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Dear Random People
Dear random people who don’t read here, but happened to follow a link from one of several generous fellow bloggers whom I adore,
We don’t play that “who has it worst” bullshit game here. Don’t bring that nonsense here. Ever. Take it somewhere else. There are several blog communities out there that delight in this sort of thing. This is not one of them. I’m not interested in entertaining questions of whether racism is worse than sexism or sexism is worse than classism or classism is really truly the worstest of them all. If you’re asking those types of questions or trying to answer those types of questions, you are at the wrong blog. Disagree with me, please. Call me on my shit, please. I welcome the opportunity to grow and learn. I don’t, however, see the need to try and trump one form of oppression with another. Sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, disablism (I can go on and on) are all treated with equal seriousness here.
Get it? Got it? Good.
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Great post Kev. Made me grin and say hell yeah at the same time
Of all people to bring that weirdness to, it is almost (except for the nausea factor naturally) funny in how absurd it is that they’d bring it to you. I’m just saying, you are widely regarded (yes some of us have talked about you behind your back with fondness) as being a person who - as you pointed out in the recent Hillary-assassination related post - confronts all forms of wrongness, even if/when it’s being waged against people you think are, themselves, in the wrong.
It’s a shame that that message even has to be repeated over and over again.
[...] won’t be noting this because I enjoy playing Victim Olympics–I am firmly with Kevin on the uselessness and offensiveness of that–but because some of you literally don’t seem to understand anything else. You’re [...]
If they knew you Kev they would have known better.
I don’t remember who it was; but one Sista refered to it at her blog as the tooth and nail clawing of the oppression Olympics.
@Eric Stoller: Thanks! I’m really sick of seeing people try to play this game.
@Joan: Um, don’t you have to have a lot of readers to be “widely regarded”? Heh. But seriously, thanks for the compliment.
@GallingGalla: Yeah, it is a shame.
@Yobachi: I don’t know if she came up with the phrase or not, but I heard of the phrase “oppression Olympics” for the first time from Nubian over at Blackademic. I really wish she was still blogging because she was a bad ass.
Hear, hear!
i love your blog.