Golbats for Equality

Yes, power is situational.  Some situations are temporary and some are permanent.  For example, societal antiblackness doesn’t just turn itself off, so white privilege, while still “situati...

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Dear followers: You may have noticed that we haven’t posted any new memes for about a week. We’d like to avoid leaving you in the dark by issuing an official hiatus. Maintaining a consisten...

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Equality Golbat: “Being pressured to accept your abusive parents because ‘that’s just Asian parents being strict’ is not a form of privilege.”

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Equality Golbat: “Being stereotyped as bad drivers, bad speakers, and abusive parents is not a form of privilege.”

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Equality Golbat: There shouldn’t be a compulsory pledge of allegiance to begin with. I’m fully aware that the US Pledge of Allegiance violates separation of church and state. It’s also ho...

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Equality Golbat: No one should be drafted, regardless of gender. Even if military drafts are an example of sexism harming men, no one should have to be drafted from the start. Military drafts r...

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Equality Golbat: Being annoyed with “political correctness”, instead of being hurt by people refusing to be respectful, is a privilege.

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Equality Golbat: A rewards-only approach can still be abusive. Reward actions that should be rewarded. Positive reinforcement helps kids remember things that can help them in the future. It’s...

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Equality Golbat: If you’d rather pay a doctor to “fix” your child because acceptance is hard work, did you forget it was hard work to get that money in the first place? One of things you...

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Your favorite children’s book is probably racist and sexist. Or, if it’s not, the author probably also wrote things for adults which will extremely disappoint you.  (Yes, this is mostly ab...

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Equality Golbat: The fact that mindfulness has accomplished anything disproves behaviorism. Mindfulness is essentially meta-thinking: thinking about your own thought process. That’s a very si...

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Equality Golbat: If you believe what and how people think is irrelevant to the human experience, why call yourself a psychologist? What it comes down to is this: people think differently. Peopl...

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Behaviorism: A school of psychology that focuses on forcibly training specific behaviors. Behaviorism is based on neurotypical, able-bodied behavior being the norm, and makes no attempts to be ...

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Abuse culture: A culture in which certain groups are treated as problems rather than people. Let’s not pretend that abuse is “only a family problem”. In every setting, in every aspect of ...

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If hate rhetoric conflates two categories, then the hate is about both categories and no amount of hairsplitting is going to change that. Or, it might even really just be about the actually not...

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Yes, not all Muslims are Arabs.  No, you can’t act like islamophobia isn’t a race issue. The rhetoric of islamophobia is heavily racialized and islamophobia is used primarily to excuse rac...

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Deadnaming: Referring to a trans person by a name they’ve retired. The term deadnaming comes from the fact that it’s often done to trans people who are dead. Typically their parents along w...

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Vaccines are easy mode for your immune system, not the nightmare mode version of “regular” pathogens. Actually, vaccines aren’t just easy mode, they’re literally the tutorial at the beg...

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If your immune system can fight off pathogens, imagine how easily it can deal with vaccines. Vaccines are weakened or dead germs.  They can’t fight back against your immune system the way no...

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