If studying-lgbtq-people inboxes you asking to take part in questions about LGBTQ people “to help her understand” DO NOT DO IT. It is Sophie M Herold, the girl from Germany who attacks LGBTQ people and outs them to others. She is transphobic, homophobic and one of the sickest people I know. And now she’s back with a cunning new plan to get you NAME, ADDRESS, BIRTH DATE, AND PHOTO.
This girl is dangerous, and for some reason is allowed to keep making new tumblr accounts. We’ve raised awareness before and it helped, so lets do it again before she puts another persons life in danger. She collects your information and gives it out to others, she has sent letters to peoples parents outing them, other people have gotten hurt because of her. Yes, hurt.
Even if we can’t stop her again, get this message out and stop others giving her information etc.
And Sophie, you should know by now not to fuck with me again, wrong move, buddy.
billcosby-kun reblogged your post: Diablo III “Hackings”
I’d just mainly…well known so-called vulnerability
That’s pretty much it I think. I guess if they had found a way to make the getting and entering of the code quick an simple (some kind of malware? idk), then all they need to know is if the person is on-line. Perhaps that’s where the public games come into play *shrug*. And aye, it’s much easier to focus on the folks who don’t have one at all :) It turned out in one “hacked with an authenticator” case on the US forums, the person had been compromised only 4 hours before they added the authenticator, they just didn’t realise.
I’ve been pretty interested by the current issue with D3 and people having their accounts compromised, but it’s getting pretty frustrating on the tech support forum now so I need to vent a bit (and I’m not happy at finding out over in EU we pay more than US for these authenticators that are supposed to be sold at cost i.e. Blizzard don’t make a profit).
What usually happens when someone reports an account compromise on the forum is you get a few people saying “yeah this happened to me too”, some helpful folks saying what the OP and others can do to regain control of their account, restore their items and further secure it, and then a bunch of tools going “it’s your fault, get an authenticator.”
And if you had an authenticator active but your account was still compromised?
“You’re lying.”
Massively frustrating because it’s not exactly a secret that security tokens like the Blizzard Authenticator (physical or mobile app) are vulnerable to certain types of attacks, it’s just not as common Battle.net accounts are compromised in this way than by not having one and having their account details know either through some phishing scam or malicious software on their machine (apparently).
racism: power/privilege + prejudice
A Way to Serve: okay hi tumblr prepare to be offended i guess but Racism:…
okay hi tumblr
prepare to be offended i guess but
Racism: Power/privilege + prejudice. To exact racism, one must have social power/privilege based on one’s race, thereby being able to use that social power/privilege to (further) marginalize an individual or a group without that social privilege/power.
- Note 1: Social privilege/power includes but is by no means limited to things such as ubiquitous representation in media, inclusion in the (already broken) “standard(s)” of beauty/attractiveness, holding the majority in any political or economic group/practice/structure, etc.
- Note 2: Currently, especially in the western part of the world, white people hold social privilege/power — poc do not
People who can exact racism, generally, cannot be on the receiving end of it for the simple fact that the fact that they can exact it means that they hold privilege/power that other races do not. Simply put: Reverse racism does not exist. It is not possible to be racist against whites, because there is no form of social power or privilege higher (right now) than the status of being a white person. There can certainly be prejudice, and there is a lot of (mostly justifiable) prejudice and resentment. But for sheer lack of privilege/power (often the root of such prejudice and resentment), white people cannot actually experience racism.
This is the last and only time I’m going to explain that nicely. If you disagree with this, you are wrong, and I’m not going to argue with you. I’m not going to spend spoons trying to reason with you. If you think that white people can experience racism because they are white, hi and bye, I’m not wasting more than this post on you anymore.
Things that also qualify as racism:
- Cultural appropriation
- Racial jokes
- Racial slurs
- Racial stereotypes (and the perpetuation thereof)
But I get it, white people. I get that you want to be able to experience racism. I don’t know why, as it is not at all the LEAST bit fun, but I get that for some reason you do. I get that you want to be able to cry “white is not all one big race!” (while at the same time saying “Latinos” and “Hispanics” because all people who speak Spanish are the same and thereby able to be grouped all together*), I get that you want to be able to say “stop making generalizations about white people!” (while chances are you have at least at some point done this regarding another race). And okay. Fair enough. I’m going to teach you how to make that happen in a legitimate way.
- *Note: I am by no means trying to say that Latino/Hispanic is not a valid identity. If this is how you identify, it is a perfectly good and valid identity — for a variety of reasons, but in actuality there doesn’t even have to be a reason (and even if there is, it’s absolutely nobody’s business, not even mine) other than that is how you choose to identify and it makes you the most comfortable.
White people, you can validly cry about your hurt white feelings when racism as it is today stops. When you stop being the majority, when you stop filling congress wall-to-wall, when Mexicans R So Funny Lol Sombrero memes stop, when entire cultures stop being reduced to jokes, when Get Out If You Don’t Speak English stops being your motto, when geisha and “Mexican” and Native American and kimono halloween “costumes” stop existing, when Oh My God A Head Wrap How Oppressive! stops being your feminist battlecry, when This [Culture]’s Food Is So Gross stops being a valid reason not to go to a restaurant, when racial slurs are eradicated, then you can cry and I guarantee you more POC will listen. Hell, I’ll listen.
Until then? It’s really not your place to tell me or any other POC what is and isn’t racist. Simply put: You can’t really know. You are not equipped with the social standing to inherently understand what it means to be marginalized the way POC are marginalized. Because you have not been and probably never will be marginalized that way. “But the Irish!” you might say, or “but whites in places like Hawaii!”
Yes. There is extreme prejudice against whites. It exists. It can be vile, damaging, violent, absolutely despicable. In certain situations, it is almost like racism against POCs. But the fact of the matter is that if you are in the western part of the world, there is a much smaller chance of you experiencing that — and even if you do, the likelihood that it can really reflect racism against POCs is ridiculously small.Why? Because racism against POCs is history. It is the entire history, more or less, of the United States. It is ingrained in people of the western world so much that it is passed as normality. We live in a world (here in the western world, mostly the USA) where “sombrero” has lost its original meaning, where “burka” is the only kind of female covering from the middle east, where kimonos are considered ~sexy~ because they’re ~so exotic~. And we think that those things, those thoughts, that frame of mind, are okay. And that is real racism. It’s the normalization of acute and dehumanizing prejudice. It’s living, every day, in a status that literally makes you better than somebody else (at least in a lot of people’s eyes, consciously or not) because you are not a POC.
And when you turn around, while all this is still happening, and cry about how white people are getting such flak, do you know what you are doing?
You’re just reinforcing the idea that white people are the most important. That’s all you are doing. You are saying that that moment of discomfort you are feeling for that split second of your life is more important than centuries of oppression, erasure, outright genocide. So take a step back. Think about it for a second.
That moment of discomfort? Take that, if you can imagine it, and make it bigger. Not just a day or a week or even a month or a year of feeling that. Multiply it by at least a hundred and then stretch it into a lifetime. The more years you add, the worse it gets. Remember that racism has actually improved in some areas — and not by a fucking lot, but by a margin. And that’s the life of a POC. If they’re lucky. If they’re alive. If they aren’t covered in scars or shoving their hands into skin-lightening cream (dangerous to their health, but tell that to anyone desperate enough to use it and I’ll show you someone who would rather be white than healthy — and I can’t even blame them in the least).So the next time you want to draw attention to your hurt white feelings, or the next time you want to snap at how not racist something is, or the next time you feel like you need to stand up against racism on whites, remember: This is a moment for you. This is an opinion you have based entirely around the fact that you are actually not a POC.
This is a lifetime, a history, an entire culture for someone else.
You don’t know. You can’t know. You probably can’t even really imagine.
So why don’t you actually shut the fuck up.
Yes, to all of my white friends who wish to disagree with me about racism and how ONLY WHITE PEOPLE CAN BE RACIST, please read this. Because again my white friends, just because your feelings may be hurt because someone called you a cracker doesn’t mean you are oppressed. Thanks.
I agree with this on all counts—I think it’s important to note, though, that racism exists elsewhere, not executed by white people—there are countries where there are very few white people, where very harsh racism still occurs between the ethnicities or races there. So I don’t think only white people can be racist—I think it’s the dominant race in that particular culture, which in many cases is not white.
These conversations on institutional racism apply to America and other European countries because those are the countries in which institutional racism is most systematized. America in particular is one of the most modern and widespread example of a country built on racial oppression. Because it holds so much racial diversity, the pervasiveness of racism exceeds many other countries, which often have ethnic diversity, but very rarely is there racial diversity.
These conversations on racism does not try to neglect other countries, because any example of institutional discrimination is usually based on ethnicity and not race, since very few countries actually support a racially diverse population. The dominant culture of some countries may be ethnocentric, but not necessarily racist.
Also, even in other countries, Euro-centric ideals and standards are rampant, which is, at least in part, a product of the very widespread European colonization.
It’s like someone took the nameless anger that I feel whenever someone says “but what about when white people get called honkey!” and wrote a beautifully coherent explanation of it. I am floored. And deeply grateful.
Lady Sloth - Silk Cherub Dress
At the Saatchi Gallery this afternoon.
I <3 the bunny necklace that was custom made for me! The rabbit looks like my pet, Jake!
Raven-Symoné has apparently been outed. People should be aware that outing is never okay. It’s an ugly, horrid, vile practice, and there’s no excuse for it. If she is gay, she deserves all the support in the world. News outlets have no right to write a ton of stories speculating about it and using her sexuality to increase readership. And quite frankly, paying attention to all these stories just gives support to the news outlets that think outing people is okay.
Not sure if you’ve seen/signed this yet, but there was a petition circling that was opposing the change to the law that would allow same-sex couples to get married in the UK. It went under the name ‘coalition for traditional marriage’.
This is the petition to counteract this. If you believe that same-sex couples should be allowed to get married and you live in the UK, please sign this. Our voices need to be heard.
Sadly you require a British postal code to sign this, so if you’re a non-UK resident then the only thing you can do is raise awareness of this for your British followers.
