Stop doing this 👏👏👏

Pride is for us, not for cishet consumption 👏

If seeing people being themselves makes them homophobic then they were ALWAYS homophobic 👏

You can’t uplift the nice palatable ‘normal’ members of the community and leave the rest behind 👏

If they’ll only treat you well when you conform then they don’t actually respect you 👏

Stop blaming queer people for our own oppression 👏

Stop telling us we’re too loud or too queer or too sexual or we talk about it too much, just let us be ourselves 👏

Stop acting like it’s okay for people to judge ALL of us by the actions of one person as if that isn’t their own bigotry coming out 👏

Homophobes don’t need an excuse 👏

And they will turn on you nice respectable gays the second you step a single toe out of line so STOP enabling them 👏

"MLK would never march on a highway/freeway/street." 🤔  -KasimReed

That time Kasim Reed tried to whitewash history & play a round of respectability politics and then publicly got his ass handed to him. #BlackLivesMatter

Okay, here’s the problem with the idea that oppressed groups can “alienate allies” by not being nice enough:

You shouldn’t be an ally because oppressed groups are nice to you. You should be an ally because you believe they deserve basic human rights. Hearing “I hate men” shouldn’t make men stop being feminist. Hearing “fuck white people” shouldn’t make white people stop opposing racism.

Your opposition to oppression should be moral, and immovable. Your belief that all humans should be treated with equal respect shouldn’t be conditional based on whether or not individual people are nice to you.

“A person from [oppressed group] offended me, and now I’ve decided that all [group] doesn’t deserve basic human rights” is bullshit. If it was true, they’d virurently hate everyone, including the privileged group. What they really think is “I was already a bigot against [group], and I’ll use any excuse to blame them; so that they either obey me, or I get an excuse to make them obey me”. Classic abusive tactic.

Not to mention that, if one group has to mantain unfairly high standards (never get angry at any inequality, never confront, never protest in the ‘wrong’ way - and it just so happens that every single form of protest is always wrong or done at the wrong time - never make it about race/gender/abc, never accuse anyone of being a bigot, etc. etc.) to “earn” being treated with basic human respect, and the other group is NOT required to do the same, then the situation is NOT equal. (Having that bullshit high standard applied to everyone would still be bullshit, because basic human rights should automatically be yours, they aren’t to be “earned”; but you getthe point.)

Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, was recently arrested in a night-time raid on her home. The Israeli authorities accuse her of “assaulting” an Israeli soldier and an officer. A day earlier she had confronted Israeli soldiers who had entered her family’s backyard. The incident happened shortly after a soldier shot her 14-year-old cousin in the head with a rubber bullet, and fired tear-gascanisters directly at their home, breaking windows.

Her mother and cousin were arrested later as well. All three remain in detention.

There has been a curious lack of support for Ahed from Western feminist groups, human rights advocates and state officials who otherwise present themselves as the purveyors of human rights and champions of girls’ empowerment.Ahed, like Malala, has a substantial history of standing up against injustices.

Their campaigns on empowering girls in the global South are innumerable: Girl Up, Girl Rising, G(irls)20 Summit, Because I am a Girl, Let Girls Learn, Girl Declaration.

When 15-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by a member of Tehrik-e-Taliban, the reaction was starkly different. Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, issued a petition entitled “I am Malala.” The UNESCO launched “Stand Up For Malala.”

Malala was invited to meet then President Barack Obama, as well as the then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and addressed the UN General Assembly. She received numerous accolades from being named one of the 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine and Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine to being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013, and again in 2014 when she won.

bc malala’s nonviolent approach and subsequent attack over what seems like just the issue of education for girls could easily be preached by western (white) feminists as a solely feminist issue.

but when girls & even women actively fight against the police state that oppresses them, mainstream media refuses to pick it up bc it is inherently and undeniably political, and many western (white) feminists are pro police.

To clarify, Ahed’s too-active defiance of the soldiers who shot her cousin was simply a slap. She slapped a man with a gun. This is in every practical sense not “violent resistance”, it’s just too much for white women to handle.

They sit at their computers an ocean away, tittering about whether or not resistance to the occupation is antisemetic and refusing to condemn the arrest of a teenage girl for slapping a soldier with a gun who trespassed in her backyard, on her land.

The occupation is ruining the lives of Palestinian women and taking childhoods from Palestinian girls. You cannot be a feminist and refuse to condemn the occupation.

This 👌🏾

Love these types of clap backs.

As someone who’s AA and Ugandan this perfectly describes my feelings on this