DagSeoul: Positions, Populations, Punk, Poetics

Hey Tumblr, whether or not Zimmerman is white,

mermaid-vision:

dagseoul:

mermaid-vision:

dagseoul:

dagseoul:

a kid was lynched by a guy who benefits from white supremacy and the hatred of black people. And that’s a fucking problem.

Still relevant.

On the California census there is no option for ‘Hispanic’ and therefore, they are often grouped into ‘whites’. I feel like that has relevancy here.

It matters not regarding the fact that Trayvon Martin’s life was not valuable in a white supremacist society. The US is white supremacist and a society that has never come to terms with its hatred of black people. That’s the relevant issue in this case.

I don’t give a shit about whether Zimmerman is white or not, or couldn’t mark on a census form that he identifies as “Hispanic”.

Yeah, I agree with you. It was more of a half thought-comment than anything. I think that maybe it sheds light on just how white supremacist our nation is that he couldn’t even be included in a statistic that has an impact on our societal systems. Or maybe there is something to be said for the power he has in being able to identify as such. I’m looking at the systemic importance of the detail and how it relates to the case. Sorry if it came off as a defense or anything ridiculous- not at all my intention. Thanks for the input though, that’s exactly what I was looking for. =]

Why are you interested in making this about Zimmerman? It IS ridiculous. 

Read this article. Zimmerman is a white supremacist. He doesn’t have to be white to be a white supremacist, to be a bigot, to be a racist, to be one who benefits from the existence of white supremacy. This is not about Zimmerman. This is about a society that consistently and persistently devalues black people. This is about how we all, whether we choose to or not, benefit from that devaluation. 

This is a man who fully supported the white power structure. He not only wanted to benefit from it, he wanted to profit from it.

From the article:

George Zimmerman, 28, an aspiring police officer who once attended a citizen police academy, called the Sanford Police Department on Feb. 26 to report a suspicious person in his gated townhouse complex. It was one of the dozens of times he had called police over the years, and one of several where he called to report the presence of a black male.

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dagNotes: The Old White Stand By…Blame It On The Blacks.

Thinking about Rick Santorum’s racist dog whistle to the Iowa Republican voters. He claims he doesn’t want to use other people’s money to enrich black people. Overtly racist language, of course. I’d not expect anything less from the Catholic conservative. I’m surprised and dismayed to have heard from more than one white friend that there’s an excuse for Rick Santorum’s statement, or that it’s politics as usual. I’m learning that many of my liberal white friends are not willing to betray their whiteness. Something about calling out white supremacy in everyday life seems inappropriate to many of them. It’s ok to attack nationalists and fascists, but everyday white folks and “respected” leaders is not nice. I hate that racist civility.

That white people continue to color wealth-distribution is a problem insisting that black America is so corrupted that they cost “us” too much. An argument implying black people are a financial drain on US wealth (thus potential for equality, i.e. white people like to say, “it’s their fault,”) is crazy considering how many black men we purposefully and willfully incarcerate each year, at great cost, and our inhumane sentencing policies that are unjustly applied in states nationwide. That sort of grand expense is cool, but the small amount of revenue spent on useful and successful, necessary welfare-programs is supposed to be unfair.

That’s white supremacy. It’s not veiled, it’s public policy, it’s explicit and obscene.

thegayrepublican:

This is the most stupid thing i have ever seen.

NO NO NO Gay Republican NO.

The GOP is using women, images of women, women’s health, reproductive health, and other nasty feminist things as tools to cause a stir amongst its vocal minority the socially conservative far-right wing motivating them to picket, protest, hand out images of aborted fetuses, and scream and yell about the immoral left and feminism gone awry. This pisses off the activist left. Much social debate occurs, the media picks the story up and runs with it.

Meanwhile the GOP writes bills, riders, amendments, and lengthy, complex legislative proposals meant to cut the heart out of social welfare programs to cover its tax and regulatory reform for the wealthiest Americans and their corporations.

You’re correct: it isn’t a war on women. It’s a war against the hardest working, most oppressed, most needy, youngest, oldest, and most deserving Americans using the images of women on behalf of the wealthiest, least needy Americans. It’s a war on most of us, not women, making it a hateful and sexist culture war because it focuses on one aspect of women’s rights when so much more is at stake. You’d have to be a crazy anti-woman zealot to believe the GOP is really out to get women; I mean, really want the GOP to defund something awesome like Planned Parenthood that helps so many for so little and to believe that is something good for the GOP to do, among other social reforms it’s pushing.  But, you know, the GOP doesn’t give a shit about women’s rights, women’s health, women’s issues, and how these issues affect all of us.

In other words, the GOP uses women and specific health issues in a horrible and misleading fashion. Just like the Republican Party uses homosexuals. And I’m not just talking on holidays and airport restrooms, honk honk.