#reverse oppression

if you actually feel like you’re being harassed when you butt into oppressed people's spaces online, then just Log Off and use your braincells for once

2) This is not about them as individuals, but rather about systemic racial oppression. 

I’m pretty sure people like this aren’t out to make the world better. They’re more interested in keeping things the way they are.

No. Heterosexual people, cisgender people, white people, and males hold institutionalized power in our society. Therefore, they cannot by definition experience systemic oppression at the hands of groups who do not have the same privileges as them. Lgbtq+ people can be jerks to het people, PoC can be jerks to white people, trans/nonbinary people can be jerks to cis people, and women can be jerks to men. But that doesn't mean it's "phobia" or oppression.

REGs: Oh no, our status worsened :( Maybe if we stopped catering to patriarchy we would have enough power to bring it down... ... Nah, let's harass minorities some more. That'll surely work.

Some people simplify racism as one group not liking another, and think “racist” and “prejudiced” are interchangeable. But racism is a concept that operates on both an individual and institutional level. At its core, racism is a system in which a dominant race benefits off the oppression of others — whether they want to or not. We don’t live in a society where every racial group has equal power, status, and opportunity. Yes, white people all over the world and throughout history have experienced atrocities like slavery and persecution. But in the very specific context of American history, white people have not been enslaved, colonized, or forced to segregate on the scale that black people have. They do not face housing or job discrimination, police brutality, poverty, or incarceration at the level that black people do.This is not to say that they do not experience things like poverty and police brutality at all. But again, not on the same scale — not even close.That is the reality of racism. Its heirarchical. Dominant or privileged groups benefit, often in unconscious ways, from the disempowerment of subordinated or targeted groups. A common argument made by white folk that has absolutely no merit is affirmative action. They argue that affirmative action is a prime example of reverse racism because it privileges PoC and disadvantages whites. They believe deserving white students are discriminated against while academically unqualified students are given highly coveted college or company positions ― just because they happen to tick the “ethnic minority” box. This argument ignores the fact that affirmative action did not come out of nowhere ― there was a need for a system that would address the decades of underrepresentation of people of color both academically and in the job world. Also, purely factually speaking even now, white college students are 40% more likely to get private scholarships than mminorities. And although 62% of college students in America are white, they recieve 69% of all private scholarships!!!! whattttttttttttt Heres a fun video of a comedian explaining exactly what would have to happen in order for racism against white people to exist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw_mRaIHb-M