When people with privilege hear that they have privilege, what they hear is not, “Our society is structured so that your life is more valued than others.” They hear, “Everything, no matter what, will be handed to you. You have done nothing to achieve what you have.” That’s not strictly true, and hardly anyone who points out another’s privilege is making that accusation. There are privileged people who work very hard. The privilege they experience is the absence of barriers that exist for other people.
Tag: racism
CAN WE JUST TALK ABOUT HOW ON POINT EVERYONE IS HANDLING THIS CASE.
THIS. THIS IS WHAT IT SHOULD BE LIKE ALWAYS
I have such conflicting emotions like I am impressed to the verge of tears and yet that saddens me because this should be the damn default like wtf
please do not participate in that whiteout garbage tomorrow
please do not participate in that whiteout garbage tomorrow
please do not participate in that whiteout garbage tomorrow
please do not do it
if I see ANYONE participating in white out your ass will be unfollowed and blocked so fast.
(I ain’t saying white ppl cant post selfies tomorrow, just don’t do it in support of #whiteout)
Spreading the word. When I first heard about the whiteout nonsense, I thought it was a joke. But no, I was disappointed. Now I am disappointed for other reasons.
Alright so if you don’t find pride and arrogance a flaw or disagree that certain characters are greedy you are disagreeing with the backbone of the morality in the Silmarillion. Sorry but this is one fandom where morality is so entrenched that to disagree with Tolkien is to miss the point of the story itself.
Oh no! I’ve written over 300,000 words about the Silmarillion and it turns out all of my interpretations are totally worthless, because there’s only one correct reading and anon knows what it is! Gosh, what a waste of two years of my life.
”to disagree with Tolkien is to miss the point of the story itself” — I have some questions. Is it missing the point of the story to disagree with Tolkien about anything? Like, can I disagree that women are the intellectual inferiors of men and still understand the point of the story? Can I disagree that it’s okay to refer to orcs as ‘degraded and repulsive… Mongol-types’ and still understand the point of the story? Can I ship characters and still understand the point of the story, or is believing gay people are a natural part of the world totally incompatible with True Understanding of Tolkien?
But it gets worse! What if I think the Valar were wrong to bring the Elves to Aman? Then I’m certainly missing the point of the story, right? Except Tolkien himself thought that at one point. In some places he writes that the Noldor were right to leave; in other places he writes that they were wrong. In some places he writes that Galadriel was blameless in departing; in some he writes that she rightly fell under the Doom. In the Book of Lost Tales Manwë forbids the Noldor from leaving or talking about their desire to leave; in other works Tolkien tells us that the Valar definitely wouldn’t do that. It’s starting to look like Tolkien doesn’t understand the point of his own story, poor sod.
Aw Yiss 