La Lioness Priyanka
La Lioness Priyanka's JournalJust to be clear, Garner was not killed due to taxation, he was killed because he was black
i am not sure what all these anti tax memes are, but taxes is not how and why he died. conflating the two is appropriate for worldnetdaily but not for DU.
Also just to clarify, i believe conflation occurs when you raise an unrelated issue into the middle of another issue. So for instance, talking about black on black crime in the middle of a conversation on racism, raising the issue of OJ when Warren was not indicted, and taxes when talking about Garner.
You're not going to like me for saying this, but I am going to say it anyway
Words like rethuglican, floriduh, repukes, rapeublicans, utards etc. lower the quality of the debate we have, and make you sounds less than intelligent.
Also, using several of these 'words' makes the writing itself less clear.
Not sure why intelligent adults do it, but I really wish they would stop.
A short rant about the need for victims to be perfect & react perfectly to violence and oppression
I am sick of hearing about how victims and victimized communities should react to violence and oppression. The reality is when faced with violence and oppression and constant discrimination, most of us break social mores. However, i really hate how much the media focuses on these 'riots' or 'looting' rather than what instigated these transgressions. Also, in my experience the media grossly exaggerates about how bad things are (remember, Katrina) when covering the transgressions of the victimized community.
I literally can't stand it.
Victims and victimized communities do not need to be perfect to have certain inalienable civil rights.
I am the American left and I do not support fundamentalism in any religion.
Nor do I support the meaningless killing of people because of their religion/ethnicity.
It is not a love that dares not speak its name. It is mere consistency in my beliefs.
I also am not a fool and don't get taken in by pink-washing an issue.
I bet I am not the only one.
Yes, acknowledging privilege is hard work.
It's difficult to admit that through no fault of our own necessarily, our race/gender/sexual orientation/sexual identity/religion/caste/ level of education gives us a certain access that we would necessarily not have had if we were members of that particular privileged category.
However, without knowing how your particular social group membership privileges you, it becomes impossible for you to see how others are equivalently oppressed by their group memberships.
For instance, I am queer but gender conforming, which means that on a daily basis I don't get harassed for being queer. However, my wife does.
To understand oppression, one needs to understand the opposite of oppression (privilege).
No one is seeking to make you 'confess' your privilege, but being aware of your privilege makes you more likely to understand how the lack of it effects other people.
It's really your choice whether or not you want to be defensive about this privilege, or understand how your privilege works in a society. However, I really doubt that you know better than the oppressed group how they should go about talking about their oppression.
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