OW. Get off my foot!

[silverflight8]

Because many people plainly don't get it, here's an analogy that hopefully they can grasp. If not, there is a serious problem which is beyond my power to rectify or help in any way.
To borrow it from someone's lovely post (author, unfortunately, forgotten; if you do find them, please pm me):


If someone steps on my foot and it hurts, I am going to say: "OW!" And the harder they step on my foot, the louder I will shout it. OW, OW, OW. I'm not at the moment concerned with the delicate ears of the other person, because OW their stomping hurts and no I will not be quiet.

If that person continues to stay on my foot, I'm going to try to dislodge said person, because it hurts. It's not hurting you. It's hurting me.


When people say: "That's offensive, and x, y, z is why," it's not because they want to hurt you. It's because it's hurting them.

Why people who take my culture and twist it to suit their needs can't understand this, I don't know. OW. Go away. If I've linked you to this post after an argument/discussion/feeble parody of a discusion of racism, I invite you to educate yourself and read through this.

War may be inevitable, oppression may be inevitable, but @$#%^ no I am not going to take it lying down.  *snarl*

'pologies to f-list, who don't need this.

Comments

[azuire.livejournal.com]

There's this other analogy:

Cyclist is hit by car. He is badly injured and bleeding. Ambulance arrives. Paramedics go to help cyclist, and then car owner shows up and demands treatment. (My airbags went off! I could have been hurt!) Paramedics ignore bleeding cyclist and attend to car owner. Cyclist says WTF ARE YOU DOING I'M BLEEDING TO DEATH HERE. Car owner tells cyclist to shut up.

Le sigh. D:

[silverflight8.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the clueless bystanders! The ones that'll shout down the cyclist and advocate for the car driver, because OBVIOUSLY car drivers are discriminated against...