’s statistically and experientially understood, just by fucking 3rd grade logic, that a bigot will be less amenable towards the subject of their bigotry.

Bigots don’t just ~not like~ minorities- they don’t think we’re human. It’s not about whether they agree with you or not in the moment. Like, pause.

Understand this:

Calls to action for white people to oppose bigotry are calls for white people to position themselves as opposition. THEY ARE NOT CALLS FOR ~SUCCESSFUL DEBATE~

Do not think you are expected nor are you likely to just go around arguing with bigots and they’ll go ‘I agree with you because you’re white!’.

Your job is to be sandpaper.

Every time they open their mouths to make a bigoted joke, or a bigoted remark, or post their shitty bigoted opinion online, you grate against them.

Your job is to make it hard to be a bigot or a fascist. Your job is to ostracize them. Your job is to speak over them the way they love to speak over minorities. Your job is to make it difficult, lonely, annoying, stressful and unwelcome to be a bigot.

When you are white and silent, You are making it easy. You are just letting it happen.

When minorities speak up for themselves, they are in danger, and the bigot just writes off our arguments as the chattering of ‘lessers’.

You, white people, whether you think so or not, are their peers.

Specifically those of you who look and talk like, to an outside observation, your average white american.

Bigots think you all think like them, but are too scared to say it. That, or you’re too much of a coward to stop them.

YOUR JOB IS TO PUSH BACK AND PROVE THEM WRONG.

YOUR JOB IS TO SEPARATE THEM FROM THEIR OWN COMMUNITY AT LARGE.

There are devils among you and if you want to stop being associated with them then fucking prove it. You’re pretty much the only people who can.

thegiftedoneishere:

White Writer Calls Black Panther ‘Hollywood’s Worst Nightmare,’ Blames It for White People’s Problems

gardnerhill:

rafi-dangelo:

Black Panther is about $20 million shy of breaking the Avengers record for highest grossing film in North America (so yes, this means I will in fact be seeing it one more time), but it does bother me that the entire industry keeps focusing on Black Panther in relation to other movies, as if it’s somehow stealing box office revenue from other films.

1) If your movie is good, people are probably gonna want to go see it, even if they saw another movie that month. Middling reviews do not inspire people to shell out $15 a ticket regardless of whether there is a massive juggernaut released at the same time.

2) WE TOLD Y’ALL THIS MOVIE WOULD BE BIG. As soon as the movie was released, critics, box office watchers, and Chads of all stripes were predicting a $60 million open with maybe a $200 million end run. Because of that, studios decided to go ahead and release their tentpoles and big releases in this pre-summer period before the big blockbusters come out because they didn’t see Black Panther as a big blockbuster. Underestimating Black folks bit you in the ass again.

3) Suffer. I don’t know what else to tell you.

I’m trying to imagine this white guy and his white editor whining about white-starring blockbusters breaking box-office records. As one black Tweet said, black folks have been told from day one they had to be twice as good to be treated half as well, and now it’s THEIR fault BP is doing so well?