bcarpizo:

stfuconservatives:

w/r/t The Arkh Project: it is, in fact, significant that a straight white cis person tried to shut down the Arkh Project. It’s not just “some bigot.” The game will feature non-straight, non-white, non-cis people. Specifically. So someone to whom the game will not cater specifically tried to shut…

Cool, yeah, I know how physically difficult it can be to type “some” sometimes.

My bad for not being able to inherently read your mind. lmfao. Just being a liberal doesn’t entitle you to a benefit of the doubt. I’m not going to assume you DON’T mean ALL of a certain group just because you’re liberal, and liberals hate bigots…

Just think, if someone from the left wing made a similar mistake, we’d be all over that too.

We don’t say SOME because it allows ignorant people the ability to mentally remove themselves from the issue. If we or anyone else were to say “some white people oppress non-white people” you would be able to think “Oh well I know that I’m not oppressing anybody! They must not be talking about me!” When the reality is you probably don’t even realize the myriad of ways your day-to-day is perpetuating oppression against others. 

But here’s the key, and I think it’s the one most people miss, privilege and being a member of an oppressive group doesn’t make you an inherently bad person. Usually it only makes you an ignorant person, and that you can improve upon. Recognize your privilege: see where you’ve been given an opportunity others might not have had, notice and think about the things you’re lucky enough to not have to notice or think about on a constant basis. Take that consideration and (hopefully) new found knowledge and work towards a better future for everyone.

It’s also important to remember that your actions, however positive, don’t void your “oppressive privileged group” member card but really that’s something you just have to get over. Society is bigger than you, me and tumblr, it takes a whole lot of people a whole lot of time to change and improve society. It’s not impossible but it is daunting and it isn’t helped by removing yourself from the inequalities by saying “well don’t you mean SOME ____ people?”

-Joe