Quote reblogged from Raspberry Flavoured Lipstick with 5,267 notes
The problem with sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist, etc., remarks and “jokes” is not that they’re offensive, but that by relying for their meaning on harmful cultural narratives about privileged and marginalized groups they reinforce those narratives, and the stronger those narratives are, the stronger the implicit biases with which people are indoctrinated are. That’s real harm, not just “offense.
I Don’t Care If You’re Offended by Scott Madin (via inherhipstheresrevolutions)
Reblogging because it is so, so pertinent to that racist clusterfuck that happened yesterday in ontd_fb, and it is stated much more eloquently than my attempt to explain why racist jokes are not “just” jokes.
(via otherstars)