Unless you are a person of color, you are a terrible racist. You can’t help it. You were a racist at birth and your entire life is structured around being a racist, especially if you deny being a racist. Those are the worst.
I don’t want to tip my hat with all the reasons why in one post. Frankly, that’d take too long and be flushed away into the ether too quickly. No, like your vile racism, this will be ongoing and painful excursion into how terrible you are for being born a flawed, degenerate, scheming whitey.
Environmental Racism/Environmental Justice
Just what is Environmental Racism? Let this privileged white academic oppressor, Daniel Faber (Editorial Board Member of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology, Fall 1988-present) hip you to it:
If you are a racist, you may be thinking:
“Well, there’s that whole ‘correlation is not causation’ thing, do companies pick predominantly black neighborhoods to locate industrial and manufacturing plants in because they want to poison/oppress minorities? Could it be that they need cheap land for large buildings near ports and means of mass transport, and cheap land means cheap housing, and poor people who live in cities tend to live in those areas?”
And you’re a racist. We learn from Wikipedia that:
Environmental racism refers to intentional or unintentional racial discrimination in the enforcement of environmental rules and regulations, the intentional or unintentional targeting of minority communities[1] for the siting of polluting industries, or the exclusion of minority groups from public and private boards, commissions, and regulatory bodies. The term was coined and defined by the former Reverend Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. [2] Environmental justice is the movement to reverse environmental racism.[3][4]
Intent has nothing to do with it. Your racism is like manslaughter, but EJ proponants just may refer to it as genocide. Why? Because you’re a RACIST, that’s why!
Actual documentary proof of Environmental Racism:
Don’t believe me? That’s okay, I’m white and therefore I am probably lying to you and committing genocide today. Trust an unbiased source: the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit
They’ve set forth the principals of the EJ movement… some are as follows:
I typed in the words "unicorn environmentalism wizard" into a google search. This was the second image that came up. The was only one other image on the page would have made any sense, but I think it was a unicorn fucking some dude, I decided not to look to hard.
1) Environmental Justice affirms the sacredness of Mother Earth, ecological unity and the interdependence of all species, and the right to be free from ecological destruction.
(what? are you fucking kidding me? What about planet unicorns or green wizards?)
6) Environmental Justice demands the cessation of the production of all toxins, hazardous wastes, and radioactive materials, and that all past and current producers be held strictly accountable to the people for detoxification and the containment at the point of production.
(okay, we’ll turn off the nuclear power plants now. We’ll continue to focus on more earthly fuels, like coal. Mother earth makes coal, she’d want us to use it – it’s GREEN! Oh wait… Uranium is natural too. Oh, and no more glow in the dark watch dials. How do we stop all that background radiation? Can we block out the stars at night, the sun at day? Oh, and stop most forms of modern medicine – radiation EVERYWHERE in hospitals. Shit, hospitals are so racist.)
7) Environmental Justice demands the right to participate as equal partners at every level of decision-making, including needs assessment, planning, implementation, enforcement and evaluation.
(to hell with this representative government. It doesn’t matter that Americans are largely ignorant about science, the middle school drop-out should have the same say on matters of science and policy as the scientists! It’s fair that way. Oh, and can we PLEASE put intelligent design to a vote so that whole issue can be resolved?!)
10) Environmental Justice considers governmental acts of environmental injustice a violation of international law, the Universal Declaration On Human Rights, and the United Nations Convention on Genocide.
(yeah, there’s that genocide reference – I’m very racist for not believing that the pollution from city busses is equal to the intentional wholesale murder of ethnic or religious groups. For this, I’m sorry.)
11) Environmental Justice must recognize a special legal and natural relationship of Native Peoples to the U.S. government through treaties, agreements, compacts, and covenants affirming sovereignty and self-determination.
(Unless you’re a Native Peoples, you’re not that natural. It’s a fact.)
12) Environmental Justice affirms the need for urban and rural ecological policies to clean up and rebuild our cities and rural areas in balance with nature, honoring the cultural integrity of all our communities, and provided fair access for all to the full range of resources.
(I’m trying to get my head around what would entail “rebuild(ing) our cities and rural areas in balance with nature”. This is very vague, but I’d imagine once we got rid of all radiation, things would revert quite quickly to a more “natural state”. I understand “cultural integrity of all our communities”. Neighborhoods of color need to be protected from interlopers of non-color, or other colors?? Anyway, keep the Chinese in their neighborhood, the blacks in theirs, the hispanics in theirs. You racist whites are segregationists, the people of color merely want to retain the cultural integrity of our communities. There’s a difference, racist!)
13) Environmental Justice calls for the strict enforcement of principles of informed consent, and a halt to the testing of experimental reproductive and medical procedures and vaccinations on people of color.
(Don’t test your white devil medicines on people of color. Your white science can stay in your white communities, people of color don’t need it.)
14) Environmental Justice opposes the destructive operations of multi-national corporations.
(Okay… here’s where it gets tricky. We’re one-world AND one-people. We are different, and white people are bad. We want open borders because no human is illegal, but not to big companies, they need to not cross the borders because then they’re a multi-national. Having people of different nations working together in a company is bad, if that company makes a profit of any kind. So, in summery…. oh fuck it… this is retarded socialist bullshit… seriously. Fuck these assholes. )
15) Environmental Justice opposes military occupation, repression and exploitation of lands, peoples and cultures, and other life forms.
(come the fuck on… okay… fine, get American troops out of all other countries. Bring ‘em home. I’m fine with that. When there is a REAL genocide, as ACTUALLY occurs where people are murdered by the hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions… we’ll just watch on TV. That’ll allow foriegn news agencies to make some cash selling their footage of machete wielding tribal warlords, religious nuts blowing each other up with bombs up their ass, and general mayhem on people who live in agrarian levels of civilization to US news agencies.)
17) Environmental Justice requires that we, as individuals, make personal and consumer choices to consume as little of Mother Earth’s resources and to produce as little waste as possible; and make the conscious decision to challenge and reprioritize our lifestyles to insure the health of the natural world for present and future generations.
(That’s fine. Please start doing that yourselves. Unless you’re like PETA, who kills animals by the hundreds, Al Gore, who uses as much electricity as 28 million Ugandans… or… augh…. I’m done…)
In conclusion:
What is the social impact of framing every argument you make one of “people of color” vs. white people?
What does it do when you use caricatures of white men that would make Julius Streicher proud?
What happens when, during the economic and political rise of “people of color”, your local slumlord is black. The CEO of the company that’s dumping toxic waste is Hispanic, the race riots become more and more “people of color” vs. “people of color”?
Could it be that “Social Justice” and “Environmental Justice” groups are advocating a racist worldview?
And a digression:
Ahh mass transit… multi-cultural and socialist utopia on wheels… they get subsidized by the government because they’re unprofitable. That means that if you have a job and pay taxes, you’re paying twice (three times if you count actually having to ride in them as a form of punishment)! If you don’t use it by walking, riding a bike or driving, you’re being punished only once. You’re almost stealing from the poor!
Below is a google search that will show a trend of places around the world who feel that shit gets so bad they’ve got to give women their own buses to save them from predation:
http://www.google.com/search?q=women+only+busses
Oh, and the wikipedia page for Women-only Passenger Car had this great line in it:
“Women-only cars have received positive reaction from some men and some women. Women cited safety from gropers, as well as not having to tolerate various smells.“
Luckily it’s women talking about men, so it’s not racist or sexist.
This brings me to one last rhetorical question:
Would Rosa Parks ride a women-only bus?
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- 3 days of racism in the news….
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