white privilege
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L’Oreal Drops 1st Transgender Model Because Her Post Calling Out White Privilege Is ‘at Odds With’ Their ‘Values’
Munroe Bergdorf, the first transgender model to ever be hired by beauty brand L’Oreal, was dropped from her contract Friday after a Facebook post in which she discussed and condemned racism and white privilege was posted by an online media outlet and sparked outrage from white people who don’t like it when white privilege is…
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The 5 Types of ‘Becky’
Becky: (noun); a white woman who uses her privilege as a weapon, a ladder or an excuse. Ex: “A random Becky hit me up on Twitter to explain why not all white women are racist.” What started as a controversial term for fellatio has blossomed into an all-encompassing term for a specific class of white…
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Taylor Swift and the Tale of Unstoppable White Privilege Meeting Immovable White Privilege
I’ll be honest. I thought it was going to be a boring-ass week—until Taylor Swift “surprise”-dropped her new single from her next album, “Reputation,” this past Friday. And, you know, everyone acted as expected, mostly. Taylor’s detractors fried her accordingly. Half of her stans pretended to like the single, because that is the cross they…
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Amy Schumer Is Delusional if She Thinks She’s in the Same League as Dave Chappelle or Chris Rock
Amy Schumer has a vagina. Amy Schumer talks about her vagina a lot. Amy Schumer also talks about her vagina smelling like farm animals. Amy Schumer talks about binge drinking and passing out. These are all of the things I learned while watching Schumer’s The Leather Special on Netflix. Schumer is also a white woman…
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White People, Ain’t Nothing Funny About White Supremacy, so Now Ain’t the Time for Jokes About It
Black people have always used humor as a way to cope with terror and trauma; I have no issue with us doing the same regarding the rioting in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. But I struggle to understand how white people can set their fingers to type and be tickled alongside us, and decide that…
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On Loving White People and Hating Whiteness
“There is a difference between loving white people and loving whiteness.” This is something I often say when I begin social justice conversations around topics related to race. For some, the concept is easy to process and we begin a conversation around what it means to be white and a person of privilege. For others,…
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Maybe Now Isn’t the Time, Guys
If you’re tempted to point out that you’re one of the good ones right now … please don’t. If you are upset that people of color are upset that their lives and beliefs are under assault by a resurgent, resilient, citronella-candle-filled white supremacist movement, empowered by a White House that can’t call a racist a…
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2 White Cops Steal Weed From Evidence Locker, Sell It and Get Off With Probation Because Their Families Had ‘Already Suffered’
Imagine being a sheriff’s deputy and being so white that after you and your fellow deputy confess to stealing weed from the sheriff’s office’s evidence locker, selling it in the community with the help of a former snitch who puts it out on the street for you, and then sharing the profits in a three-way…
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If Game of Thrones Had Black Characters, This Week’s Episode Would’ve Been Totally Different
You can apologize now. Many of you thought I was reaching a bit when we first started this series, but as each episode has progressed, it’s become clearer that Game of Thrones really is basically an entertaining, fantastical primer on dealing with white America. After episode 4, there should be no doubt. There were explicit…
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Cops Release Bodycam Footage of White Privilege Gone Wild After Woman Claims Sexual Assault
I know one of the things white people get tired of hearing is the line, “If he were white, that never would have happened.” They heard it about Trayvon Martin. They heard it about Mike Brown. Most recently, after police partially justified the killing of Philando Castile by saying the officer smelled marijuana in his…