G0dliness, Cleanliness, USA
by Mallory Culbert @mivcv, @culbert_mallory bit.ly/nevertoldus
Siberia
SOMEWHERE between cleanliness & g-dliness...
Cleanliness is not next to godliness–that’s White Supremacy talking.
White
Supremacy
is
not
a
problem
of
personal
prejudices. It is a historically-based and contemporary system of exploitation and oppression of peoples of color by white Europeans “for the purpose of maintaining and defending a system
of
wealth,
Supremacy, superiority white
power,
conscious and
entitlement
dominance
occurrence.
and
We
and
have
and
are
Under
ideas
widespread,
non-white been
privilege.”
unconscious
and
subordination
implicitly
taught
White
of
white
displays is
that
a
of
daily
white
is
moral, logical, clean, and valuable. In contrast, to be unclean (not white) is to be considered "trash."
People who do drugs are not inherently dirty; abstaining from drugs
is
not
inherently
clean.
The
history
of
a
word
is
important–what shared cultural meanings allow us to create a mutual understanding? What associations and biases have we attached
to
Cleanliness based
on
hegemon).
certain
is the In
words
political
and
imposing
order
to
individually its
whim
truly
and
standards of
reduce
the
as
a
change ruling
harm,
we
culture?
over
culture must
time, (the
confront
even the smallest units of the dominating culture (like words!) that continue the legacy of White Supremacy so we can tear it out from the root.
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