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“When people of color attempt to critically intervene and oppose white supremacy, particularly around the issue of representation, we are often dismissed as pushing narrow political correctness, or simply characterize as being no fun. Writing about cultural appropriation in ‘English is Broken Here’ Coco Fusco explains: “The socialization I and many other affirmative action babies received to identify racism as the property only of ignorant, reactionary people, preferably from the past, functioned to deflect our attention from how whiteness operated in the present… To raise the specter of racism in the here and now, to suggest that despite their political beliefs and sexual preferences, white people operate within, and benefit from, white supremacist social structures is still tantamount to a declaration of war.” When white supremacy is challenged and resisted, people of color and our allies in the struggle risk the censorship that emerges when those who hold the power to dominate simply say to us, “You are extremist, you are the real racist, you are playing the race card.” Of course the real irony is that we are not actually allowed to play at the game of race, we are merely pawns in the hands of those who invent the games and determine the rules.”

—(via tabularasae)

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{ LINK: there is no end to the assholery (*trigger warning* for racism/white apologism) }

dandamon:

dandamon:

the gongoozler who loved me: Black Mother Jailed for Sending Kids to White School District

sheresists:

firesandwords:

Black Mother Jailed For Sending Kids to White School District

An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years…

How long will the african americans play the race card? I’ve worked damn hard for everything I have in my life and have had equal opportunity to obtain it. There are so many social welfare programs set up help minorities and there are very many african americans who are far more successful than I am. They have equal right to the exact same public education that I had. If you want to talk about where “white folks” have a better education? That would be private schooling where even I can’ t afford to go. The problem is with the public education system, not the racial divide. Every school in America is allowed subsequent funding based on the population it serves.

You’re full of shit.  I agree with firesandwords — “equal opportunity” is a damn myth.  It’d do you well to think for yourself rather than just sitting back and letting the Whitey Brainwashing Ray go to work on you.

(via whiskeyforyourthoughts)

{ a better takedown (*trigger warning* for racism/white apologism) }

sheresists:

firesandwords:

Smash the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy: dandamon: the gongoozler who loved me: Black Mother Jailed for Sending…

dandamon:

dandamon:

the gongoozler who loved me: Black Mother Jailed for Sending Kids to White School District

sheresists:

firesandwords:

Black Mother Jailed For Sending Kids to White School District

An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years…

How long will the african americans play the race card? I’ve worked damn hard for everything I have in my life and have had equal opportunity to obtain it. There are so many social welfare programs set up help minorities and there are very many african americans who are far more successful than I am. They have equal right to the exact same public education that I had. If you want to talk about where “white folks” have a better education? That would be private schooling where even I can’ t afford to go. The problem is with the public education system, not the racial divide. Every school in America is allowed subsequent funding based on the population it serves.

africans will play the ‘race card’ as long as the ‘race card is delt to them. that is the card of white supremacy, racism, classism and inequality.  there may be africans more successful than you, but that is not proportionate to racial and economic disparities that exist in this country. i think your analysis lacks serious context. african people (not the only folks w/ disproportionately underprivileged access to good, empowering education) were stolen, murdered, raped, tortured, hunted, marginaized, criminalized and kept captive as slaves in a feudal system and then slowly ‘freed’ into a violently racist capitalist system, and left to compete with a largely racist or ignorant white working class for industrial jobs (read: j sakai’s ‘mythology of the white proletariat’). nobody wants to depend on the government to be taken care of. but again, when you keep an entire people captive as slaves and then say, ‘you’re on your own’ in a segregated and white supremacist society, it’s admittedly going to be a bit of a struggle. not only did slavery not officially ‘end’ with the civil war, but neither did segregation end with the civil rights era. you wouldn’t have to look far to read about how america’s public education system is more racially segregated today than it was during official ‘segregation’. (johnathon kozol’s ‘the shame of the nation’ is the only book i’ve read and know much about, but i’m sure there are much better resources to find out about this.

african communities and most communities of color are essentialy occupied by the police. going into the ‘wrong’ neighborhood or ‘wrong’ side of town, sudden movements, reaching in your pockets, hanging out in crowds can get you anything from harassment to death at the hands of the police. black folks are kept in poor communities by violent force.

when they want to get their children into a public education system with more resources and funding, (usually white school systems) this is the shit that happens.

Ugh. I can’t even deal with the person who commented above firesandwords. 

Reblogging for awesome commentary.

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“…that what is currently recognized as queer studies is, for instance, unacceptably Euro-American in orientation, its purview effectively determined by the practically invisible—because putatively nonexistent—bounds of racial whiteness. It encompasses as well (to continue for the moment with the topic of whiteness) the abiding failure of most supposed queer critique to subject whiteness itself to sustained interrogation and thus to delineate its import in sexual terms, whether conceived in normative or nonnormative modes. In other words, to speak personally, it bothers me less that white practitioners of queer critique tend not to address the significance of racial nonwhiteness in the phenomena of sex and sexuality they explore (though one often wishes they would, and, indeed, some do) than that they tend not to address the effect of racial whiteness on the very manifestations of those phenomena and on their understanding of them; for the upshot of this failure—somewhat paradoxically, given the interest of queer criticism in definitional fluidity—is an implicit acquiescence to received notions of what constitutes sex and sexuality, however nonnormative, as though the current hegemony in this regard were not thoroughly imbricated with the ongoing maintenance of white supremacist culture.”

—

Phillip Brian Harper—The Evidence of Felt Intuition: Minority Experience, Everyday Life, and Critical Speculative Knowledge

This black critique on the cultivation of “queer knowledges” is really interesting.  Maybe I’ve been reading too much Foucault but it’s interesting to see how sexuality has been constructed through forms of (white) domination and power (the discourse of medicine, law, institutions of power).  This searing critique starts to make links between race and sexuality as mutually informing, but also unique in their positionalities.

(via queerinsurrection)

i’ve been struggling with this lately in my reading up on trans* issues, non-binarism, gender queerness and fluidity etc. it just seems like gender itself (as well as the means to escape/challenge binarism) is imagined and conceived of in very white terms. or at least, i don’t see any acknowledgment/engagement with the notion that gender can be and is constructed and lived in different ways, specifically in ways related to culture and race. for example that notions of racial authenticity and loyalty (and religion!) are tied up to gender within communities of color in ways that they’re not for white folks, and that there’s a risk of cultural alienation for not adhering to hetero/ciscentric gender norms that’s simply not there for white folks. a white post-op trans woman is not going to get accused of not being “really” white or of setting back/wanting to damage the race. or of being whitewashed, or an oreo, etc. and stuff like how uneven access to health care or greater economic instability affects how trans* and genderqueer identities are lived. if anyone knows of any resources that talks about this stuff, i’d appreciate a link.

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“I talk about the landing at Jamestown, and about the pilgrim fathers coming over in 1620. I talk about what the dominant culture has done, and all of a sudden I get a bunch of red-faced, uncomfortable people talking about “white-bashing”: “What? Are you talking about me?”
    I reply, “Not unless you’re old enough to have been around in 1620. I’m not white-bashing. I’m just recounting what happened. But you’re really uncomfortable with what happened, aren’t you? You’re identifying with something here, and I didn’t identify you with it. You did.”
    The lightbulb goes on now. You think you’re “white”—whatever that is, that’s an invented term, too—and since I’m talking about white people, you feel some need to identify with them, with the perpetrators of the massacre. That’s exactly the psychology that perpetuates the legacy of it. You didn’t do it, so why are you defending it? You don’t have to, because you can oppose it just as easily as you can embrace it. But you can’t do both at once. You can separate yourself from what has been done—and what’s being done. But first you have to call what’s being done by its right name.”

—Ward Churchill, Listening To The Land (via cuntymint)

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tranzient:

For those who claim they’ve never experienced white privilege…

stfuracists:

(submitted by haleysunshine via stuffwhitepeopledo)

Some examples which might jog your memory:

  • As I walked around in several stores today, I never felt self-conscious about my race.
  • I never felt outnumbered by people of a different race.
  • As I drove down the highway at my usual ten miles per hour over the speed limit, I never worried that my race could make me a more likely target for a ticket.
  • As I drove through small towns on my lengthy commute to work, I never felt a need to remind myself that some of them were, until quite recently, sundown towns, and that most or all of them still weren’t exactly welcoming to people who are not the same color as me.
  • When I cut my finger while cooking tonight, the bandages that I’d hastily grabbed from a grocery store shelf pretty much matched the color of my skin.
  • When I spoke with a white colleague about the extra and excessive scrutiny that a recent black job candidate had received compared to the white ones, my claims were met with skepticism, but I never felt that my own race further discredited what I was saying. I realized that instead, it did the opposite.
  • As I thought about the conversation afterward, I realized that I have never faced the many stress-inducing trials that a successful black job candidate would face in my workplace—and that in fact, my whiteness continually paves a smoother, less stressful path before me as I navigate that workplace.
  • Throughout the day and into the evening, no negative incidents occurred that made me wonder if what happened had something to do with my race.
  • When I had dinner at a multiracial gathering, I never felt self-conscious in racial terms about which foods I should eat.
  • When I arrived late for that gathering, I didn’t worry about whether my lateness was a bad reflection on me in terms of my racial status.
  • As I conversed with my friends, I never worried if anything about my manner of speaking or the words and phrases that I used might reflect badly on me in terms of race.
  • As I sat in my car alone on a quiet street at night, waiting for some friends to emerge from a house, I never worried that my race could make me a potential target for harassment by police.
  • As I sat in my car alone on a quiet street at night, I realized that if I had encountered the police at any point during the day, the law enforcement official would probably have been a member of my own race. Even if he or she had not been, I would be likely to trust that person to deal with me fairly and respectfully, and I would not have worried in either case that my race would put me at risk in the encounter.
  • As I now head for bed, I realize that I’ll probably sleep better than I would if I were not white, having had that much less of a stressful day.

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{ Still reading that 14th amendment… }

radicallyhottoff:

and the interesting thing is—the first clause of the amendment, which is the citizenship clause that makes any person born on US soil a natural citizen, is often pointed to by nativists as “it was intended to deal with slaves who had been denied citizenship!” thus we must interpret it narrowly and with that in mind. the intention of making slaves citizens is not relevant to the children of undocumented workers today. Right?

and as such, it is a perfectly legitimate thing to question and even take away the natural citizenship of children of undocumented workers.

but the next part of the clause—

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

was put in *specifically* to deal with a still writhing white supremacist south that had inflicted all sorts of racialized violence in the reconstruction/post reconstruction era. In other words, it was meant to deal *specifically* with white supremacy as it enacted itself against non-white people (who were not indians—who were NOT given citizenship w/this amendment). It is an amendment that *intended* to protect non-white people from white supremacy.

and indeed, that amendment *has*—it has played a significant role in protecting the rights of *specifically non-white people* throughout its existence—desegregated housing, desegregated busing, desegregated schooling, redistricting, business ownership, and, indeed, the citizenship of children born to non-citizens—are among just some of the cases influenced/based on upholding the 14th amendment. 

And what’s more, the courts have even ruled that the 14th *does indeed* apply to those who are non-white and not black (i.e. Latinos, Asians, etc). Hernandez v Texas in 1954 ruled (unanimously at that) that the 14th protects *Mexican Americans specifically*—and all other racialized groups generally. In other words, it stated that 

The Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment protects those beyond the racial classes of white or negro, and extends to other racial groups, such as Mexican American in this case.

So—while the original intent of the law may not have intended to give citizenship to the children of undocumented workers (even as the court has ruled that it *does*)—it *was* intended to protect racialized peoples from white supremacy and white supremacists.

It makes a lot of sense to me now why white supremacists are so intent in attacking that specific amendment. It is a law intended to *stop them*. 

Any way…an important thing to remember in the immigration debate.

this is why i love the internet — i would never have learned any of this from the news and likely would not have learned it from school.

(via bigbadcolored-deactivated201104)

{ LINK: Angry Black Lady: "Firedoglake: With All Due Civility, Go F**k Yourself" (*trigger warning* for racism, racist apologism, and anti-semitism) }

A month ago, I wrote a post about the racism which is festering and beginning to ooze out of the open sore known as Firedoglake.  Essentially, my point was that if FDL continues to ban opposing viewpoints in its comment section, it owns the racism contained therein.  Soon after that post, I stopped reading FDL because it was doing nothing but raising my blood pressure.

Well, last night I took a break from not reading FDL and, like a dumbass, I read FDL.  Here’s what I found in a post about restoring the unions and strengthening the labor movement…

*Massive Trigger Warning* — Read on for coverage of FireDogLake racism (specifically: disgusting self-serving use of racist language in order to be “edgy” and “shocking”, and racist apologism in the comments) and anti-semitism.

NOTE: This is not actually the piece I saw that made me get the hell away from FireDogLake.  I may be able to link to that post later.

“We want to trigger a Supreme Court review of the phrase ‘subject to jurisdiction thereof’ which is contained in the 14th Amendment.”

—

Birthright Citizenship Fight—From Ariz. to the Supreme Court? - COLORLINES

here it is. right out in bold for everybody to see (bolding mine, by the way). Being subject to the jurisdiction thereof—that does NOT mean ‘being eligible for food stamps or welfare’ —that means the right to *nation/state protection* from the usurpation of constitutional rights or violence directed at you based on specific characteristics of your community. 

this is not about protecting US citizens right to welfare or social security (which are both programs these particular groups of people want to see END for ALL citizens), this is about white supremacists having the right to violate as they please. And it’s about reinforcing the power of white supremacists over those they deem inferior.

(via radicallyhottoff)

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{ My Quota Of Teh Reverse-Racism Is Done Today }

jaded16india:

I wrote at the Feminist Hub today. Thought of cross-posting it here too, in case this person wants to carry on the douchefuckery and I need proof! Lesson: Don’t Challenge Dusty Ladies About Orientalism. You will never win. Not even if you give good food for free. 

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Embrace the faceless, the unnamed.: thefeministhub: Embrace the faceless, the unnamed.: Next on the…

thefeministhub:

Original post was too long. So I’ve cut the commentary.

I swear, sometimes people will actively look for reasons to trash someone. Cut the shit.

The line, “Don’t be a drag, just be a queen,” has absolutely no transphobic implications unless you are literally digging them out. In fact, it could actually be seen as a simple play on words in favor of drag queens. Stop making conflict out of what isn’t there.

The derail on the term, “orient”.. One, it’s a word. A vocabulary word with no traditional (or modern for that matter) pejorative implications. It’s a term derived from the rise of the sun to refer to the east. While it may not be common or politically accurate, it’s not demeaning nor racist, and, as you mentioned, it fits the rhyme scheme..no harm done.

And if you’re honestly telling someone that they can’t speak out for others simply because they are a wealthy, privileged individual, I’m sure there are MANY issues you should kindly shut up about yourself. Fact of the matter, when you’re in the public eye you have the ability to inspire others with a message, and her message is to be proud of who you are, despite your struggles. I see NO implication of her knowing what each and every individual is going through, and I doubt she would ever make that claim. She’s trying to speak to a broad audience, she’s trying to help others be proud of themselves, she’s trying to make a difference.

She’s trying. And I’m damn sure it’s working. And that’s a hell of a lot more than I can say about a lot of people in the public eye, or people in general.

So, take your pin-holed and extorted remarks and shove them down a hole. How dare you shame someone trying to make a difference, especially with a primary reason being simply because they’re in a position to do so. Sure, she has money. She has fame. Give me money and I’m still the same person. I’m gay, I’ve been sexually abused, my dad committed suicide, my mom has been to jail, I’ve been threatened with death. If I’m put in the public eye, does my so-called privilege discount what I’ve been through? Are you in a position to tell me what I can and can’t speak on because of what I have? No.

But you know what? She’s not speaking on the behalf of anyone, she’s speaking TO people. To people who may need it. So calm your angst-ridden arrogant self, listen to music with lyrics that you don’t forcibly misconstrue to offend you, and talk about real issues that actually matter.

Thanks.

Huh. Your post is so much full of epicphail that I was facepalming for a quite a while without knowing quite why, just muttering several exotic swears to myself till I realised I was having a severe ghastly allergy to your privilege. Let’s dismantle the nincompoopism, shall we?

  • You’re saying “Don’t be a drag, be a queen” isn’t problematic and it’s just us silly pesky feminists and other social justice activists who had a problem with the line. It’s not lyke it’s telling trans peeps how to behave in the most douchefucketty patronising way ever, or is again policing or normalising ‘one kind of trans*’ body/action over another. Soree, this must be our flawed perception and the idea of civil respect getting in the way.
  • Orient is a word. So is douchefuck. And so is Colonialism. See a pattern here? I’ll be clear: When one uses the word Orient without quotes, or without a punch of irony, that means you are not being sarcastic and you mean it when you say Orient. And it’s not just “a term derived from the rise of the sun to refer to the east.”. Heard of that pesky leetal things like colonialism? You know that blotch in history where some white peeps decided to hang out in my country for some 200+ years and did some notverynice things lyke raping, plundering and exploiting us in any way they could? So when a dusty lady lyke me hears this term EVEN WHEN IT RHYMES, I explode in rage, so hard that my internal organs melt at the same tyme and cause a dust-storm.
  • Okay, tyme for a leetal lesson in Tokenism: You drop names and then don’t do shit. Lyke someone may say, “See I have a friend who squats delligently in the ditches everyday! This means I am a nice person because who else would be-friend a ditch-squatting person, no?”. Here you can substitute any race-ethnic and/or sexual minority in the way white privileged peeps lyke Lady Gaga do and then you drop names and ethnicities and brag saying “Oh look at me! I am so liberal and shit!”. Meanwhile peeps who do get appropriated are stewing but no one cares about that because “those damn buggers are always angry”, no?
  • “At least she’s trying”, that excuse died the moment it was born, just for fyi and other side-side info.
  • I’m sorry you went through that crap. I honestly am, no one should be put through that crap. No one is saying that people with privileges speak up or out. The more peepal advocating for social justice, the better. BUT, saying transphobic, colonial-empire-hugging shit lyke this doesn’t and will never go without critique.
  • And the last thing? Gaga isn’t speaking TO peepal. She’s speaking OF and FOR minorities, in the worst way possible. So no, no love from me. 

~ Jaded

No, I’m saying it is a problem if you turn it into one. As a song, it is actually pretty harmless, lyrics and all. I understand that GaGa has supposedly used transphobic rhetoric before, but that’s not to say she is a transphobic individual. Her use of lady amongst other things can likely be attributed to ignorance. I’m not going to preach for ignorance being acceptable, because I don’t feel that way in the slightest, but minor ignorance is understandable considering how relatively recent transgender issues are being brought into the public eye.

Gay is also a word. It can be used with pejorative and offensive implications. It can also be used harmlessly amongst peers to signal group affiliation or understanding. eg. “You’re fucking gay.” vs. “Oh, you’re gay?” A term can attain a discriminatory meaning through a variety of ways, the two most prominent and relevant being if the term is invented pejoratively (faggot, nigger), or used in a demeaning way (see previous example). Orient would fall under the classification of the latter. You can not group it with douchefuck because the word fuck was invented as slang with an implication of power over another individual and cultured to be “vulgar”. Orient is not necessarily discriminatory nor is GaGa intending it to be.

Your next point made literally no sense, go attain a dictionary. I’ll attempt to make sense of what you’re saying though. If you are genuinely trying to imply that simply because someone is privileged, that they aren’t able to take a stand for others, you are invalidating all forms of activism and advocacy while making an argument that is ad hominem to begin with. I understand that she has money, that she is white, that she has more luxuries than most of us. But one, that doesn’t discount her own struggles. Two, that doesn’t revoke her ability to speak out for others. The argument of privilege is so overdone and blown out of proportion that I actually find it intolerable at this point. It would be different is she were telling people to just “get over it” or attempting to discount their personal problems. That would - completely understandably - warrant criticism and rage. But that’s not what’s happening. The message of the song is to be proud of who you are, and to be yourself, because that is damned important.

And she is right, it is important to accept who you are and be proud of it, because it is almost always the first step to pushing forward.

Next, I said she’s trying and trying effectively. You are ignorant to think that her efforts are fruitless. And no, the trying argument is not worn out by any means. Could you even begin to imagine the horror of a public figure as big as her speaking for concepts such as tolerance for sexism, racism, and the like? What you have to understand is that she is in fact a human being, who is trying to send a message to (not FOR) others in an effective manner that she is capable of. And her message is a positive one unless you misconstrue it to be otherwise.

Lastly, I’d be astonished if you could give me a reasonable example of her using her so-called privilege to discount others’ struggles and speak for them - invalidate them. In fact, the only use of the word “we” in the song itself was “We are all born superstars,” and I couldn’t agree more, we are all born beautiful with infinite potential, no matter what.

And wow. The privilege denying doesn’t stop! At this point, I don’t know why this even surprises me. Anyway, let’s get into deconstruction the way this poster will understand because it seems my third-world-pride-and-glory of speaking as one does in ditches (which is where I’m from fyi) didn’t become betrosed to this poster’s heart! Never worry. We third world peeps know exactly wattodo in this situation. Just imagine everything I write from now on in an English accent. Not only will my words start making sense, they will sound prettier too. This tried-and-tested method is brought on by 200+ years of colonisation in my country. 

Going to your reply: 

1. Let us imagine a leetal skit. I’ll be the dusty lady in the mud, squatting and then someone comes up to me and says, “I will use your identity to further my popularity and you’ll be okay with it, okay? Okay”. Then this person further goes on to physically hurt me, take my dusty skin away, parade it around and lump it lyke its exotic fruit. And when I say, “I want my skin back! NO! You can’t use it as fruit” I get to hear “It’s only a problem if you make it one”. So when anyone takes my skin away (or appropriates me), and then says I shouldn’t complain, I want to give them my Medusa Glare and use my third worldly powers on them and make them fade away. Gaga has used transphobic rhetoric before too. Notice what I did there? No ‘supposedly’. There are plenty of critiques on her transphobic slurs and subtexts all over the interwebes. Use teh Google. It is magic! Motherpromise. And whether trans* issues are the new in SJ circles or not isn’t the issue here. Considering Gaga’s popularity, she has to be more careful about words she uses. Otherwise it’s going to be a phust number one epicphail.

2. I started literally facepalming here. Are you saying “gay” and “orient” are words that people shouldn’t find offensive if the INTENTION is right? Lesson one: Intention doesn’t fucking matter. Never did. British peeps had “good intentions” and wanted to “humanise the world” too. But they ended up hanging out in more than two-thirds of the world, without an invitation, that too and staying there. From this hanging-out-type fascination thing, comes the word Orient, designed to pornificate dusty peepals lyke me. So, yes, no matter what “intent” this is I’m going to do the reverse-racism and rage. Orient is discriminatory if you look at it from the front center behind side slant look, okay? Okay.

3. I WILL NEVER EVER GO TO A DICTIONARY! You know, I spent most of my formative years squatting in ditches and playing with rabies-infected third worldly dogs. Then when we’d get hungry, we’d eat dictionaries and that’s how I learnt engliss. Now, I want to revert this process. So I will never speak lyke you, okay? Not even when you give me a plate of undiseased food. Some principles stick, no matter what.

4. I never said if you’re not the oppressed minority, you can’t speak up withthem. What Gaga or at least the song’s narrative does is notverynice. It takes names of these peeps, that are of different races or ethnicities, adorns it lyke the exotics necklace culture can obviously be pornificated into and that’s it. Lyke her earlier epic-facepalm-inducing song ‘Alejandro’, this song too talks about a racial minority (you can do the plurals here and say ‘minorities’ if this bothers you too much) through her lens, which is cis-female (as she vehemently asserts!), white and class-privileged. Let’s do teh historyvision for a minute and think when was the last tyme white peeps narrativised other racial or ethnic minorities. O THAT’S RITE. ALL THE FUCKING TYME.

5. I have bigbad issues with “efforts”, we can never know if she’s even making them. What we can see are the “effects” of her songs. And it mainly boils down to appropriation, privilege, prioritising white narratives over others. So no, she’s still not doing anything out of the ordinary.

Also, one thing that I did want to point out is this: Assuming I don’t or can’t write good english — why does this matter anyway? — just because I play around with words is pretty fucking Orientalist of you. AND THIS IS HOW WE USE THE WORD. 

~ Jaded. 

Absolutely awesome epic takedown there.  What an awful person — I hope they learn their lesson, or at least stop bothering you.

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