#but hey I guess I'm right-wing bigot now yet again bc per usual white people can't be held accountable for literally fucking anything!! | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

theladygazingatemptiness · 1 year ago

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like I've seen so many posts made by people of color (most of them not even religious!) that rightfully criticize and call out white atheism as a movement and the racism (against Natives and Muslims specifically) that's fucking rampant within it but because they had the audacity to imply that a white person being an atheist doesn't make them objectively incapable of racism and that white atheists do in fact have white privilege over religious Natives and Muslims everyone just calls the posts reactionary (ignoring the fact that a fuckton of white atheists are reactionaries and very anti-leftist themselves (TAA, anyone?)) and take the post as Some Religious Zealot Attacking Atheism rather than a nonwhite person criticizing a very real subset of racism disguised as legit criticism of religion.

these types of criticisms aren't about atheism vs religion, they're about whiteness and people using atheism to weaponize their whiteness against poc in the same way that white Christians use their Christianity to weaponize their whiteness against poc. it's about the fact that some forms of anti-theism can in fact be the result of racism sometimes. it's about the fact that you cannot say that you support Natives and then put the Native religions that were forcefully eradicated by colonialism on the same level as the White Western Christianity that replaced it. it's about the link between white atheist culture and the fundamentally racist Eurocentric standard of "intelligence". and if y'all feel this threatened by poc discussing these things and calling out your white atheist faves for their racism then y'all can go have a pleasant chat with and bond with racist right-wing Reddit bros about those barbaric Natives and violent Muslims while bragging about how Not-Reactionary you are I guess

idk where this recent trend of people implying if not outright stating that there are no valid criticisms of atheism as a community/culture/movement (esp white libertarian-brand atheism) and that everyone who's ever criticized somebody's atheism in any way no matter way is a reactionary by default but I can't say I'm fond of that tbh

#wak #spice tag #racism /#religion /#alright I'm done. now you are free to purposely misinterpret this post and ask me why I want to piss on the poor!#bc nuanced discussions about religion and atheism aren't a thing on here apparently!#but like #there was one post in particular that was like #'white men are often anti-theist bc they dont like the idea of being below anyone and poc or lgbt people are often anti-theist bc of trauma #and everyone was calling that a 'reactionary take'#meanwhile I as a black agnostic woman was like..#ok but. OP is. literally right though lmao???? like obviously this isn't Always the case but #like. have y'all ever noticed that the majority of white atheist personalities online are incredibly right-wing and anti-sj #and atheism as a movement is almost entirely dominated by reactionary white men who think white privilege isn't real #meanwhile almost every marginalized anti theist I've ever seen has suffered from homophobia and racism and etc as a child #said marginalized anti theists often actually talk about the evils of religion as an industry and the trauma they faced #while white atheist men just talk about how smart they are and little else #plus apparently 'not all religions are white Christianity' is reactionary now too and #I really. don't understand why???#no Christianity isn't the only religion with issues and people are allowed to criticize issues in all religions #but white Christians have an Insane level of privilege over religious Natives and Muslims #and they do in fact oppress both of these groups #Natives were literally punished and murdered if they practiced their own religion instead of Western Christianity #and Muslims are systemically abused and killed by the American Christian Institution #and guess what!!#white atheists are very much privileged over both of these groups!!#theists of color do not socially oppress white atheists!!!#even the most zealous of Christians will support a white atheist before they support a religious Native or a Muslim!!#and lumping religious Natives and Muslims in with their literal oppressors (aka Western Christians) is uuuuuhhh pretty fucking racist!!#but hey I guess I'm right-wing bigot now yet again bc per usual white people can't be held accountable for literally fucking anything!!

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