Let’s put a death to this, shall we?
Trying to turn around a situation so that it is about race instead of sex. (Or what have you.)
“If somebody said such-and-such about a black person…”
Cut it the fuck out. You are playing on the narrative that racism is dead in our society, which is a back-breaking load of rancid shit.
I understand the desire to try to communicate to people who might not otherwise understand how serious something is. But please find a way to do it without making things worse for our brothers and sisters living every fucking day as a gay person, trans person, person of color, person with a disability…
These systems of oppression are incomprehensibly large and they operate in different ways for different classes of persons. They are equally reprehensible, but that does not mean they all operate the same way, and that if something problematic about [x class] is not tolerated in society, [x class] must not have it so bad after all.
Check your privilege.
Fiendish
| Saturday, May 2, 2009 | 12:41 pmI don’t agree with this post.
I don’t see how, by comparing ongoing civil rights struggles, we’re setting any of them back at all. By pointing out ways in which racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia/etc has become less socially acceptable in comparison to another is surely only an attempt to highlight the equality of every cause? We don’t assume racism is dead by saying “you wouldn’t talk that way about a black person”; we don’t assume sexism has vanished by saying “you wouldn’t get away with treating a woman like that”. We’re pointing out that there is intersectionality in every cause and the true struggle is to reach total equality. I don’t see how making people question their attitudes toward disabled people, in comparison to their attitudes toward another minority group is harmful. I don’t believe that it is.
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