June 2012
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a-tropical-elf asked: Thanks for this blog. It hurts when people don't get "what the big deal is", and here you are listing out all the reasons why. Keep up the good work!
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#36
White privilege is when you can get loud and dispute a wrong order with a cashier or manager and not have security called on you for disorderly conduct.
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#35
White privilege is when you can wear hair pieces, weaves of different colors, and dreds/locs and be considered hip or even cool. Whereas POC are called fake, ghetto, or dirty.
May 2012
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White privilege is when a black art form (like hip-hop) increasingly caters to you: Travy, BoB, and anything produced by Alex Da Kid.
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peanutbutterandjellyfish asked: To the person who said that this blog was hateful, I honestly have no idea where you got that from. This blog is direct and honest, and maybe white folk have a problem with that, but oh well. This blog doesn't exist to coddle the feelings of white folk but that doesn't make it hate fueled. :/ And to the creator, thanks for running this blog. Sometimes I need a reminder that not everyone...
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Anonymous asked: Last anon. Intersectionality or die.
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cosmicrubric asked: I think that works better.
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paxalida asked: I agree with some of the things that you are saying but your blog is also coming off as hate fueled. If you have hatred coming from all sides, its not going to solve anything. Not that anger shouldn't be a source of change and fuel for passion, but hatred isn't the right means of expressing that. That's why we're here in the first place.
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Anonymous asked: This white chick here HAS no privilege due to being poor, ugly, and queer. What do you say to THAT?
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fivelettered asked: passing privilege isn't white privilege, though! you just experience more benefits for not being one of those 'dark' POC. it works within a frame work of benefitting whiteness, but it isn't white privilege. Beyonce doesn't have white privilege. Just because you "pass" doesn't mean you benefit from the system the same way a white person does. The same can go...
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cosmicrubric asked: I hear you, but the thing is - you're still a POC even if you are lightskinned poc. You know what happens to POC who are obviously so and if anyone so much as knew your last name or knew your heritage you'd be fucked. It's not the same exact thing as white privilege - the fear that white people don't have to have is still present. Also, I'm a darkskinned black person...
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Anonymous asked: I think some people are seriously in denial or just not getting through their head that the more "white" you pass off, the more privilege you'll have in this white supremest society. I would suggest to this blog is to find more evidence such as images and articles that show white privilege and the comparison between that and visible people of color. And to be honest I get tired of...
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ladystain asked: Anyone offended by "cracker" needs to sit the fuck down, and figure out how stupid your ass sounds. And as a passing Latina, I completely understand why you find passing and white privileges so interchangeable as to render one redundant. Many different intersections will keep a person from enjoying ALL of the benefits white privilege has to offer, and I don't see why a person's...
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Anonymous asked: Passing as white means getting the same treatment as white people, even if we don't internalize the same messages. Zimmerman experienced white privilege in that he was treated exactly like a non-latino white guy would be; at the same time, though, white-passing PoC are also bombarded with messages about the superiority of the "real" white people, and how we should be emulating...
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covenesque asked: it's super obnoxious for people to whine about their fake hurt feelings and how POC should prioritize those 'feelings' over everything else on a blog about whiteness and white privilege and its effects ON POC. come on, white people. suck it up. if the worst thing the term 'cracker' does is remind you of your position and privilege in a white supremacist society and how you...
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cosmicrubric asked: You know what this reminds me of, actually? Try telling a trans person who passes that they have cis privilege. Please do, because I'm into bloodsports. It's awful erasure.
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#33
White privilege is never having to be referred to as “urban,” and never scratching your head raw trying to figure out what the fuck that means.
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cryingjessepinkman asked: "As a light-skinned PoC, you may not get benefits of white privilege, but you’ll get others. Sometimes, you won’t get any. Other times, you might get more." this is passing privilege. stop here. it's not WHITE privilege because white privilege may not be a singular entity but your average straight-up white person gets ALL of the privileges you've listed and more....
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Anonymous asked: ""Cracker" insults a white person because of an action he or she did not commit." God. If you're white and you've enjoyed the privileges of being white without question, YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG. THE TITLE IS EARNED.
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recoverybirds asked: As a mixed PoC, I really get tired of all these people acting like because they're lighter they don't have privileges. Some lighter skinned non-white people are looked at as white. Some will never pass as white, but all of us lighter skinned people will have privilege over darker skinned people. It IS white privilege simply because the "white mentality is" the lighter you are,...
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thatqueerlatina asked: I think that passing privilege is a specific form of white privilege. White privilege is getting privilege from whiteness (Duh) But when I pass for white, I'm getting privilege from whiteness even though I'm not white. So if this makes any sense, I'm getting privilege FROM whiteness, not FOR whiteness. I think what has a lot of people up in arms about this is that it does feel like...
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Anonymous asked: "Cracker" insults a white person because of an action he or she did not commit. Honestly, I'm not saying that what has happened is wrong, but you are, without a doubt, being incredibly rude to someone who stands on your side. I just think you shouldn't use the word "cracker." Unless it involves a cheese board and some wine, like the saltine or club kind.
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cosmicrubric asked: "ok, it’s different in the sense that you don’t always get it..." That is the ENTIRE POINT.
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cosmicrubric asked: Was it ever said that George Zimmerman ever personally identified himself as a POC or stated he was anything besides a white man?
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recoverybirds asked: But cracker is not even a term used to degrade a white person because they're white. Cracker only attacks a specific type of person who happens to be white. "N*gger" attacks all darker skinned people who are darked skinned. A term used to "put them in their place". Cracker, is at least an exacerbated prejudice term or in some cases a term fitting to describe how low down,...
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Anonymous asked: You legit just responded to my argument that calling me a cracker is wrong, by calling me a cracker. That's just...terrible.
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cryingjessepinkman asked: so you're still saying that it IS white privilege straight up, is that it? because that is you actually erasing all the racism i do experience no matter what you say. either stop contradicting yourself or don't talk about passing privilege. this is a blog about white privilege, not passing privilege.
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Anonymous asked: "Cracker" dehumanizes me into some idea of a whip-yielding slaveowner, it implies that my ancestors were terrible people who did inhumane things and owned slaves, it is legitimately the one thing that a person can call me from behind a computer based only on the fact that I'm white. I've never called somebody a "nigger," and calling me a "cracker" is wrong...
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cosmicrubric asked: Thank you, petrichorandkisses. Call it by its proper name. Don't say that POC have white privilege because that is NEVER true. They do not under any circumstances get the benefits of white privilege because white privilege is ALL THE TIME - socially, legally, and institutionally. POC will never have that no matter how pale they are.
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cryingjessepinkman asked: you straight-up said that passing privilege is EXACTLY THE SAME as white privilege. that's why i and others are pissed.
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cryingjessepinkman asked: "But if you pass for white, you don’t always have to deal with that, do you?" if you have to ask, then you don't fuckin know. and just by putting it that way? you proved it is NOT the same as white privilege. passing privilege is a goddamn blessing especially where i've recently moved, 98% white and full of old-school racists, but it doesn't erase the fear in my...
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Anonymous asked: Would white people being prejudice against other white people be considered ethnocentrism instead of racism?
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thatqueerlatina asked: Oh, definitely. Being able to pass for white, or even white right off the bat, means that you get an insane amount of privilege. Thanks for clarifying.
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Anonymous asked: yes, being white comes with benefits. but being black does as well. at least most people assume that you are american. i wear “american” style clothes, and i speak english fluently with the most blatantly american accent (military brat, think of how newscasters speak without the over enunciation), but people still tell me how great my english is, and ask me when I came to the US, or...
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Anonymous asked: Clearly, some people following this blog don't know what 'passing' means... If everyone knows/assumes you're a PoC, then you don't get white privilege; you aren't passing. If people generally assume you are white, then you get white privilege. Unless you divulge that you are a PoC, you are passing for white.
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thatqueerlatina asked: Passing privilege comes with many of the same benefits WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH WHITE PEOPLE. But being a PoC, Latin@ in my case, means that you don't get the cultural aspects. I don't get to hear my language or see my culture everywhere. And when I'm around other Latin@s, I have to deal with them being mad at me for passing as white, even if I'm not trying. While at the...
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cryingjessepinkman asked: "who said it did?" you did! you said it was the exact same as white privilege and um you need to not be deciding my fucking experiences for me, especially if you're not even fuckin latin@. don't get salty with me when you put that nonsense out there. if that's not how you meant it, it's on YOU to clarify it, not on me to magically divine that shit.
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cosmicrubric asked: ...you did, by saying that POC with passing privilege have white privilege. White privilege is the absence of having to think about race because one does not experience the institutionalized consequences of racism. People of color have to deal with racism by virtue of their color no matter how dark or how light it is.
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cosmicrubric asked: Nope. At the end of the day a POC who passes is still NOT WHITE and thus does not reap the benefits of white privilege - they still have to deal with the crap that comes with being a person of color.
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cryingjessepinkman asked: are you a mixed poc? are you a poc with passing privilege with a latino surname? if not, SIT DOWN.
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#32
White privilege is when Trayvon Martin’s murder didn’t make you fear for you life and the life of your loved ones.
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mariavontraphouse asked: if you can pass for white how do you not benefit from white privilege?
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#31
White privilege is having every field of academia founded and dominated by people who look like you. White privilege is thinking you have the right to ban academic fields that are founded by PoC (sup, Arizona?).
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#30
White privilege is being able to take a “Gentlemen’s C” in a course without worrying if all your professors/teachers will email you about your lack of “drive and dedication.”
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cosmicrubric asked: About the ask re: a woman of color having white privilege if she's light-skinned - she doesn't have white privilege but she does have PASSING privilege because of colorism/shadeism in black communities. She's still not white, though, so she doesn't have white privilege. I'm a POC myself.
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Anonymous asked: Um. What the fuck do you do when you explain the concept of white privilege and the non existence of reverse racism and misandry and they then just fucking laugh and say "that's some ignorant bullshit".
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verdor asked: Do I have white privilege if I am a woman of color but "look white?"
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getsnarly-deactivated20130217 asked: Here to collect other jewish people who are fucking up on here right now. (see past poster) Ahem. Jews have been assimilated into whiteness within like the past 50 years. Being Jewish still means white privilege, ESPECIALLY nowadays. Sit the fuck down and learn something. This is not your turn to derail, or play the oppression olympics.
