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Nevermore  ·  3924 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Privilege is Clickbait - Checking Privilege-Checking

I agree with everything you said, but really this is only how it should work. In practice all this talk about privilege is only serving to divide people who should be working together. I have legitimately seen trans activists spam a transman's tumblr with hate because he refused to apologise for having a cis roommate. Then there are really popular blogs like Misandry Mermaid who proudly talk about how much they hate men and how cishets don't deserve to call themselves feminists. This is making it harder and harder for social justice movements to gain traction among members of privileged groups, because they're not going to take a movement that produces catchphrases like "die cis scum" seriously. This is especially annoying because tumblr is by far the largest trans presence on the internet, and could be doing a lot more to help their movement.

It's integral to social justice that you remember you have advantages other people don't, but right now privilege-checking culture is in a very bad way.





_refugee_  ·  3923 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I have legitimately seen trans activists spam a transman's tumblr with hate because he refused to apologise for having a cis roommate

Are you referring to yesterday's TumblrInAction post? That was crazy - although I think those trans activists are like, on the super-extreme detached-from-reality end.

Nevermore  ·  3923 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yep. It's annoying as someone who's pretty involved with transgender rights because Tumblr is the one of the loudest trans voices out there, and this is the kind of stuff it produces.

thundara  ·  3924 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fair enough, I think it still has legitimate uses (Though also a lot of overlap with "empathy" and "compassion"), but I've also seen the phrase bastardized.