parcai:
tharini-deactivated20201019:
hmmm… ok, people of colour are not exempt from being racist. it’s just seen as being more discreet and is backed up with excuses like ‘well, i’m desi, i can’t be racist’ or ‘yeah, but i’m a person of colour’ and that’s just not correct. anyone is capable of racism, it’s not white vs poc, that’s why you can’t group together poc struggles. all of us have different problems, there will always be a separation between black people and nb poc and people need to understand that and the reasoning behind it. but just because you face discrimination and racism does not mean you have any excuses to treat someone else the same way. you can not use slurs that don’t apply to you. the ‘n-word pass’ does not exist, there is no such thing as passes for slurs, just half-assed excuses. so everyone, repeat after me: anyone can be racist
actually the desi example ESPECIALLY pisses me off because i don’t think you guys realize just how racist asia is.
guess who’s doing skin lightning? guess who are the leaders of colorism in media? guess who’s doing blackface, or using derogatory slurs on the daily? guess whose artists are benefitting financially from the abhorrent cultural appropriation? guess whose relatives are going out of their way to buy the lightest shade doll for their kids!
asian racism towards black people is almost worse than white peoples’ racism, and that’s just the fucking truth
Tharini is 100% correct, but I don’t want any white people getting it twisted.
Please repeat after me, anybody can be racist but not everybody is systematically oppressed.
Victims of systematic oppression are victims of racism, but not all victims of racism are victims of systematic oppression.
When white people say this in trying to undermine the struggles mainly bipoc go through, they’re try and say that “aNyBoDy cAn bE rAciSt”
Y’all can’t use this as an excuse to look at “the mean poc” with a “gotcha” moment.
Tharini is right, but don’t confuse the act of being racist with the result of being systematically oppressed.
Don’t twist her words to invalidate the words of POC, make sure you understand the fine line between racism and systematic oppression.
“… when a nonblack woman of color writes about black women in a way that conflates them with other minorities, particularly under the umbrella of ‘brown,’ this label seems diluting. Anti-blackness is pervasive, even among minorities who are also burdened by historical and present-day oppression. It’s true that nonblack women of color cannot inflict violence upon black women to the degree that white women can, and have. Women of color do not have that kind of systematic power, and they also suffer in our dominant white partiarchal society. But just because their power isn’t systematic does not mean that it does not stigmatize black women and their experiences… The influences of race and gender affect all women of color, but these influences function in multitudinous ways. There are times to speak about solidarity between women of color, and times to eliminate the majority of women of color in order to address the issues of one group in particular, that being black girls and women.”
