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fuckmemathiaskohler:

shinjipuff:

the biggest thing I have a problem with about social justice bloggers is

we’re not all from the US

we don’t all experience things the same way as you do

and we don’t have the same culture as you do

some places don’t have anything like white privilege but there’s still racism

some places have racism as in whites against whites or blacks against blacks for cultural differences

can you stop assuming everything is like in the US

I mean, yeah, we can try not to generalize worldwide, but telling us to stop talking about specific privileges and oppressions common to our country takes steam out of OUR movement. White privilege is still heavily prevalent in North America, and we have to start with where /we/ live.
If you want the privileges and oppressions specific to YOUR country to come to light, YOU have to talk about them, because WE can’t. All we can know is what goes on here and how to fix it. All we can do is lend you support.

except what you guys do isnt that

instead you shit on absolutely anyone who talks about that, you bash them, using american centered point of view and refusing to accept that things are plainly different somewhere else

a very good example would be the “love is love” campaign from italy. it was absolutely shat upon by you americans because it didn’t feature black people, despite the fact that finding a black person in italy is literally like trying to win a fucking lottery

no one is telling you you can’t talk about those specific things, the problem starts when you force your own american centered view on situations that won’t make sense if you don’t try to look at it from the other side

you need to do exactly as you said, stop generalazing the entire goddamn world, because you know, it furthers the goddamn stereotype that americans think that entire world IS america

that’s why people are pissed off

you never lend any sort of support, you just shit on people for explaining that things are plainly different somewhere else

and then you ironically tell us to start talking about things that happen in our country first

do you see the problem yet