#WhitePrivilege is not just about being in a "favoured state, whether earned or conferred by birth or luck." It is about power & dominance.
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It's not that NDT is beyond reproach, no one is, it's that anti-Black dynamics matter as well as what's expected of Black people in science.
Moreover, #NDTMeetScienceTwitter is yet another example where White "allies" deploy their Whiteness, just like SciMarch. #marginsci
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1/2 Includes the same White women & men who say they are "intersectional feminists"* but are relishing opportunity to promote themselves
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2/2 and gleefully skewering a Black scientist under cloak of
#scicomm. White people jump on any opportunity to capitalise on racism. STOP. -
*Also White people can't annoint themselves "intersectional feminists" -intersectionality is not an excuse for White women to ignore race.
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#NDTMeetScienceTwitter is functioning very differently than#BillMeetScienceTwitter & has different race dynamics. This is troubling. -
Asking a White male personality for attention & recognition is very different than demanding professional Black male scientist for the same
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Black scientists have to overcome systemic barriers in education & in life to get a PhD. More service is asked of them on equity & diversity
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1/2 Black scientists have at least twice the emotional labour: mentoring Black junior scholars above their usual supervision workload...
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2/2 ...And the emotional "
#POC of colour tax" of having to educate White people on racism at the same time as dealing with racism in life. -
1/2 Black men *should* give back; & they have relatively* less to deal with than Black women & femmes & other Black gender minorities.
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2/2 *Relatively less meaning cisgender Black men to other Black people NOT White women: that's where this NDT tag has gone very wrong.
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Black men have male privilege; but White women who think WW are most disadvantaged are deploying
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Finally, I see some
#POC using the#NDTMeetScienceTwitter tag. Please stop modelling yourselves on White people's sci interests &#scicomm. -
You don't have to like NDT to see how
#NDTMeetScienceTwitter feeds#WhitePrivilege & anti-Blackness by sheer ignorace of what he said. -
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#SciComm has many probs with equity & diversity; chiefly White scientists are only aware of, & care for, other White scis. -
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#WhitePrivilege & how it confers dominance whether you're consciously benefiting or not. What will you do about it? - 1 more reply
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