White Privilege
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- we applaud grand gestures but again, making ourselves visible like that is a *choice*, a clothed BIPOC showing up is assuming monumental risk that goes unpraised - white, eurocentric beauty standards are always valued & I can see why ppl wouldn't feel represented by one /2
Is the takeaway to be aware of and praise BIPOC for their less-dramatic-but-high-risk contributions? That makes sense This protester did what they did with the body they have, and I think there should be a way to applaud that. This was not an empty gesture. That was a scary line
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The fact that this person could more easily get away with this than a person with a different body is a good reason for them to do it. It's why white people go to the front: not because optics but because it's a way to use that privilege in a way that helps people
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Sort of! That's acting as a group, not as an individual. That is listening to repeated directives. It's convenient that this de-escalated a run in but we have to be willing to accept "the hard way," despite the risk to more white people especially, may well be the better way.
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I can't say what's most important but evaluating how we uplift Black voices & decenter white ones is a big piece. Most cases like this are done in good faith but was this asked? What seems like the best use of our privilege might be overinformed by that same privilege.
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