rofl @ your prejudice and assumptions. i am certainly no conservative. i mean, if i were then i'd be more likely to DEFEND Keyes, yes?
I said *this* critique -- I never mentioned anything about "...so, most black people are homophobic." The fact is, I'd anticipate that even if a white person didn't SAY as much, this "all black ppl are alike" logic would still be read into her statement because she's white. I bring this up because I find Keyes viscerally repulsive for many of the reasons Renee outlines above, and it angers me that there are fora ostensibly dedicated to social justice where, nonetheless, i'd be discouraged from criticizing him.
I think that antiracists find it very easy to fall into the mode of believing that all white people have it easy, but we know that because we have institutionalized a hierarchy of bodies, that some white people face oppression based in things like gender, disability, class, and sexuality. I fail to see how ignoring this moves us any closer to racial parity? In fact, what it does do is upset potential allies. I am not saying that black people should stop fighting for racial equality, or even suggesting that a white person and a person of color facing the same oppression experience it equally, but standing outside of any particular oppression and unilateral erasing it, because it is happening to a white person rather than a person of color is erasure. If the goal is to achieve an equal society, then we cannot support or ignore any kind of marginalization.
I'm curious: did hueism exist in india, asia, etc. before these cultures came into contact with white people? i honestly don't know the answer to this
Also, dude, if any single form of privilege snagged Beyonce that role, I think it'd be more accurate to call that "celebrity privilege" than "Western privilege." If they couldn't have chosen Beyonce but would have been forced to go either with (a) a random Western woman or (b) a valuable marquee name from another part of the world -- say zhang ziyi or lakshmi menon -- do you have any doubt that the mag would have picked the latter?
who, exactly, are these white feminists defending palin but declining to defend michelle? i literally cannot recall a single self-identified feminist i've encountered over the past several years (either online or IRL) who hasn't exhibited precisely the opposite inclination. jezebel is the most grating group of white feminists i can think of, and they are aggressively pro-michelle, anti-palin.
If a white gay person or white feminist made this critique re: Keyes, would you have a problem w/that?
try that cmt again without gradschool-speak. HOW, exactly, does maher condemning the treatment of women in muslim countries harm muslim women? don't use any tarted-up form of the word "problem," either.
I doubt it escapes Maher that many more-typical "liberals" hate him. I'm not a universal fan of his, but I think he would rather think independently than parrot prevailing dogma which puts him head and shoulders above most talking heads.
If you DON'T feel you have the right to tell Iran it needs to re-examine women's rights, then shame on you.
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