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7th December 2011

Link reblogged from Amy Dentata with 220 notes

My Blu Tinted Glasses: Protips to privileged folks: →

sanaatamir:

velocicrafter:

sanaatamir:

If you take it personally when a marginalized group is angry at a privileged group, you’re showing your privilege. It isn’t about you.

If you make it about your feelings, especially over the feelings of a marginalized group, you’re showing your privilege. It isn’t about your damn fee-fees.

If you get offended on behalf of all other members of [privileged group] over some generalization a marginalized person made, you’re showing your privilege. It isn’t about you, and we don’t care that not all X are Y, seriously.

If you feel the need to lecture the marginalized person about how they express themselves, and why their “attitude” is unproductive/unhelpful/hostile, you’re showing your privilege. It isn’t about you or your feelings or opinions, once again.

If you feel entitled to be told why [X thing] is bad, and then proceed to argue about why [X thing] isn’t bad, you’re showing your privilege. It isn’t about you or your damn opinions, and also you’re wrong and need to shut up.

If you act like you’re somehow bringing up new information that has never been considered before to a marginalized person and then get offended when you’re told to take a seat and shut up, you’re showing your privilege. It isn’t about you or your damn opinions, which are irrelevant.

If you bring up the fact that other folks from the same marginalized group disagree on [X issue] and that therefore a marginalized person with a different opinion must be wrong, you’re showing your privilege and need to sit the fuck down.

(Feel free to add to this. I’m sure I missed several.)

The only thing I’d add at the moment is this:

if you’re marginalised in one area, you may still have privilege in other areas. 

e.g.: if you’re poor & white, you lack class privilege, but still get white privilege. If you’re a gay man, you are marginalised based on your sexuality, but you still get male privilege, etc. 

Yeah, and that gets forgotten a lot, especially when folks want to pretend that, for example, being queer cancels out being white or cis. I’m all *facepalm at self* for forgetting to include that one now! Thanks, lol.

Source: sanaa-tamir

6th December 2011

Link reblogged from Dumb Things White People Say with 459 notes

Reblog if you would support a fantasy RPG for PoC and queer people. →

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

polerin:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

antique-beast:

And where any non-male characters aren’t oversexualized to all hell?
I’d play that in a heartbeat; and if the graphics where pretty I’d even not pirate it! 

i am still looking for people to make the graphics pretty

PoC and queer people deserve pretty

and everyone is going to be in full armor 99% of the time so not much sexualization going on

Armor? :D

I SAID FULL ARMOR DAMNIT

though the armor will change in each individual world in the game, but since the main character is genderqueer/androgynous, they will not be rolling around in crotch armor ever since that would give away a little more than they’d like

For sure! Maybe the sexiness could be an option! Nothing wrong with sexiness unless it’s oppressive and forced!

Source: dumbthingswhitepplsay