The Dutch “pillars of racism”
(Image via) Tomorrow is the “arrival of Sinterklaas” in The Netherlands and Belgium. The arrival marks the beginning of the festive season that ends with …
This week’s episode of Arrow slashed me
I love Arrow. It’s probably my favorite show this season. Between the comic book references with all the DC universe cross overs, the hilariously dramatic …
Feminist imagination and daring to dream: bell hooks and Melissa Harris Perry
On Saturday morning I watched the conversation between bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry. I sat there and, half way through, I realized I was seeing …
Yay! Permission from a white cis dude not to identify as a feminist!
Ah, gotta love Jezebel’s consistency here. Less than a week ago, they published “The Many Misguided Reasons Famous Ladies Say I’m Not a Feminist”. They …
Flavia, it’s reductive to blame oppressive structures within other cultures entirely on colonizers. The caste system? We had these problems before the whites came. We had these problems before the Mughals came. Frankly, it’s insulting to lay the blame entirely on whites — it absolves US of OUR responsibility for the crimes of caste. All we’re saying is that whites aren’t responsible for every problem in the world, which is pretty much what you said in your OP.
I’ve never written a single word about the caste system in India. I simply said colonialism exacerbated a great deal of issues between different minorities …