It's Not My 30th Birthday!

it effects everything.

being trans is easier when youre white.

being gay is easier when youre white.

being disabled is easier when youre white.

being a woman is easier when youre white.

being autistic is easier when youre white.

oppression is eased when you are white, as you get extra privileges, and your whiteness is seen as a positive characteristic that in some ways counter-balances your other forms of being a minority. whiteness controls everything.

you are automatically way more innocent in your own oppression as a gay, trans, disabled person because of your whiteness.

three things:

1. it’s true

2. white people get pissed when i bring this up/wear this shirt

Your parents and grandparents had the American dream. In the 1970’s Republican CEO’s began breaking unions by shipping jobs to non-union (right to work) red states in the South and them outsourced them overseas. Ronald Reagan and his Republican henchmen completely killed the American dream beginning in the early 80’s.

All the economic problems you have today are because of the modern Republican Party. They took away unions, they stopped taxing billionaires, they allowed stock buybacks, they rolled back environmental and workplace regulations, they busted unions that provided good wages and pensions, they oversaw the stagnation of the minimum wage, they allowed charter schools to feed on public education like vampires, ad infinitum ad nauseum.

ppl say "we get it ur gay stfu already" and he says ok imma make a whole music video with butt ass naked men

A twitter thread by Caitlin J. Stout @CaitlinJStout from Feb 25 2021 reading,

A friend asked the other day what percentage of people I went to youth group with “deconstructed” and what percentage remained evangelical. As I thought about it, I realized that for the most part it was the kids who took their faith the most seriously who eventually walked away.

Those of us who tearfully promised that we would follow Jesus anywhere eventually followed him out the door. The Queer kids, more than anyone, learned exactly what it meant to work out our faith with fear and trembling.

They told us to read the Bible and take it seriously and then mocked us for becoming “social justice warriors.”

Now they’re warning us not to deconstruct to the point of meaninglessness.

But they took a chisel to God until he fit in a box. They “deconstructed” the concept of love until it allowed them to tolerate sexual abuse, celebrate white supremacy, and look away from kids in cages.