F.A.Q.

Q: *any comment telling any of us to go kill ourselves, slit our wrists, etc*

Rose: LOL

Kevin: Yeah, that’s just an unbelievably shitty thing for you to say. Please refrain from being an asshole and triggering people who have a history of mental illness. I’m sorry we deserve to die for calling out your bullshit, but please realize that many of our followers (and a few of the moderators/administrators), have histories with mental health issues likely linked to the struggles they’ve faced.

Sprinx: Don’t care and odds are if you tell anyone to kill themselves you’re a piece of shit.

Kelly: on top of what everyone else said… like. this is a group of people advocating for equality of marginalized groups with the goal of improving society as a whole so that it is a safe place for those who are not safe currently. there are bad people out there for you to take all this pent-up-privilege-filled anger to just take a deep breath and move the fuck on if you don’t like the word cracker or whatever

Trixstra: I think this is vile and completely inconsiderate of those who suffer with mental illnesses and/or past traumas.

Yael: I’m actually depressed, so…major dick move?? But either way, still a dick move. I mean, you can’t solve hate with hateTM and all that.

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Q: *any comment calling us reverse racists / misandrists / heterophobes / cisphobes and any other ableist slurs as a result of this*

Rose: Piggy Azalea is not real, just like reverse racism.

Kevin: Reverse oppression is a myth which in its very design is supposed to draw attention from actually oppressed people, to their already over-represented oppressors. The claim of reverse oppression in and of itself is a form of oppression seeing as it contributes to the erasure of the struggles of actually marginalized people. Please refrain from comparing your hurt feelings (paper cuts) to the actual institutionalized oppression that has caused others suffering for centuries (fatal wounds).

Sprinx: First of all, the term “reverse racism” is a lot of bullshit. There is nothing reverse about it. Racism is racism, period, and POC’s cannot be racist by a sociological definition, only prejudiced.

Kelly: lmao no shhh you do not understand anything goodbye

Trixstra: The privilege equate the disenfrachised gaining equality to them being oppressed, this is sociapathy at it’s best and desperate at it’s worst.

Yael: Ok, but get this: shut the fuck up.

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Q: *any comments telling us to go to hell or shit like that*

Rose: I’m from Hell. You failed.

Kevin: I’m not sure how to reply to this overwhelming lack of creativity, but the fact that it’s such a frequent message implies that it needs to be added here. Anyway, I’m under the impression that a fairly good friend of mine has a throne down there so I’m assuming it won’t be that bad.

Sprinx: I’m an atheist so this isn’t really applicable to me, nor is it a threat, telling me that I’m going to hell is just pointless.

Trixstra: I’m already in hell battling all these white devils so where else am I suppose to go.

Yael: I don’t even believe in hell, it doesn’t really matter.

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Q: Do you hate white people?

Rose: No, they just need to quit their tradition of killing black people. Oh yeah my friends are white lol

Kevin: Nah, I’m not sure why anyone is getting this impression. Honestly, because of the places and communities I was raised in, most of my friends and significant others have been white. I don’t hate white people. I do, however, hate ignorance and the refusal to accept white privilege as a fact. Please don’t confuse me calling out oppression with me trying to actively reverse our rolls.

Sprinx: I’m half white, I don’t hate white people. I hate the way they treat POCs and get upset when you call them out on their shit.

Trixstra: I hate the construct of whiteness because it is inherently sinister and continues to destroy POC and our planet just to preserve white people who are the minority race. Individual white people no but as a whole yes and I am justified for my feelings.

Yael: This is such a loaded question though. Like, what the hell do you want us to say? “Yes, we hate all you fucking crackers!! Mwahahahaha!!!!” ?????

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Q: Spread love, not hate! Hate breeds more hate!

Rose: Suck my ass. See ya in hell buddy <3

Kevin: I don’t know how many more times I can say this, honestly, but: RESISTANCE doesn’t breed hate. Please stop implying that anything other than sitting down and taking it is making the situation worse, because, at the end of the day, even if we did just that we’d still be oppressed. Never forget that oppressed people were oppressed before they hated their oppressors. Willful ignorance will not be tolerate, especially if it is to the detriment of oppressed peoples.

Sprinx: I generally take a rather passive approach to dealing with racial and disciminatory issues, however, sometimes it can become overwhelming when people don’t understand and I lash out. If I ever say I hate white people, I apologize, I do not.

Trixstra: I’m not here for a kumbaya circle I’m here for equality that is reinforced by laws. You don’t have to like me for being black or gay, but you don’t have the right to oppress anyone because of your on vile bigotry. Oppression isn’t about feelings it’s about institutions and systems strategically put in place to benefit only a few at the cost of many others.

Yael: Exactly! Why the fuck can’t Nazis/white supremacists/other various racists get this through their heads yet??—oh wait. You’re telling that to a group of anti-racists on the internet cracking white people jokes. NEVERMIND.

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Q: Can people of color appropriate?

A: Yes, and it’s still wrong. White people say this when they realize that wearing other cultures as fashion items is wrong. Although it’s wrong and inappropriate and disgusting, it doesn’t happen on the same grand scale as white people appropriating culture. We will try to call people of color out for appropriating cultures but white people are the majority of the issue, so we will continue to call out mainly white people. It’s also evident that PoC have been brainwashed into thinking that it’s okay. But that doesn’t justify anything, appropriation is appropriation. Of course and it is wrong but white people still hold institutional power to profit off people’s culture while simultaneously demonizing and crushing people for celebrating their own culture.

i.e Pharrell Williams and the headdress he wore; not cute, nor is it okay.

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Q: But Martin Luther King Jr. said…

A: “First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action;’ who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a ‘more convenient season.’”

-Letter from Birmingham Jail By Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., 16 April 1963

So shut the fuck up.