As a man, I have no problem with women generalizing men as rapists, misogynists, yada yada. Because I’ve seen men do some vile shit and had to stop even viler shit from happening. This is from the 3rd grade to now. Waayyy out of line touching, sick name-calling, physical abuse, all dat shit. I see…
R.I.P. Donna
Ahead of her time. We got heffas tryna dress like this TODAY.
*jumps on donna summers wanna-be bandwagon*
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But the true racism here is in Riley’s stupidity. Because that’s what racism is: white people’s entitlement to be dumb.
Racism means believing that anything you say, no matter how half-assed or ill-informed, is automatically smart and important because you’re white. Racism means being able to mock people of other races as stupid and ignorantbecause they know things you don’t. You can just assume that you know more than they do, because you’re white and they’re not. They’ve spent years doing primary research in a scholarly field. You have read a sidebar in a magazine. Obviously, you are the one who gets to judge their intellect.
Modern American racism masquerades as a defense of meritocracy. It is of course just the opposite. It is a defense of mediocrity and failure against genuine competition. Most racists who’ve been to college have learned how to be subtle about it. Riley is stupid and crude enough to give away the game. Racism promotes the presumption of intellectual and educational superiority, which means never having to prove your learning or intelligence. This is extremely convenient for white people who could not actually prove their intellectual superiority because they’re barely intellectually superior to a cucumber.
In the kinder, gentler form of racism, blacks are considered intellectually inferior until they prove otherwise. In the purer, viler strain, which is much more common than it appears, proof doesn’t matter: Barack Obama must be an intellectual fraud, African-Americans getting Ph.D.s don’t count as “legitimate scholars.” But even in the “nicer” form of racism, blacks only get grudgingly accepted as equals, and the white people have to concede that equality. Pat Buchanan gets to opine on whether Sonia Sotomayor is well-educated enough; who asked him? The idea that any given white person might not be as smart as a given black person, and that the white person doesn’t get a vote on whether or not that’s true, never enters the picture. This is a wonderful situation for the many, many, many white people who are not as smart as they want to think they are, including Naomi Schaefer Riley.This
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“Hey beautiful. Sometimes, I think about the false virgin/whore dichotomy that our society has constructed, and it makes me want to cry with you.”
Adapted from Feminist Ryan Gosling.
new favorite tumblr. most absolute favorite tumblr. forever favorite tumblr.
“I contacted Whole Foods and suggested a bet. If I could feed my family of three for 30 days exclusively from items purchased at Whole Foods for $491.10 they would reimburse me for my food. If I didn’t make it, they’d owe me nothing. The budget worked out to $16.31 cents per day total for all three of us. In case you’re wondering, here’s what we bought for the month.”
okay, i’m busting out my east los mexicana sociology lingo for this one: *lowers glasses, purses lips* “this shit is problematic, homesss!”
1.) i’m working class and i eat healthy not buying at WF, we shop standard mexi/asian store or george’s produce in el monte.
2.) organic is not always a viable option. what makes you think everyone can buy organic butter?
3.) many families don’t come in threes.
4.) most people don’t even have a WF in their vicinity and budget doesn’t account for mileage if you gotta drive out to on.
5.) it’s ethnocentric to think that their list is a regular shopping list. where are the pinto beans? or lentejas?
6.) not to mention the USDA’s levels of budget…please take a look at that.
7.) that comment about food stamps has racial/size-ist undertones.
8.) privileged white woman tears do not faze me.
9.) yes i fucking went there.
ughhhh. just. most classist shit ever. permanent side-eye status.
so utterly beautiful.
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waiting for my vegan tamales to cook. Drinking much, fam is here!
‘PEES A CHET.’
i wish i saw my room mate more often. i do wonder what he thinks about egypt.
but i love hearing him skype with his family. “habibi habibi!” and you can hear him smiling as he talks, loud animated talk.
i just taught my 6th grader figurative language by using a tribe called quest. he now knows what a simile, metaphor, idiom, rhyming, etc are (and he now knows who a tribe called quest is).
and then when we were done with the session he was like “that’s it?! i thought we were gonna go for an hour.” i said, “we went for an hour and a half, you whippersnapper!”
“oh. we did??”
BEST COMPLIMENT EVAAAR.
