Chad+T’s+2017+OpEd+Article

I am so angry about so many things. this art of mucking has really helped me unearth so many of the worldly inequalities that fill my thoughts and overbear all my cerebral abilities. the list continues of environmental liquidation, misogyny, chauvinism, …….. and i guess there is one thing i can muck about that satisfies all my endless exasperation---> YOU’RE NOT SPECIAL.

White privilege is bullshit!!!! What is that crap about??!? I see these white people on twitter and Instagram, praising their beloved “‘merica” thinking that their racist, oppressive asses make this damn globe spin. What figure in their life growing up allowed these ignorant, waste of space, compromises of humanity, to actually believe that their life and that their existence is more important than others just by the color of their skin. It’s almost as if… white people want to be oppressed just so they can have an excuse to whine about there fear of this preposterous stigma. This goes hand in hand with people who actually believe that reverse racism is real. wtf?!?!?!?from early moments of Indian oppression such as the Trail of Tears, to the recent election of a president who is concentrate all his efforts of riding this country of muslims, undocumented immigrants, and people who crave the abilities to survive, because of his fear of skin color. There is no moment in history that we as students have learned of a situation where whites are being deported, where whites were neglected, where whites were oppressed. (excluding women, and the situations who’s magnitude does not compare to racism today).

To all people who's mommy told them that they're special: you're not. You're life literally means nothing to the universe. you need the earth, but the earth sure as hell does not need you. gravity is a force that may not be able to weigh your fat head down, but it will still exist when you dont. level yourself. just like racism, there is another population of **living** beings on this planet that receive even less consideration than people of color. Animals are being oppressed more than humans are!!! Let me just start off by admitting how biased i am on this front. I don't eat animals, i save spiders from my and my friends houses, i cry every time i drive by roadkill on foothill, and I am devastated when i accidentally step on a snail when it rains. Im not afraid to say that my passion for the rights of animals and their ecosystems outweigh my advocations for the rights of any human. I say with pride that I value animal life more than i value the lives of most marginalized people. Am I wrong to do so? yes the lives of blacks, Syrians, homosexuals, and many other humans are at risk and are being abused, but they get plenty of attention. In no way at all am I generalizing human oppression at all, and in no way am I trying to make it seam that these lives are not important. What I am saying is that the number of animal lives ended by humans is utterly deplorable and infuriates me so much and don't have words to describe how it makes me feel. There are about 475,000 human deaths a year caused by humans. Huge. There are about 46 billion animals deaths a year caused by humans, making humans murder a mere .00000848214% of total annual life loss. what the fuck has to happen to make this clear to people that animals are more oppressed than people!?!? granted there are sick disgusting people in this world that believe that these innocent lives don’t matter, but Jesus christ this is so devastating. there are a lot of reasons why i should be embarrassed to be a member of the human race, but this hits it home. I'm so overwhelmed at these numbers. Call to action?: where your own god damn skin!

People really need to get it through their heads that you aren't special. You will live and you will die, and the world will keep spinning, the sun will keep shining, but sadly, humans will keep killing. It has been implanted in people’s minds that it is ok to wreck our planet. That it is ok to damage other’s lives.I don’t really know what to say at this point, because I am getting worked up. Let your happiness be independent and absent of detrimental effects on others. Oppression is a white man’s game, and I refuse to play.