#stopmeanness

As I was scrolling down my newsfeed I saw something that really pissed me off. It was a hashtag that said #stopwhitepeople2k16. Uhm what?! So because of my skin you want to stop my people? Stop us from what exactly? Being racist? I didn’t do that. Being Homophobic? I didn’t do that. My sweet 4 year old cousin didn’t do that. But.. she’s white, I’m white, so we must be stopped. Nice, I am really loving the logic. 

Name one good thing that has come from putting an entire category of people in a box and naming them all to be bad. 

i’m waiting

Take your time.

Do you wanna call a friend and ask them for the answer?

Still can’t think of one? THAT’S RIGHT BECAUSE IT IS NEVER GOOD

HUMANS ARE INDIVIDUALS

NOT ALL BLACKS ARE BAD BUT NOT ALL BLACKS ARE GOOD

NOT ALL WHITES ARE GOOD BUT NOT ALL WHITES ARE BAD

NOT ALL PEOPLE WITH BROWN SKIN(I’d rather not list them all, you know if it applies to you or not) ARE GOOD BUT THEY’RE NOT ALL BAD EITHER

NOT ALL RED HEADS ARE (insert stereotype of your choice here)

NOT ALL BLUE EYES (insert stereotype of your choice here)

NOT ALL TALL PEOPLE

NOT ALL SHORT PEOPLE

AMERICAN

CHINESE

IRISH

BRITISH

NOT ALL

And let’s go beyond skin

NOT ALL NERDS ARE

NOT ALL CHEERLEADERS ARE

NOT ALL JOCKS ARE

NOT ALL GAY PEOPLE ARE NICE BUT NOT ALL GAYS ARE MEAN EITHER

NOT ALL TRANS

NOT ALL BI

NOT ALL-- THERE IS NO ALL WE ARE NOT ONE BIG CATEGORY WE ARE INDIVIDUALS AND I AM SO PISSED OFF RIGHT NOW I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS EVERY TIME I SEE RACISM OR SEXISM OR ANY BAD THING EVER CATEGORIZING HUMAN BEINGS

WE

ARE

NOT

ALL

BAD

OR

GOOD

Each and every person on this planet has this thing called free will. What they do with that free will determines whether they’re bad or good. Not their skin color, not their eye color, not their hair color, not what they wear or who they’re attracted to. 

And guess what. Some people won’t listen to me because I’m a white girl. Just like some won’t listen to a black boy or girl, some won’t listen to a muslim girl or boy, some won’t listen. 

Some will still be racist, some will still be sexist. Some will still be rude, some will still smoke even though they’ve seen the scary ads about how bad cigarettes are, some will still break the law, some will still be awful people and we can’t change or stop that. I’m not saying we should try to change every single person or force them to be good because that is physically impossible. But you know what is possible? Changing ourselves. Give white people the same chance that you give blacks, muslims, asians, straights, bi, trans

MY GOSH JUST BE NICE. YOU CANT MAKE EVERYONE BE NICE BUT YOU CAN BE NICE AND YOUR NICENESS WILL INFLUENCE OTHERS. YOU CANT DO ANYTHING BUT CHANGE YOURSELF AND I HOPE YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT CLUMPING PEOPLE TOGETHER AND GIVING THEM A LABEL OR A STEREOTYPE. JUST STOP

I’m not a feminist or a meninist or a whatever else there is. I want you to treat me the same way you’d treat that other girl or that other boy, ect. Just be nice. Seriously, it’s not that hard. 

#Stopstereotypes