the ongoing anti- racism, anti- oppression thread

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Split98

This is a really gross world we live in.

Since you got up this morning, dozens of people have been murdered.

It's a really big world we live in.

This is also the safest, most tolerant, most peaceful the world has ever been. But in a world of 7 billion - or 360 million if you're looking at the English-speaking parts of the world that upload videos to Youtube or Facebook - even behaviour only engaged in by 1 per cent of people happens often enough that it can overwhelm your social media feed if that's what you're looking for. And if we were to reduce these bad things by 90 per cent - reduce murder, racism, sexism - it will still happen often enough in a population of 360 million people that you will see dozens of instances of it a day on social media if that's what you're looking for.

[activeStick]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Hey it happened again. What a shocker.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1012588488049483776

The story also references a few other stories of white people losing their minds on a few people. In one instance, calling the cops on people for using charcoal in their bbq and another, on an 8 year old girl for selling bottled water without a permit. Lmao, such a sad state of affairs in the world today.

[driveway]

Former Principal of Etobicoke School of the Arts created and circulated a "Black List" of students among teachers.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...list-1.4724307

Aitchison outraged parents and students by compiling a list of black students and circulating it to teachers in November of 2017. In February, a teacher at the school took a picture of the list and sent it to students, sparking serious questions.
...
Students and parents who have seen the list — which many now call the "black list" — say Aitchison used the school's yearbook to identify black students.

Aitchison's list also allegedly used ethnic signifiers like as "African" and "Caribbean" to describe students, also separating both "black" and "mixed race" students on the lists as well.
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At the meeting, called in response to mounting pressure from students, he says both the school and the TDSB made unsatisfactory attempts at reconciling the issue. For example, Aitchison commenced her apology by stating she had "black friends," he said.

Aitchison has not been fired, she has transferred schools.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by driveway

Former Principal of Etobicoke School of the Arts created and circulated a "Black List" of students among teachers.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...list-1.4724307



Aitchison has not been fired, she has transferred schools.

Unions are great.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Unions are great.

Does anyone else feel like pointing out the obvious to EE?

[driveway]

Nah, let's see if he stumbles onto it himself.

[PsYcNeT]

A new twist on an old classic!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ers/758002002/

Janelle Bynum, a state representative from Oregon who is black, said she was going door-to-door to talk with constituents when one of those constituents called the police on her, thinking her actions were "suspicious."

Bynum is running for reelection in November, and posted about the experience to Facebook on Tuesday.

"Big shout out to Officer Campbell who responded professionally to someone who said that I was going door to door and spending a lot of time typing on my cell phone after each house—- aka canvassing and keeping account of what my community cares about!" she wrote.

The incident happened around 5:10 p.m. Tuesday after Bynum had visited nearly 30 homes in Clackamas, Ore., OregonLive reports.

[icecube]

Identity-Based Politics are Not the Problem, Identity-Based Oppression Is

How Conservatives and Liberals Confuse a Symptom for the Disease

https://medium.com/@timjwise/identit...s-3775a5cdfe1d

it is only because those identities have been given particular meaning by systems of inequality — in short, because of oppression on the basis of those things — that individuals now seek to organize around said identities.

Which is to say that if one doesn’t like identity politics, there is a rather obvious way to stop them: put an end to the subordination of people on the basis of identity.

[PsYcNeT]

Hey remember the kid that got the cops called on him for mowing lawns in a predominantly black neighbourhood?

Well now apparently he's so vicious the cops got called for...uh...using a slip n' slide...

https://twitter.com/user/status/1016106079158235141

[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Hey remember the kid that got the cops called on him for mowing lawns in a predominantly black neighbourhood?

Well now apparently he's so vicious the cops got called for...uh...using a slip n' slide...

https://twitter.com/user/status/1016106079158235141

lol the fake outrage is hilar, poor kid but he just lives next door to some morons. No one has ever had that one annoying neighbour before?

People call the police because of cold burgers

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...lton-1.4732100

[Oling_Roachinen]

Is that racist?

It's a predominantly black neighbourhood. They called because some kid slammed into their fence and broke it. What does race have to do with a kid slamming into their fence? Of note, these neighbours called the police for issues relating to parking on the street without getting tickets, they are 911-trigger happy. There's no reason to believe race played an issue here.

Of course you don't want some dillweed neighbour calling the cops for every minor thing, but nosy irrational neighbour ≠ racist.

[PsYcNeT]

Black people: basically cold burgers.

[Oling_Roachinen]

Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

lol the fake outrage is hilar, poor kid but he just lives next door to some morons. No one has ever had that one annoying neighbour before?

People call the police because of cold burgers

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamil...lton-1.4732100

What race was the person who made the burgers?

[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Black people: basically cold burgers.

It all makes sense now.

[Oling_Roachinen]

The more I think about this one, the more stupid it becomes to me. Angry at the media manipulation and the way people like PsYcNeT eat it up to get their jollies off. There's actually major issues with race plaguing the States and the world. We don't need to make up more. A kid broke a fence, the neighbours (who already have an extremely poor relationship - probably in part because one is inconsiderate and the other is police happy) called the non-emergency police line. Hardly racist. And all it does it divide people even more as now you guys like PsYcNeT who will try to disparage anyone who isn't willing to call out the neighbours as KKK members. If you don't think there's neighbours out there that would call the police on a white kid who broke their fence, you're lying to yourself.

Even the tweet designed to cause outrage
"You're a 12 year old. And your neighbors have called the police on you twice in recent weeks for for 1) mowing the lawn 2) playing on a Slip-N-Slide."

No the police were not called because they were playing on a Slip-N-Slide, they were called because they broke the fence. It's in the police report.

Again, neighbours are probably hard to get along dillweeds. But no reason to call them racist. Except of course people love being faux-angry and self-righteous today. And just being a lousy neighbour isn't a good enough reason - no, let's portray them racist so we can get that justice boner hard on when we ruin their lives.

[PsYcNeT]

Hmm maybe, just maybe, the lesson is probably to stop being a giant ####bag to people?

https://twitter.com/user/status/1016388531646795777

[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Hmm maybe, just maybe, the lesson is probably to stop being a giant ####bag to people?

https://twitter.com/user/status/1016388531646795777

Absolutely, I am CONFIDENT that you also include people who refuse service to others for no legit reason.

Some need to stop being ####bags and a whole lot need to start thinking.

[EldrickOnIce]

Community pools are cesspools to begin with, but I'm pretty sure no one should be wearing socks in it.

[2Stonedbirds]

Wonder where breaking the neighbors fence falls under the lexicon of ######bag.

But muh social media feed!

[JohnnyB]

Calling the fashion police?

This thread makes me feel some sympathy for the police in that they clearly deal with more ridiculous and stupid calls from whackjobs than I had imagined.