Yeah, fuck this author. This isn’t the first time he’s been carrying a whole bucket-full of salt about white people getting woke or light skinned people seemingly in general.

Weight loss drugs available by prescription in the U.S. are also related to amphetamine. Yes, amphetamine can make people stupid, but obviously those people are even less functional after Duterte has them shot.

Ugh... your post boils down to WHY IS SHE ONLY DOING SOCIAL MEDIA ON HER PERSONAL SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE?! You have no idea what else she does that might be a positive influence on society, plus if she does nothing else, AT LEAST she did this minor and ‘self-aggrandizing’ thing (nm that her top post now is trying to…

I don’t she’s being shocked racism is still a thing, I think she’s being outraged and explaining to the most ignorant white folks why they should be outraged too. We really tend to need a lot of explaining there :/

Calling out is one thing. Insulting and belittling is another.

ITA. I’ve been involved in civil rights work long enough to know that there is a small, but extremely vocal contingent of wanna be leaders who react extremely negatively to anyone (especially female of any race) who is put in the spotlight in social justice arenas.

I am black and agree with you on this , the authors is salty against the wrong person IMO the white people who find it fascinating when one of thier own says the same thing that black people have been saying for decades but in part largely that is how white people are . She wasn’t asking for a cookie white people…

You may not like your allies, but publicly shaming and humiliating them for supporting you is widely seen as a dick move.

So no suck thing as baby steps eh?

White girl a little woke.

I started reading your comment and thought about posting a reluctant “i agree, but we need help from well meaning white folks, even if they are self important assed people, and only half GAF about our issues”then I got to the “grow thicker skin...” bit. Halladamnedluyah... Anybody who will stop being an ally cause…

Yeah I am with you here. This was just a social media post, I dont think that she thought she was trying to change the world. Maybe it was a tad clumsy? She is a college student though (i.e., young), and she isnt really wrong.

I agree with you largely, where I diverge with you and the OP is that I never saw her asking black people for a cookie. She was a white person, talking to white people, about the life-endangering truth of white supremacy. I don’t think we were the audience. What’s the difference between this and what Tim Wise does?

They are, you mad when no one says anything then you are pissed when they do. Not everyone will get the tome right but the message was spot on.

It’s not her fault that various news outlets are positioning it as the “most important piece about white privilege you’ll read today” (unless she has some social media magic going on that I’m not aware of), but it’s also not great. If the guy with the glue gun had posted this photo with roughly the same message, it…

Yeah, I didn’t get the sense that she was bragging about it. And you know what? Sadly A LOT of white people still don’t get what white privilege means. I find concrete examples like this one a great way to tell people that no, it does not mean that all white people are rich.

Serious question, what are wypipo supposed to do in a situation like this? Not say anything publicly? I feel like our reaction to this comes off as hating. She’s critical of white supremacy, she points out a contradiction and I’d never heard of this story until you reported it, now I want to know how Colgate is going…

*raises hand at title*

More like Ed GOrgeron, amirite?

I haven’t had a Monster since college (a decade ago) but I vividly remember drinking like 2 or 3 of those 16-oz cans daily while working at a restaurant. I had an 8 oz sugar free Red Bull the other day and I could feel my heartbeat in my eardrums.