Re Chelsea Manning: I just saw a White woman on Twitter tell a Black woman justifiably distrusting Chelsea that if she spending time in jail isn’t enough for her to trust Chelsea again nothing will ever work. Please don’t do this, it’s not helping your cause any.
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It did come off a bit
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I wasn't talking about race. I was talking about disposability culture and the danger of jumping to a conclusion based only on the statements of white supremacists without a full story. If I missed a context in her tweet I apologize.
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She was talking about race though, about not immediately trusting White people for whatever reason they deem fit. Picking on her for something being “not good enough” to change her mind is missing her point.
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I didn't catch that. I had a lot of tweets coming at me. I probably should have paid better attention but still.
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Picking a fight isn't quite the precise sentiment I'm going for but how that's gonna look to a black woman probably isn't worth arguing over?
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It was two extremely civil replies.
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It’s a matter of content, not tone.
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Ok, that's fine. For the sake of this discussion, I am uneasy with the accusations of "arguing" and "pick a fight" combined with the erasure of my race, which is the perfect setup for the immediate disposability point I was trying to make.
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I apologise for getting your race wrong. I wanted to note that PoC are free to distrust White people for whatever reason they want - no White person is immune from being complicit in racism. This is not a matter of disposability. PoC don't owe anyone their trust.
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Of course. That is always true.
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To be clear, that discussion was a specific context about "earning chances." I agree with that position. But in agreeing it is useful to know what the line is.
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It may be useful to know, but often there isn't really a definite line. I know for me it's often very contextual, sometimes arcane, and even then it's "mmmm I'll still keep you at arm's length for a while".
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