hawaiisun asked: I am Indian, but not middle eastern.I am commonly mistaken for hispanic and i am judged frequently by others because of my skin color. It would be nice if you addressed issues not only for black people, but for other colored people as well. My skin is brown too and people can be incredibly racist toward me.but the ethnicity that they think i am. What i'm really trying to say is not all black people are treated unequally and not all white people are privileged bitches that you make them out to be

*People of color. And the first part of your ask was legitimate. We accept all POC submissions. The mods are black and we’re not gonna speak for anyone’s experience, not even black people! Cause we’re not a monolith. We happen to have a lot of black bloggers who submit.  We also happen to have non-black POC who submit. Quite often. So maybe you should check the original author. Before you come in this ask with this anti-black  bull shit again.

The last part is shit. Shut up.

tavvybaby asked: "It's okay if POC do it, but if white people do it it's wrong". How the hell is that not racism at it's most basic level?

1. Stop spamming us
2. Your understanding of racism is too low for me to teach you
3. I don’t have to teach you.
4. I’m not sure why you spam us if you have already decided to not understand

And most importantly,

Fuck off (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

ascetyczny asked: Can you please show me part in constitution which states that people are not equal and that white people have more rights than black people? Can you provide me RELIABLE sources which prove that black people are opressed in work places/colleges or that there's actually some study proving that black people can't get into some institution just because of their skin colour? If you can't provide these things then I assume you dont know what you preach or they simply don't exist.

I’ve never seen so much white privilege in one ask. Congrats, you won!

Here’s your prize:

I’m laughing like crazy cause you think the constitution controls day to day life. Have you heard of the term “de facto”?

White privilege is deeming anything you disagree with “unreliable”. Unreliable is code word for POC. Why don’t you read Black Like Me?  It’s a book written by, you guessed it a WHITE guy. It’s totally reliable. You don’t need to believe the experiences POC say they have when you can read it from someone who is reliable.

Have you never taken a Womens Studies course? African American Studies? Civil Rights? Asian American? Of course you haven’t! The sources these courses use are unreliable, aka by POC. Heard of Stokely Carmichael? How about Angela Davis? They write extensively on non-existent racism. Of course you haven’t. They weren’t mentioned in your reliable primary education textbooks.

-CS

What do you guize want rebloggable? 

Provide links and I will screenshot them.

And from now on, if you want something rebloggable, just submit us the link with the word “[always reblog]” as the title and I, Renleigh, will personally see to it that it gets done. 

Or* you can screenshot it yourself and just put it on your blog and we will reblog it from you if you tell us you did it. 

Sound fair?

=RtK

Just in case, tumblr staff wants to pretend we don’t get harassed on this site. 

I don’t know why these people keep coming to this blog every day sending anonymous vitriol other then they are racists or white supremacist and have submitted to a life in which they are wholly satisfied with white supremacy, whiteness and the harassment of any people of color who feel as though this society causes detriment to those who cannot survive comfortably in that society. 

These people want us silenced, but their actions really only spur our cause. 

This is whiteness. 

This is white supremacy.

This …is white privilege.

Just a look into what we deal with here at This is White Privilege. 

What we do here is try to create a space where people of color can have discourse about white privilege. Which inevitably will mean white people and others who heavily internalized racism will want to butt in…as shown here.

People of color, throughout history and currently across the world, have been denied time to commune, time to heal, time to build, time to grieve and apparently, our spaces online will spur someone to want to deny us space to do these things now. 

I’m sure this person patted themselves on the pack after they spent a few minutes thinking up these clever but recycled quips. At least now we have yet another example of why racism hasn’t just disappeared and yet another privilege illuminated. The privilege to harass without consequence. 

-kingbee

thisiswhiteprivilege:

I just don’t understand. This one person keeps sending hate mail to TIWP. Like clockwork. They are so upset that POC dare have a space of their own. And there’s one site dedicated to solely make poor arguments against every post submitted. Except once they began to explain why a privilege isn’t white privilege. They’ve already lost. Cause the oppressor can’t define what “counts” as oppression.  I should’ve taken screen shots, but they’ll be back. I’ll need some help to track them and expose their racist ass. 

Any suggestions?

The problem is they are submitting from an email address.

I just don’t understand. This one person keeps sending hate mail to TIWP. Like clockwork. They are so upset that POC dare have a space of their own. And there’s one site dedicated to solely make poor arguments against every post submitted. Except once they began to explain why a privilege isn’t white privilege. They’ve already lost. Cause the oppressor can’t define what “counts” as oppression.  I should’ve taken screen shots, but they’ll be back. I’ll need some help to track them and expose their racist ass. 

Any suggestions?

You think your so tough pointing out white privilege, face it you hate white people. Don’t give me this shit about how you don’t if I said anything negative about PoCs, you’d claim it was proof I hated them. Your right though, I don’t particularly like them. Here is the funny thing though, you can only sit here and write this shit because MY people LET you fucking do it. The whole point of white privilege is that whites control the world right, and that we default towards racism. The funny thing is that by taking the viewpoint, your basically saying that anything PoCs have achieved, we have allowed you to it. Your whole attitude is that if a PoC does something great, somewhere down the line whitey decided not to be as bad that day, because we’re all powerful and otherwise could have prevented you from achieving. Here’s the best part, your totally fucking right. White people ended apartheid, white people ended slavery, white people created affirmative action, white people allow you to go to school, to eat, to get social security. We even got a you a black president, I mean he’s not really black, but hes black enough. Cry all you want but we are the hand that feeds you, and thanks to the attitude you have, itll stay that way. By moving your locus of control outward, you give up your freedom, and that’s fine with us. Act tough all you want, but if my race and your race went toe to toe, and we really wanted to, you’d be in fucking death camps within months. Life’s not fair, sucks to suck.

Mod note: I’ll just leave this here as shining example of white people.

paintingmirth asked: The Beatles are shit and so is this blog

This blog is bigger than jesus what are you doing with your life

Anonymous asked: I really wish this blog were run by someone less full of hate. It really is such a great idea- which I do commend you for. You have proven to be a very intelligent person, and could really do a lot of good in changing the attitude& actions of white people, but instead claim for your only objective to be "compiling" and therefore rid yourself of any responsibility. I'm a white cisfemale with SO MUCH to learn on this subject,

but because ‘that’s not what this blog is for’, I’m missing out on some potentially life-changing advice via you; someone who cares enough about white privilege to make a blog about it, but not enough to try to FIX what wrongs we’ve done by simply responding to asks without spewing hate, anger, apathy, condescension and argumentativeness. Shit, half the time you don’t even read through the whole ask before deciding what they meant to say and answering it from what you choose to hear. Even with this ask, my guess is that you’ll only hear me saying that you’re full of hate and you’ll respond with justification for your hate and that you didn’t have any ‘responsibility’ to begin with. I sincerely hope that you don’t, though. I put more thought into this than I meant to, I hope you can respect that. This is me asking(in a way that could admittedly be more polite) for you to please help me learn how to check my privilege, to please be an example of how to retort and defend against racism and privilege in a distinguished, educated and “bigger-man” fashion. I’m genuinely sorry if “my privilege is showing” and I sound like an idiot. Can you help me fix that?

I just had to post this. You know what, white cis female? I’m going to do exactly what you asked. I’m going to individually explain to you everything about this message that makes you sound like an idiot, and I’ll even tell you why it makes you sound like an idiot, why this message in all its passive aggressive niceness is one of the most racist messages I’ve received in awhile. That’s right. I deleted five different posts calling me a nigger this morning, but this is the only message that legitimately upset. Now, I’m not doing this for you, because I know that even though you explicitly asked me to do this, you’ll still refuse to believe that you’re capable of any hate, and you’ll do what you’ve been doing from the beginning: dismissing any criticism of whiteness as hatred of white people. Shall we begin?

1. “I really wish this blog were run by someone less full of hate.” There are pages and pages on this blog that explain that I don’t hate white people and that criticism of whiteness is not hate. However, you choose to ignore those posts in favor of crafting your own image of this blog, an image that better protects your feelings. It’s easy to dismiss this stuff when you’re able to find an excuse like “oh, he hates white people.” 
2. “You have proven yourself to be very intelligent.” You assume my intelligence is something I have to prove, and also assume I should care that you have improved of my intelligence. That’s condescending.
3. “…but instead claim for your only objective to be “compiling” and therefore rid yourself of any responsibility.” You put a condition on my intelligence. You imply that my intelligence is somehow less legitimate because I do not run my blog in the way you think I should. You also call me honesty into question, taking the explicitly stated purpose of this blog and trying to make it seem as if this is a calculated effort to spite white people (again, despite hundreds of posts on this blog stating that it has nothing to do with white people). You also place responsibility for educating the oppressor on the oppressed.
4. “because ‘that’s not what this blog is for’, I’m missing out on some potentially life-changing advice via you.” You assume you are entitled to my blog and my intelligence for your own benefit, despite me explicitly stating several times I have no desire to educate white people on white privilege.
5. “Even with this ask, my guess is that you’ll only hear me saying that you’re full of hate and you’ll respond with justification for your hate and that you didn’t have any ‘responsibility’ to begin with.” A favorite white supremacist tactic of mine: defining the terms of the discussion in your favor. Hear, you have made assumptions about my response, assumptions which are based on additional assumptions about my character which ignore my explicit statements, and you’ve pre-decided that if I do not respond to your message with kindness, then I lose the argument. White supremacists love to do this, because it lets them feel as if they’ve won something without even having to argue.
6. “I put more thought into this than I meant to, I hope you can respect that.” The posts you put thought into should be valued, yet you have dismissed hundreds of my posts by sending me this long-winded message. You have implied that your feelings are somehow more important than mine, or that you put more thought into your feelings than I do.
7. “This is me asking(in a way that could admittedly be more polite) for you to please help me learn how to check my privilege.” This is my favorite part: in a message about how I should be more polite, you tell me that I should be nice to you even though your message has not been polite. Do I even have to explain how entitled and condescending that is?
8. “…to please be an example of how to retort and defend against racism and privilege in a distinguished, educated and “bigger-man” fashion.” You are judging me based on my responses not fitting into the mold whiteness has determined for writing about sociopolitical issues. What are the connotations of those words: distinguished, educated, etc.? Do I not fulfill them because I curse? Or because I write in Black Vernacular English at times? Or because I refuse to stifle my anger for whiteness to spare the feelings of white people? Do you see the pattern forming here?
9. “I’m genuinely sorry if “my privilege is showing” and I sound like an idiot. Can you help me fix that?” I just did, but you will ignore it, which is why I don’t bother educating.

beckybakers-deactivated20120619 asked: you sir, are very rude. you don't just get up and tell me to "fuck out of here". you're not contributing to society, you're not fixing any of my problems. Great minds discuss ideas, medium minds discuss issues and small minds discuss PEOPLE. you are small minded and have no use on this planet. good bye.

Fuck outta here.

Psh, never thought I’d see the day when a 13 year old Degrassi fan girl lectures me about the difference between great minds and “medium” minds. lol.

Anonymous asked: you're so fucking rude about it though and its off-putting as fuck. there are good people out there who want to do all they can to make sure poc are treated equally as whites and you just slam them down because of their skin color. like really? would you rather they not give a fuck?

“I’m not going to help PoC unless they’re nice to me. Totes not racist though.”