[ SECRET POST #7035 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7035 ⌋

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[fscom]

04. [WARNING for discussion of ableism, racism]
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[fscom]

I used to follow and respect a woman who went by the handle UppityNegress on social media. She is bold, and unapologetic and well researched and feminist, so I dug her. But I had to unfollow her after the ableist vitriol she expoused in reaction to the BAFTA n-word debacle. She wasn't furious at the producers and organizers of the events - she was at a man who couldn't help it, even calling for violence against him. Yeah...I'm out (and disappointed).

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know the social media personality you're referring to, but I do wonder what's going on with people like that. Do they not understand what Tourette's is, or what?

[(Anonymous)]

Probably they think is just ticks and funny words, until you mention the Coprolalia.

[(Anonymous)]

See, I don't pretend to be any kind of expert on Tourette's, but I always thought that was one of the best known symptoms.

[iff_and_xor]

This incident revealed to me that an unfortunate number of people believe that Tourette’s verbal tics reveal something true about what the person really thinks or feels. Like getting drunk and having your inhibitions lowered and saying something that you’d usually keep yourself from voicing aloud.

I saw a fair amount of “well, why did he even have that word in mind if he’s not a racist?”

[sparklywalls]

Lots of people seemed to think it's the, "reveal what you secretly think" disease and not the, "say the worst thing you could possibly say basically against your will" disease and this incident brought out that to a depressing degree.

Personally, I felt like a lot of folk missed that the BBC deserved a lot more shit for how they all but deliberately set this up to happen. They failed Michael, Delroy and Jonathan.

[(Anonymous)]

The incident just proved to me that when a lot of people say we need to talk about intersectionality more what they actually mean is 'we need to center my specific form of oppression' because they're not actually interested in having to consider intersectionality for any other groups. I don't like using the term 'Oppression Olympics' but hoo boy were a lot of people trying to argue that because their -ism is more deserving of the gold medal they don't have to consider the other equally oppressed side.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Ten seconds after the word "intersectionality" entered the mainstream, it became "If you're white, your marginalized status doesn't really affect you enough to count." White marginalized people leaned into it too, constantly apologizing for talking about the difficulties they face, they're white after all so they'll never really know true oppression and they are so so sorry for being selfish enough to even talk about themselves at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Pointing out one's checklist is shorter than that of someone who falls into more than one marginalized group isn't the same as saying as your marginalized status doesn't count. It's just saying you have some degree of privilege over your less privileged counterparts and should be aware of it.

I can't speak on those white people apologizing for being white. It sounds like something they need to unpack in a support group or possibly therapy.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh I'm first and foremost still mad at the BBC for this, but got real disappointed when I was seeing people comment along the lines of needing to put a muzzle on someone with tics. Yeah you can be upset at hearing an upsetting slur, no that isn't a solution omg what is wrong with you??

[(Anonymous)]

This. The problem is the BBC. I'm pretty convinced they wanted this whole thing to happen, and people are just taking the bait.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, the BBC was absolutely thrilled with the attention. It was disgusting on two fronts.

[(Anonymous)]

The description of herself as uppity didn't clue you in that there could be problems with her?

[(Anonymous)]

Dude. No. Find something else to critique.