#marginalised groups

these can include:

• First Nations Autistics

• culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD)

Autistics

• LGBTQIA+ Autistics

• visibly disabled Autistics (can include Middle/ High Support Needs Autistics and /or Autistics with additional visible disabilities)

link is here and in my linktree! (pinned post)

I mean ...

This is one of the reasons that testimonials have less argumentative weight than actual reputable verifiable evidence and sources in any information sharing.

Don't get tricked by pretenders on the internet telling you they're from marginalised backgrounds when all they're doing is pedalling non voting and anti voting propaganda . This was a proven tactic in 2016 , they're doing it again

Things like "voting doesn't do anything/ make a difference " -

Or one like "I'll vote third party instead" when everyone knows all third parties do is take votes away from the parties big enough to defeat the worst ones, especially in elections like this. That "logic" is used by : bots, paid disinformation anti voting peddlers, and idiots who think that will make them blameless and unaccountable.

Please engage critical thinking when encountering any information. And research any information you receive beyond what you first encounter from multiple reputable sources before you accept it

If you’re in an environment where people, if they don’t actively want you dead at the very least would be very happy if people like you didn’t exist, then just bear in mind that survival in itself is an act of resistance.

I’m thinking specifically of growing up not-straight in a pretty homophobic environment (at school and in the community, not at home), but I think it probably applies to other situations too.

Sometimes, it isn’t easy or possible or sensible to stick your head above the parapet every time. Sometimes you need to lie just to get through the day. Sometimes, you don’t have the option of lying, but it’s still easier to bite your tongue and keep your head down, and sometimes that’s what you need to do- particularly when you’re young, particularly when you’re powerless. Sometimes, it’s just about doing your best to get through the day and hoping it doesn’t fuck you up too badly.

You are precious and worth something, and if you keep on going, there will come a point where you can make a difference. But you have to live long enough to get there.

I think, in terms of homophobia, things have got a lot better in just 10-15 years. Things are a long way from perfect, but the school I teach in is unrecognisable in that sense from the school I went to- despite the fact that in many ways they are very similar. And sometimes I wonder who I’d be if I’d grown up in an environment like we have now, rather than the one I did grow up in. But I survived, and that’s worth something, when not everyone did.

okay i cant really keep this in any longer about how i feel about the tumblr social justice community. Please bear in mind i consider myself an ally to intersectional feminism, am bisexual and jewish as well as form the UK and am in absolute support for gender and racial equality throughout the whole world. 

While i love the fact that this is a safe place for LBGT+ people and POC and people with disabilities physical and mental, i cant help but feel the sjw community while well meaning, is extremely selfish One example of this is the total lack of attention given to the oppression of jewish people in the modern day. Anti-semitism is rampant in the pro palestinian movement (i believe in justice for palestine so dont go there) but i am not happy with the anti semitism the movement is harbouring. As a case in point i would love to know how many pro palestinians know what Zionism actually is and that it is not an inherently evil cause. To be honest if you call yourself an outright anti zionist, you are either anti semitic or confused about its meaning, i hope to god its the latter. all zionism is and ever has been is the belief in the creation of a jewish state. considering that there currently isn't one and the closest thing jewish people have to a jewish state is Israel, then i dont see how the idea of the movement is evil. People I'm sure may have committed horrible acts in the name of zionism but the idea itself is not, in my opinion at least.  Also, the only time oppression of the jewish people is ever spread through the SJW community is if the post or story has a motive other than the oppression of jews. Case in point, the post that went around about how JK Rowling had whitewashed her book and SJW  bloggers used the example of one jewish character in the book to disgrace her. while this can be considered an issue, the much larger issue of a jewish guard being killed by a Copenhagen synagogue has gained little to no attention.  Talking of writers, John Green has been found to have said anne frank died of "illness" amongst other things which is an outright disrespectful and borderline anti semitic statement to say the least, but SJW's continue to only hate him for the reason he writes manic pixie dream girls, even though he disproved that in a reply to an anon.  One last example is the treatment of celebrities who do anti semitic things. Niki minaj is still an icon despite her poor apology for her heavy nazi referencing lyric video. (she is amazing as a feminist icon and a talented artist but i cant believe that one slipped past so easily).  macklemore as well was totally forgiven for any of his wrongdoings when he was seen at furgason protests despite his even worse apology for going on stage and dressing as a stereotypical new york jew. 

the fact is i could write about many more stories like this about tumblr's lack of support for the jewish community. Jewish people are not the only ones marginalised on here either in fact, romani people as well as men with mental health disorders, despite facing oppression and  problems in life are also given little to no attention. I would like to say to any person reading this who considers themselves a hardcore SJW that you cannot pick and choose which marginalised groups you can and cannot stand up for, there needs to be minority solidarity and we need to listen to every marginalised group and their experiences without bias and i dont want to see my cultural identity used just to further someone else's ulterior motives if at all. This is a self proclaimed safe place for marginalised groups, however i am not really seeing it to be honest. 

A quick post about a theory of where the misconception the feminism is about hating men comes from. Using feminism/sexism for brevity here, and because a discussion about feminism vs MRAs is what made me think about it, but this probably applies for any marginalised group.

I think it comes from two central facts:

1. Oppression is largely invisible to those with privelege unless they make a conscious effort to learn about it

2. Most oppression is committed by people who are unaware they are being oppressive, and aren't intentionally or maliciously doing so.

This leads to two attitudes towards feminism i.e. women who are vocal about their experiences of sexism.

1. Women are exaggerating. Sexism isn't really a big problem, because if it was, men would know about it! They'd see it all the time! Women are mistaken, or fishing for sympathy, or bitter or lying. We don't NEED feminism!

2. Defensiveness. I haven't done anything wrong! I'm not a bad person! I don't HATE women. I'm not being sexist on purpose or campaigning to take away their votes, so why are women criticising me? Why are they angry at me?

Combined, these create the attitude that:

Women/feminists are angry at men for no good reason.

When this isn't true at all.

Think of a time when a woman told you about a piece of sexism she'd experienced and you had no idea stuff like that was going on, or that she'd been dealing with it. (Jack - for years I thought I was naturally inferior at games because I was a girl not because I hardly fricking played them, and you had no idea). Ask a woman what her last experience with sexism was. Now multiply that by a hundred. Because for every one she's told you about there are a dozen more she hasn't. And you had no idea, right? Like I said, invisible.

Women have a right to be angry at those who oppress them. They have a right to say "Dude, I know you're not purposefully trying to be evil, but you're hurting me and being a dick, please stop it." That's all feminism is. A plea to please stop hurting us. And yeah, we get angry, because most of the time the reply we get is "Shut up. I'm not hurting you. Calm down."