Indrukwekkende avond bij de vertoning van 'Wit is ook een kleur'. Juist in het weekend van 21 maart, waarin landelijk tegen racisme en fascisme wordt gedemonstreerd, voelt het extra belangrijk om hierbij stil te staan.
De documentaire komt uit 2016, maar 10 jaar later is die nog steeds pijnlijk actueel.
Dit zijn precies de momenten waarop verandering begint. Door te luisteren, te reflecteren en met elkaar in gesprek te gaan.
#TegenRacisme #Bewustwording #Privilege #Discriminatie #alkmaar
Privilege really messes with data.
Privileged people, like conformist* white men for example, will not know what the heck they are talking about and still have all the confidence in the world and speak with authority - and be listened to and taken seriously!
Marginalised people who DO know what they know, on the other hand, are neither asked nor even often tolerated to speak about it. When we do, we often downplay our expertise and certainty and are not believed, are doubted, belittled or have our ideas and concepts stolen. Or attacked. Or both, somehow.
*I added "conformist" here at the suggestion of a friend bc being a man, or white, isn't in itself the problem. It's when they lean into and abuse their unearned privileges that's the problem
Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years
"Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the unelected House of Lords."
"On Tuesday night members of the upper chamber dropped objections to legislation passed by the House of Commons ousting dozens of dukes, earls and viscounts who inherited seats in Parliament along with their aristocratic titles."
https://apnews.com/article/uk-house-of-lords-hereditary-peers-expelled-535df8781dd01e8970acda1dca99d3d4
#aristocracy #nobility #privilege #democracy #legitimacy #parliament #British #monarchy
Britain is ending the centuries-old tradition of hereditary aristocrats sitting in Parliamentβs House of Lords. Late Tuesday the Lords dropped objections to a bill passed by the House of Commons that removes dozens of dukes, earls, and others who inherited seats in the unelected upper chamber. The chamber currently has more than 800 members. The vast majority are now βlife peersβ appointed by the government, but roughly 1 in 10 members are currently hereditary peers. A previous Labour government removed most hereditary peers in 1999 but left 92 in place. The rest will leave at the end of the current session of Parliament in the spring.
"When the only thing stopping you from completely dehumanising someone is your own judgement regarding their privilege level relative to yours, you are not a safe person to be around."
Relevant: The foaming-at-the-mouth MAGA mirrorshadesdudes and the reasonable, kind, limitless-love MAGA housewives truly believe they are "punching up" when they vote for candidates who promise to hurt marginalized people.
We can stop bad policies and oppose bad behavior without demonizing or dehumanizing the people associated with that behavior.
(I'm reassured that some random person from tumblr said what I've tried to say, but much more concisely and memorably. I also realize that I'm hypocritically struggling with this myself--I believe it in my mind even though in my heart I want to punch all the nazis.)
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sluglover666: Hot take, but even if you ARE punching up (instead of punching sideways at a group that is in the same boat as you), there's a limit to what you can say without sounding like a violent facist but woke this time.
Making fun of a group of people that are privileged over you is one thing, but wishing non-cartoonish violence and death on them ("they should fall off a cliff" vs. "they should be wiped out"), wishing sexual violence on them, dehumanising them, claiming that they're less capable of creating art or living meaningful lives, saying that their relationships are inherently shallow and fake - these things are fucked up. I understand venting and saying extreme things when in pain, but when you find yourself regularly posting about wanting certain people tortured and killed, you need to examine that.
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When the only thing stopping you from completely dehumanising someone is your own judgement regarding their privilege level relative to yours, you are not a safe person to be around.
darkladynyara quoting royalhenoil: For real, this "anything goes so long as it's punching up" was a driving force in the Rwandan Genocide. The people who perpetrated the genocide believed they were punching up.
emfrots: "convince your followers that their Oppressor Class (whether real or imagined) is less deserving of human rights" is the oldest and most reliable trick in the book to incite mass violence, and you're not immune to it because you're a Good Person with Correct Opinions
In computer-science terms this might be called paring the search tree. Dash and Singal and other persons with relatively high social status feel that they have very busy lives and that their time is extremely valuable (after all, they're special and thus their time matters more, and they feel worse about "wasting" that time) and thus they wish to spend the absolute least amount of time possible on the worries of the people beneath them on the social ladder. In a hundred different ways they are inclined to think that such people have earned whatever problems they have, and thus that their lowly social status is effectively a judgment upon them, something deserved. The more conservative they are, the more likely it is they'll say it outright: people WANT to be poor and marginalized, or they're too lazy and demanding to achieve anything better for themselves. High social status is always thought to be earned and the result of hard work.
The exponential scale of privilege is especially admirable in simplifying the lives of the very rich. To be rich and powerful, to inhabit the upper strata of U.S. and "Western" society, is to have immense power over shaping one's personal environment and passage of time. Poor and lowly persons must run around according to the timetables of others; persons somewhat higher up can at least buy themselves occasional oases of leisure; but the true movers and shakers of the world can leave almost ALL their cares in the hands of someone else, and spend their entire lives as if taking one long languid vacation. Such persons travel wherever they like, whenever they like. They don't honor appointments; indeed it's considered a "power move" for a sufficiently rich person to blow off an appointment. They're not held to oaths or promises. To an astonishing degree they're permitted to do that which is regarded as the most disgusting and vile of crimes among the lower classes: rich people get to beg for money.
But one of the most useful perks that great social status and privilege confers upon a person such as Yglesias or Stancil or Anil Dash is a certain leeway in committing small crimes, the sort of crimes that "everyone" commits (such as being deceitful and abusive on the Internet) but which are tolerated so long as they're being committed by someone sufficiently important.
The scope of permissible crime grows wider as status increases, to the point that VERY powerful and important persons in the United States and "The West" are de facto allowed to commit sexual assaults and even child molestation without much expectation that they'll ever be brought to justice. There may be even be, in Christian circles (e.g. within the leadership of Christian churches and priesthoods) the quiet conviction that the really powerful and important people must have their depraved appetites appeased, forgiven ahead of time because these persons are supposedly mighty warriors for the Christian faith.
Now that's an extreme case of the lenity that's accorded to people of high status. The scale of social privilege is an exponential one: there's a very thin slice of the population that gets the really lax treatment, who are (quite probably) able to get away with literal murder, and then the benefits dwindle away quickly once you descend from the loftiest heights of the exponential slope. But even relatively unimportant persons with soft privileged careers, such as opinion columnists or #technology entrepreneurs, enjoy far more impunity and freedom from worries about getting done for small offences than the ordinary human being on Earth. It's the poor and marginalized peoples of the world who get stuck with the label "criminal", as if it were a state of being, an "ontological evil".
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