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rawliverandgoronspice · 8 months ago

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not sure it's my post to make particularly, but I do fucking hate how the concept of white guilt gets weaponized within white people ingroups to throw at each other in order to goad each other into emotional passivity, detachement and inaction, it's just so extremely not what the concept is about initially and is actually still an extension of white guilt it turns out!!! as it's still reacting to that idea and concerned by trying to sever oneself from its perceived effects, regardless of what those are and what they do and what bigger picture they exist in!!!! anyway.

#thoughts #personal #bad weird takes #I have seen SO many posts weaponizing white guilt as a thing you should be ashamed of recently #and therefore (generally) you should stop openly caring about palestine and in-community discordant voices from minorities!!#funny how that always goes #the appeal to reason very often opposed to “white guilt” in these messages is also... very revealing imo #like ok are we still on the Emotions VS Reason dychotomy as if the two cannot coexist and inform each other #as if this very dychotomy isn't based on pretty eurocentric imperialist ideas (with sexism sprinkled ontop)#and also the notion that you're stupid and childish if you feel guilty about the state of the world and your complicity in it #is fucking weird???#it's not bad to interrogate how we can offset the systems of oppression we benefit from!!! what is going on!!!#it's bad to use white guilt to center one's feelings over marginalized communities and how to be actually helpful sure!!!#and it's bad (unhelpful) to let guilt freeze us into inaction!! of course!!#but this is very much not what this is about whenever mentioned in these examples?#here it's the very concept that you “feel bad because of privilege” that is bad. it's just bad inherently apparently.#there seems to be weirdass mental gymnastics happening that seem to imply that it's actually based and epic to not feel white guilt #as if??? I don't know it would dissociate you from the causes??? ???? who knows #and so somehow!!! being a “more conscienscious” ally is to ignore marginalized communities' clear calls to action apparently!!#as you wouldn't want to burden them with your your embarassing urge to be helpful :/#REAL victims are being burdened by your behavior see. :/ no you can't talk to them nor see them they're conveniently always offscreen #being taken care of by actual Good Systems that we must trust instead of interfering or getting involved in any way :/#I swear there will be so very much to unpack about those last six months on the internet #I do find it grimly funny that all of these posts calling out its readership on “you let yourself be manipulated because of white guilt boo #are the ones. doing that. the most explicitly. but in reverse. using the concept of white guilt to shame people back into comformity.

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