keltik45:

cishetsbeingcishet:

justherefordaart:

thisoneshade:

LOUDER

Skepticism isn’t a lack of support though. Proper diagnosis is important, and if you don’t test positive, it’s time to check for other potential causes, like overconsumption of foods that promote estrogen/testosterone count in the body. It’s always better to find the right answer than the answer you wanted.

thats an entire paragraph that couldve been summed up with “im a reddit user who believes in the concept of soyboys”

Just fucking accept your kid if they say they’re trans and fuck your ‘potential causes’ filth.

Safe Spaces for Colonial Apologists

revolutionaryeye:


by
Jonathan Saha

I’ve just returned to university following a period of parental
leave. Although I was careful not to get drawn into work during my time
off, I could not help but notice the controversy around Oxford Professor
Nigel Biggar’s “Ethics and Empire” project. I also read about
Universities Minister Jo Johnson’s attack on “safe space culture”. Both
Biggar’s defenders and Johnson have justified their positions by
claiming to be defending freedom of speech. However, they are better
understood as retrenching colonial thinking in universities.

Nigel Biggar’s research project proposes to take a cost-benefit
analysis of British imperial history, weighing the bad things against
the good. In defending the project he called on “us British to moderate our post-imperial guilt” (emphasis added) in an article in The Times. There have been some excellent critiques of the naive simplicity of the research methods proposed, most notably an excellent open-letter drafted by a range of prominent Oxford academics of different disciplinary backgrounds. This led to a backlash from right-wing newspapers against these academics.

For me, any defence of British imperialism is by implication a
defence of white supremacy. To take the example of British India—my own
field of study—there were always exceptions and protections for white
populations written into the laws. Similarly in the political sphere
there were always positions of authority reserved for white rulers only.
Elizabeth Kolsky’s amazing book on white violence in colonial India
is a great place to learn more about how these privileges operated. To
judge British colonial rule by its effects without taking into account
its fundamentally racist legal and bureaucratic structures is to suggest
that there are circumstances when white supremacy is acceptable. The
argument that positive things were done through British imperialism that
might excuse its inherent racism (let alone the numerous atrocities
committed by British colonial regimes across the world) is, thus, also a
subtle defence of white supremacy…….

Continued:- https://colonizinganimals.blog/2018/01/04/safe-spaces-for-colonial-apologists/