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.
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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Oh for sure. And I'm just talking about a chance for the benefit of the doubt, like, "wow this looks weird but given her record maybe there's something else afoot." Ofc that's not owed but I didn't offer that premise either.
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