Black people ain't what they used to be

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[–]According-Junket-885 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

They actually massproduced that shirt?

[–]ClassroomPast6178 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It’s the Out@UCL group, the LGBT society at University College London. My bet is that they’re struggling to justify their group’s existence in a world where the only people who are a threat to their health and safety are actually higher up the intersectional oppression pyramid than them, so they’ve tried to come up with the game winning slogan by combining multiple grifts.

I have to admit to finding shit like this quite funny for a number of years now, in 2015 a feminist group joined forces with an Islamist group to disrupt the lecture of an ex-Muslim, atheist feminist when she tried to talk about free speech, apostasy and blasphemy.

So I could see the discussion that led to those t-shirts involving discussing a way for a bunch of white guys to be bullet proof in a world, that they themselves helped birth, that largely gives no shits for white guys (gay or straight). Instead of say, calling for the liberation of Saudi, Ugandan, Iranian or Emrati gays….who face actual death.

Pride London is fucking calling out for a group to troll them by marching under a banner reading “Mohammed/Islam is right about the gays”, just to show up their hypocrisy of claiming oppression and ignoring the treatment of gay people in other countries because of the colour of the oppressors skins.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The thing about doing something for the rights of people actually being oppressed is that thoughts and prayers, and little colored flag overlays for your Twitter profile picture, are so much easier to do and quicker to give a rush of "I did a good thing, yay me" endorphins.

Actual change, on the other hand, requires sustained and genuine effort. It will almost certainly require you to pressure your government into putting pressure on the oppressing government--which will almost certainly get the anti-colonialists fired up and screaming--and to support the sort of domestic policies that can give your government the diplomatic weight to make that pressure actually mean something. It will require you to weather the backlash that the oppressing government will kick up, and that any of its supporters in other countries (but especially in your country) might try to enact.

Above all, it might require you to admit that some cultures and societies are markedly better than others, and that tearing down those better ones in a piss-ignorant attempt at "equality" is a bad thing.

[–]jet199[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

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