Pierce Harlan, “false rape” activist, gives up blogging in disgust with fellow MRAs. Then he doesn’t.
Some other impressive flip-flops
We’ve seen a lot of epic flip-floppery from Men’s Rightsers in the last few days on the subject of the Occidental College fiasco — that is, for those who haven’t been following it closely, the organized spamming of Occidental’s anonymous online rape reporting form with false reports by Reddit MRAs and 4channers. Notably, the Men’s Rights subreddit mod known as sillymod went from blaming the false reports on trolls one day to hailing them as necessary activism the next.
But a reader has alerted me to an even more epic flip-flop, this one from Pierce Harlan, a blogger obsessed with what he sees as an epidemic of false rape accusations.
Harlan started out as one of the voices of reason — at least by MRA standards — on the Occidental College spamming. Refraining from the hysteria of his fellow Men’s Rightsers about Occidental College’s anonymous form, he actually pointed out in one post that the form wasn’t being used to punish anyone and that anonymous reporting may be “a necessary evil” in order to get a true picture of the extent of rape.
On Friday, he went further, announcing in a post on his blog The Community of the Wrongly Accused that he was so disgusted with the behavior of his fellow Men’s Rightsers in the Occidental fiasco that he was planning to give up blogging entirely. The phony reports from MRAs, he sadly noted, “did no favors for the wrongly accused,” and this sort of “activism” only served to make MRAs look bad.
[T]he actions of the spammers were misguided at best, puerile and malicious at worst. They’ve given those of us who are trying to raise awareness about these issues in a serious way a black eye. I couldn’t care less how some radical feminist characterizes this incident, my concern is how it plays to middle America — and this can’t be spun in a positive way.
The incident, he wrote, was
the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. We’ve long sought to engage our readers, both here and via Reddit, to take certain actions that we felt could actually make a difference for the wrongly accused. These efforts invariably were met with either a lukewarm response or the sound of crickets chirping. …
Yet, now, someone suggests men’s righters spam a school’s rape reporting site, and for that they come out in droves. Hundreds of false rape reports. …
If we could have had this kind of support for the various initiatives we’ve tried to launch, I think we actually could have made a difference for the wrongly accused. We didn’t.
And so, he concluded in frustration,
the time has come to hand this blog over to others who will continue to raise awareness about the injustices to the wrongly accused. I will continue to follow the issue and offer my two cents on issues I think are important, but I’m not going to run this blog any longer.
Yep. That’s right. MRAs are such shitty “activists” that their most notable and attention-getting work of “activism” since I’ve started this blog drove the MRA most dedicated to that issue to such disgust and despair that he announced he was basically giving up the fight.
But Harlan’s retirement didn’t last long.
Apparently deciding that his camel’s back could handle a bit more straw after all, Harlan quickly took down the post announcing his retirement — though it’s still up, at least for now, in Google cache, and when that goes away, here’s a handy screenshot. (In case you’re not an ant, click to see it full size.)
On Saturday, Harlan came out with a new post suggesting that maybe he’d been wrong to challenge the hysteria of the false-report-submitting MRAs in the first place. Remember that bit from above in which Harlan said that the actions of the false-report spammers “can’t be spun in a positive way[?]” Well, Harlan decided he was going to give it the old college try:
Progressives are having a bona fide conniption over the Reddit Men’s Righters who spammed Occidental College’s anonymous rape reporting system with fake “rape” claims (from what we can tell, they were not really false rape claims, just snarky comments about the injustice of anonymous reporting). The righteous indignation from feminists is deafening. The spam attack, they tell us, is typical men’s rights hysteria, the result of an undeservedly privileged class being stripped of its power.
The men’s righters were out to prove that it’s too easy to abuse the college’s anonymous reporting system. We disagreed with the men’s righters and said we weren’t much concerned about the anonymous reporting system, but the more we read the progressive take on the incident, the more we wonder if we blew the call — maybe we should be concerned..
There was, of course, no reference to his post from the previous day, no acknowledgment that the “activism” he was now defending was the very same “activism” that had led him only one day earlier to decide to quit blogging altogether.
Down the memory hole it went. (But Google cache remembers.)
I guess when you’re a Men’s Rights activist, you have to take what you can get, and incredibly shitty slacktivism is about as good as it gets.
Posted on December 22, 2013, in antifeminism, false accusations, flip flops, hypocrisy, irony alert, MRA, not-quite-plausible deniability, rape culture, rationalization hamster, reddit and tagged antifeminism, men's rights, MRA, occidental college, rape culture, reddit. Bookmark the permalink. 140 Comments.
16 days running the filters for a few hours and no dead fish? What magic filters do you have?
Shadow — it won’t melt the ice, but sand and kitty liter both provide traction. You can also try a fish store, it’s more expensive (probably, I’ve never bought de-icing salt) but they’ll have aquarium salt is large quantities.
Hey, Shadow, how did the trip Down Under go?
MRAs: We hate false rape accusations we’re going to spam a university with HUNDREDS of false rape accusations.
Hey, shouldn’t they all be arrested for perjury right now, like they are always hollering about whenever a woman accuses someone of rape?
Stay safe, Torontonians (or whatever you call yourselves) and everyone else.
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@dallasapple
The system that hit us was supposed to have come out of TX, so it may well be the same one that hit y’all earlier.
I think you could be right.
OOPS!!! I have had blockquote monster sex TWO times now!
Could most likely be.
On the topic, oof. The only thing I can say is feminists love working in information technology and posting on Reddit!
@serrana
Storm stories!
1. I remember Ike. We luckily dodged a bullet there. However, that night my cat decided to go out and catch a rat, bring it inside, and drop it at my feet. If only she had killed it first. Instead of spending the night worrying about a hurricane, I got to chase a rat around the bathroom it ran into. Damn thing squeezed between the bathroom cabinet and the wall. Finally caught it and released it into the wild. (Didn’t seem fair to kill a rat which came into the house against its will.)
2. Living in Omaha we had 3 days of rain followed by a cold snap and early ice storm. The leaves were still green on the trees. A lot of the trees exploded and there were piles of dead trees for years afterward. This was a big deal in Nebraska. Arbor day is a state holiday.
3. Living in Northwest Iowa we had a blizzard and terrible wind which caused snow drifts the size of houses and ice almost an inch thick on the road outside my house. I remember as a kid being amazed at seeing bits of branches suspended in the ice.
I am sure other people have better stories. Toronto gets lake effect snow, doesn’t it?
Opium4themasses — when I was a kid we had an F4 tornado, well, close enough my mother’s rose bush got swept up (it’s okay, somebody else’s landed in the yard…which is so weird in its own right). Lost power for 3 days, just before my 4th birthday. My father lost all his fish. Amazingly, no one was killed, though the damage was impressive. This was, fuck, 25 years ago come July. Until fairly recently you could still find buildings with damage and spots where, if you knew
there’ debentures(dafuq autocorrect?) there’s been a tornado, it was obviously wtf happened to that tree, etc.Now, for perspective here…this was in Connecticut. We just don’t get tornados like that, or at all really. We get fucking blizzards, not F4s.
Potentially the best part? My father was at work, heard about the tornado and called to ask my mother to go outside and get his cooler. She refused. She did, however, chase my kiddie pool in a circle before realizing wtf was going on and shutling us to the basement. Us being nearly 4 year old me, my 10 month old brother, and my fucking ex-step-grandmother. She’s insufferable at the best of times, stuck in a basement hoping the house above you stays there? And I, of course, knew just enough of what was going on to acquire a serious fear of tornados.
Folks in tornado alley — idfk how you do, those things scare the shit out of me.
@ argenti: one of the nice things about living in southern Ontario is we never show up on any Discovery channel disaster specials.
Parts of Toronto are still out. I don’t know why, given we’re less well funded, but we are rarely out more than an hour or so no matter how bad the weather is. Lost power yesterday for 25 min & 10 min. I have nothing but respect for the lineworkers & forestry folks for going out in this crap. I have a gas stove & lots of scented motherfucking candles to keep the warm if it does go out.
No matter what happens, the MRA shitweasels will not change, they’ll just double down. David will never lack for material & popcorn shares will never lose value. I’ve seen crazy like this before, no amount of reality will impinge on them.
@takshak: I live just outside D/FW and so far, we haven’t either, although I’d argue a large part of it might just be sheer luck more than anything else…..
*sigh* so close to 24 hours. Cloudiah, I need another unicorn.
Takshak — Clicky to see why calling MRAs crazy doesn’t fly around here.
opium4themasses - wasn’t your kitty kind, distracting you from worrying about Ike! Cats are so thoughtful like that.
Yes, but thanks to you I’ve finally figured out how to quote on here! *said with joy and embarrassment of not being able to figure this out myself
That sound you all just heard was my head.
STOP THE “CRAZY” TALK ALREADY. THE BABY JESUS IS CRYING, HAPPY NOW?
I mean shit, is it so hard to do?
@Takshak: Also, I’ll have to second Argenti…..and also, he put it better than I could.
@Yutolia: Still having trouble with that myself…..glad to see that you’ve figured it out, though.
@alternativesteve90
I’m not sure if Argenti told you yet, but Argenti’s pronouns are ze/zir/zirs, not he/him/his.
Just throwing this out here:
Maybe putting a link to the article Argenti linked to in the Welcome Package would help? And a statement about ableism?
I know there’s been a recent string of “crazy” comments, and there was a discussion about WTF was going on and calling people out about it and how to do that. Maybe having the statement and link in the Welcom Package and/or a “please read this before you comment” would help cut down on it.
I don’t know, though.
sparky, that’s a fantastic idea! I’ll go ask cloudiah what she thinks.
We had another outage here this morning, but it only lasted about 15-20 min. Hoping that’s the last. Toronto is really having the worst of it this year, though, and Robbo won’t call an emergency, because that means the deputy mayor gets all the glory, and His Frodness has to stand there looking all red-faced and useless. Fuck their luck…
Ally — thanks, I don’t think I had done my usual introduction.
alternatesteve90 — thanks, but I didn’t write that post, just saving that link since seriously, I’m going to have a herd of unicorns at this rate. (I’m collecting virtual unicorns for every 24 hours we fail to go without an ableist comment, after saying I thought a unicorn more likely than 24 hours without such comment on Saturday, I now have two unicorns)
Regarding adding it to the Welcome Package, I love the idea.
I like the idea of adding something to the Welcome Package, and will do it when I get a chance. Ally, will you email me the link just so I don’t forget what thread it was on?
It’s been Ableist Comment of the Day around here lately. What’s up with that?
“MRAs: We hate false rape accusations we’re going to spam a university with HUNDREDS of false rape accusations.
Hey, shouldn’t they all be arrested for perjury right now, like they are always hollering about whenever a woman accuses someone of rape?”
Not at all because of WPS (White Penis Syndrome). WPS means that you will not be held criminally liable for anything you ever do. Examples include Dominic Strauss Kahn, George Zimmerman, and Julian Assange.
And I’d like to add my echo for the end of all the “crazy” flinging.
I sent you an email like 45 mins ago. =P It has the link.
Cloudiah — I’ve started collecting them for the Borg, I may steal “Ableist Comment of the Day” off you if people keep doubling down (I won’t mock innocent mistakes, though at this point I’m not feeling too generous since we’ve said this Every Damned Day for like a week now, maybe longer)
Yeah, I’m not even reading all the comments and I’ve noticed a lot. 0_o
I’ll draft something for the Welcome Package when I get home tonight; I might send it to you and Ally to see if the wording is good. Or if you have suggestions for where it might go, and how to introduce the link, email me.
How’s your mother doing btw? Hope she’s doing well.
As for the link…I’m feeling snarky, maybe introduce it with “you know your other -isms, but how about ableism?”
Or put it at the end of the Welcome Package itself as “also introduced — a quick guide on why not to call MRAs crazy”
Introduced? Included. Spellcheck says I need sleep. I won’t get loopy for another 4~6 hours, but then I get my second wind and pull at least six more and going to bed at 4am on 34+ hours awake means getting up at dusk and FAIL.
Mmm, insomnia.
Oh and LBT’s Borg critters are up, took care of that earlier. Also, folks who don’t read their email, pop over to the post on monthly themes and weigh in for January’s. The Hivemind needs minions!
I read the email, but I’m afraid I’ve no idea for themes, Argenti, even without the “preferably do some writing for said theme” rider. The only writing I’m even thinking about these days is what goes in these comments.
As someone who has personally battled against misconceptions about mental illness while using clever phrases like “bat shit crazy” in conversation without a second thought, this board’s stance on ableism led to one of my Top Uncomfortable Realizations About Myself of 2013.
IIRC, I avoided saying something monumentally stupid when I first posted here by lurking and a getting a feel for the place before commenting. That’s an overall policy I highly recommend, because it prevented me from making my own “The MRAs are crazy nuts!” post.
The regulars here have always been patient with new posters who kick things off with “MRAs are crazy nuts!” and have also been good about turning it into a teaching moment. Yet it seems like it’s turned into a endless chore, so I understand the frustration and the need for a stock statement.
A statement would also be beneficial because while the regulars do a good job of pointing out
how ableism can reinforce pervasive social bias and negative stereotypes associated with mental illness, a few posters have cast the problem as merely bad manners run amok. I flinch every time someone corrects ableist language by saying many people on the board are dealing with mental illness, so you need to be more “sensitive” in order to avoid hurting their feeling. This board isn’t populated by fragile flowers or the language police, just people with a low tolerance for shitty behavior.
The real problem with ableism is that equating bad ideas, failed logic, idiotic behavior and social bias with mental illness supports the idea that douche bags who commit fucked up, socially unacceptable and morally wrong acts and the mentally ill should both be judged, ridiculed and stigmatized in the same manner.
TL/DR
Statement about ableist language, especially regarding mental illness = good idea
OK, Dave, I got the “Suspicious Site” warning again, and this time I got a screenshot:
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/gyalakias/manthreat_zps1bcf312b.jpg
Seriously, have somebody look into this.
I’m going to have an all-about-me moment which I hope isn’t too obnoxious. Yesterday (?) I said something about how ableist language hurts me, others here, and a wider community, and I hope it didn’t come off like what Brooke is describing. What I meant is it causes measurable harm to the lives of disabled people. I apologize if it came out as “mind your Ps and Qs because of my precious precious feeeelings.”
/all-about-me moment.
“Harms” rather than “hurts” - exactly.
RE: Argenti
Oh and LBT’s Borg critters are up,
Hooray! Thanks Argenti! And I’ve got Critter #7 right here: Einstein the Rat!
RE: Shaun DarthBatman Day
WPS means that you will not be held criminally liable for anything you ever do. Examples include… George Zimmerman
Um. George Zimmerman is Hispanic.
@Viscaria
Actually I didn’t do the greatest job expressing myself, because there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being personally offended or hurt by people saying “MRAs are awful people, it’s like they are mentally ill.”
I was being critical of how a couple of non-regular posters (one in particular, but I’m not going to name names), responded to people describing MRAs as mentally ill in a way I thought trivialized the issue.
They seemed to be suggesting that new posters merely need to fall in line and learn to avoid saying certain words in order to appease the regulars. I don’t like it when people correct ableist language in a way that seems to patronize, rather empathize with, the people directly hurt by the language and also fails to ask people to examine the moral implications of what they say.
To me that takes humanity and social responsibility out of the equation, and reduces the idea of privilege to PC pantomime that meant to placate minorities (who in turn are portrayed as being hyper-sensitive and overly demanding).
Again, Viscaria, I don’t discount feelings like yours, in fact I hate when people dismiss the hurt they cause rather than own up to their own behavior. In my case, I can’t believe how flippant I’ve been with ableist language when I’ve personally dealt with mental illness since adolescence. I don’t need to act more polite, I need to do better.
Hopefully all this at least makes some sense.
Yay, the critters are amazing, LBT. I can’t wait to see the tiger.
***TW: rape, pedophilia, child abuse, rape apologia***
http://www.reddit.com/r/carlhprogramming/comments/1tbecr/alabama_man_raped_videotaped_his_son_with_other/ce6rnjt
So this guy who ran a reddit for programming raped his 9 year old son, sold him for sex with other men(who has stds), and filmed the sex and sold it as porn. From what I’ve heard, the people on this reddit were totally shocked, since he seemed like a good guy.
Well this one redditor is defending him. At least he’s got -130 votes and the people calling him out are all upvoted.
@auggziliary
If this creep bothered to read the article, he would have learned that the father wasn’t charged with Torture, it was the other defendant who was charged with Sexual Torture, which is a felony and is not “defined as psychological duress”.
If you check wistfulbreeze’s post history, his main hobby is making excuses and gaslighting in support of accused pedophiles, which is a hell of a way to use your free time.
@Brooked
All the relates. I have a persistent tendency, even now, to refer to myself as “crazy” in a derogatory fashion when I’m having a depressive episode or anxiety. It’s really hard to kick that particular habit because it’s so common.
@ Brooked
Yep. For the record, this is also why I’m not on board with the whole “well you have to be careful what you say here” thing. It frames the community here’s unwillingness to tolerate ableism, racism, and so on as being a matter of them being oversensitive, and the problem as being the words used rather than the ideas behind the words.
Auggz, this stuff is too horrifying for words. That child abuse TW applies to the below as well.
Only the worst kind of human would refer to prohibitions about child sexual abuse as “extremely disgusting to our society’s mores,” like it’s some arbitrary western idea that we should not do violence to children.
Abusing children is not a mistake. This man chose to inflict horrors on his own son.
Having an interesting hobby makes a person dynamic. Selling their child to pedophiles makes them a criminal.
This site is the one I’d say least fits the “you have to be careful what you say here” mould. That brings up places like Shakesville, which seems to have degenerated to an ego trip for the founder, where anything at all will get you banned, or to a lesser extent, Feministe, where they sometimes seem to take the sub-head about “defending the sanctimonious women’s studies set” far too seriously.
This place is for mocking misogyny, and we have a hell of a lot of fun with that and other stuff, and OT is on topic half the time. “Don’t use sexist/racist/trans*phobic/homophobic/ableist terms and don’t be an asshat about your religious/political beliefs” isn’t such a huge thing to ask, is it? Is it? It’s hardly the walking on eggshells some people seem to think.
@Brooked -
While you did not name names, am I correct in assuming that I am one of those “couple of” offenders that you mentioned?
@ Kittehs
Exactly, which is another reason that my patience with that attitude has run out. If that makes me a mean meanie, oh well.
I’m going to steal some of this discussion for when I get around to updating the welcome package, but I will link to this thread so people can see who said what.
@Cloudiah, there was quite a long discussion about the recent outbreak of ableism on the ‘As The Worms Turn’ thread as well, just in case that helps.
Seriously, I’m just tired of the ableism.
I’m aware that it’s really hard to kick the habit. I’m still working on it on meatspace, and I’ve caught myself using ableist phrases in my everyday thinking. But that’s because we don’t think about what we’re saying when we say that something is “insane” or that some idea is “crazy”. We’re not used to thinking about it, because in society, people with disabilities of any kind is demonized. And while things are slightly improving for people with physical disabilities, this is not the case with people with mental disabilities.
You wouldn’t call someone a [n-word] because black is bad and a black person should be ashamed. Why would you call an idea “insane” to express how terrible the idea is, when there’s better words for the same idea that doesn’t further stigmatize mental illness?
Well, that’s repulsive. Uuuuuggggghh.
And yeah, shit like this is why I feel like rape culture is something that extends to children of all genders. It’s like, no matter WHAT horrible thing you do to a child, SOMEONE will find some way to excuse it or pretend it never happened, all while analyzing exactly WHAT was done to the poor kid in this incredibly creepy invasive way.
Good on the Redditors for bringing the thumbs-down.
auggzilliary - *gags* The apologia is disgusting.
You’re welcome . Someone else helped me so we pay if forward .
If you need help just ask me .I was confused too. Even after I read the welcome package!
@Rahu
Actually no, you weren’t who I was referring to. In fact I had no idea why you would think that until I went back to ‘As the worms turn’ thread and reread your post about feeling overwhelmed by regulars “correcting” new posters. While I don’t agree with you, I thought it was a perfectly reasonable comment in which you expressed your opinion. I have no problem with that then or now.
In the end, I’m concerned that many of the regulars, who generally do a great job of politely correcting new posters, have reached their boiling point. I’m relatively new, but I do have a lot of affection for this board because the regulars here are quite funny, genuinely accepting and can discuss feminism without threads turning into Feministe-style sensitivity training death spirals.
Luckily it sounds like Cloudiah will ride to the rescue and put something in the welcome package so posters doesn’t have to play language cop every time a newbie drops an ableist stinker.
Me too. 0_o
If it helps at all, I feel totally willing and able to keep calling out the driveby-ers day and night. It’s what I come here for!
I’m willing to do it, I’m just unwilling to be super polite about it, especially with repeat offenders and/or people who whine about how haarrrddd it is not to get yelled at here.
Polite?
THIS
IS
MANBOOOOOOBZ
*kicks troll into Freudian pit filled with Georgia O’Keefe art*
Urgh, more of the sexual abuse trigger warning.
“after conviction, sex offenders have very low recidivism rates as compared to the general prison population.”
So much wrongness. I mean, unless we include like…drug possession and sex workers (who, I’ll note, are frequently not harming anyone) sex offenders have some of the highest recidivism rates.
And how is selling a child for sex not causing psychological distress? How is keeping a kid out of school worse than that?!
Double, double, toil and trouble
Fire burn and cauldron bubble
::cackles::
The newbies aren’t really the problem though, as annoying as newbie ableist comments are. It’s the people who’ve been asked to stop and decided not to, or the people who’ve been asked to stop who’ve turned that into a reason to drama llama.
Tangentially related to the “crazy” talk…I just realized I somehow twisted my bedding 90° while asleep. Now, I am notorious for making my sleeping quarters look like a micro tornado landed on the bed, but this is a new one by me. (My sleep, if it can be called such, is the land of insomnia and nightmares, like, I warned my pharm student before I first stayed over, woke up to “wow, you weren’t kidding!”)
But perfectly 90°?! I don’t exactly think my usual “you try my nightmares, see what you do to the bed” answers this one. Did someone let gremlins loose in my room?
Argenti - I’ve managed to get my top sheet twisted that badly (no nightmares, I just roll over a lot in bed) but not the bottom sheet! It just ends up a twisted mess in the middle of the bed, but not at right angles.
Cassandra - Yeah, the HOW DARE YOU INFRINGE ON MY FREEZE PEACH complainers are the real pains.
Speaking of drama llamas, I just found this pic. We’ve had a few of that kind …
http://i693.photobucket.com/albums/vv297/GothBoyUK/DramaLlama.jpg
My stance on sheets — fitted bottom sheet, no top sheet. Because I can manage to accidentally restrain myself in a twisted top sheet. (You know those smooth fuzzy hotel blankets? Do they have those there? I use one of those instead of a top sheet)
I nearly broke down today after someone insisted on calling me delusional, so I’m in an anti-ableism mood.
By the way I do think we should make a distinction with regards to ableism. I think that calling people r***** is different from calling them crazy. Both are bad, but the former is more like victimizing an actual group of people with down syndrome (similar to slurs about ethnicity I guess?), while the latter is more like a generic ableist comment not as immediately vile but still very problematic. If that makes sense?
I used to turn my sheets 90 degrees all the time when I was a kid, though it doesn’t happen much anymore. I think I would toss and turn and twist the sheets around, and then I would grab for the nearest corner to straighten them out; but if I had already rotated the sheets a little bit, the closest corner wasn’t the right one anymore.
Misery — I’m not sure I agree with your logic why we should make that distinction, but it does sorta make sense that calling people r*****s, etc, is really obviously wrong, whereas words like “crazy” are still widely used. The latter I can see as an honest mistake, the former not.
And I’m sorry some ass decided to be an ass and call you delusional.
Viscaria — particularly since it was far too hot in my room and I only had my hotel style blanket and one microfiber that gets stuck to it, that’s entirely possibly wtf I did. (Yeah, too hot in New England at Christmas, I blame the 90g~ of 78° water in my room. ALL THE FISH TANKS!)
Brooked, I think this “The real problem with ableism is that equating bad ideas, failed logic, idiotic behavior and social bias with mental illness supports the idea that douche bags who commit fucked up, socially unacceptable and morally wrong acts and the mentally ill should both be judged, ridiculed and stigmatized in the same manner” explains the problem perfectly.
This is what I got from the posters here. I didn’t think about those types of comments much before reading this blog. Now I’ve learned how such statements can do a lot of damage.
Argenti - we may have those blankets here, but I’ve never had to buy blankets so wouldn’t know.
LBT, he is “white” for a given value of white, and I know *I’ve* had enough “Zimmerman’s Hispanic so it wasn’t racially motivated and neither was the lack of conviction” to last me a lifetime. Let me leave it with this. If you can “pass” (like I can), then you are afforded white privilege (like I am). Zimmerman can “pass” regardless of geneology, therefore he is given white privilege. Hispanic is so broad a term as to be meaningless.
And I realise it is not that cut and dry, but the police refered to him as “white” throughout, which gave a huge bias right from the start.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/trayvon-martin-case-georg_n_1387711.html
@argenti
Thanks for the tip
@kitteh’s
I had an unbelievable blast in Aus!! Unfortunately Melbourne and Sydney were unseasonably cold and rainy when we were there, but the weather was gorgeous in the Gold Coast, and hot as hell in Perth (which was actually a welcome change all things considered :P)