1. every time a mention of azaelia banks’s transphobia comes across my dash i roll my eyes. its not because i don’t care or think its not important, but i really want the conversation to move past “hey miss banks, this is totally not okay! think about yr trans fans”. FYI folks, clearly if she keeps being transphobic her trans fans are not really on her radar of concerns. fundamentally i’m just waiting for that dialogue to become more critical. only thing is that i don’t listen nor stan for azelia banks that hard so i’m not in the position to do it
2. sometimes i check my tag for hipster funsies, but seeing a post from some black person who tried to tone police me a while back {and fundamentally every black person who uses the word nigga} say i have no reading comprehension made me hot in the face for reasons i can’t explain. its like…when POCs sip that white supremacist kool aid of “you don’t agree with my respectability politics and wont accept my tone policing so therefore you have no reading comprehension” i’d be lying if i said i didn’t want to roundhouse kick them off a cliff. its like, if you want to live in bill cosby land, that’s yr business. but the people who don’t agree with you and are capable of challenging your flawed, poorly reasoned logic don’t lack “reading comprehension”. they just give no fucks about you or what you have to say. and telling a brown person they lack reading comprehension as an attack on character will always reek of white supremacist ideals to me, even if you’re a POC saying it. it’ll always take me back to the ways in which ideas of reading comprehension and the internalization of information are not framed around how certain POC groups access and internalize information, but how well each group can access and internalize information in the same way white students do so. and when we fall short of those understood standards because they are not naturally implicit to us or we cannot assimilate to those ways of thinking fast enough or at the same rate as white students and groups of POCS who do hit those milestones in time with white students, we are considered less than. and it becomes a good POC/bad POC conversation, pull yrself up by yr bootstraps and britches type conversation all over again.
idk, my thoughts on this are a mess and some change, basically. i need more time to work out how why POCs who uphold white supremacist notions of intelligence, learning and rebuttal in an attempt to bring justice bothers the shit out of me.
