So if my experience has been 99% of white people do things that perpetuate racial oppression, in big ways or small, I should shut up (7/x)
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Noahpinion
about that for fear of how more virulent racists might respond? I guess it's OK to make that argument but I wish ppl understood (8/x)
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the argument they're actually making when they say "stop saying all white ppl are racist even tho that's your experience of white ppl." 9/9
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Noahpinion
In my experience most of people making that argument - myself among them - do so for utilitarian reasons, not for erasure of experience.
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Replying to @kabulykos @Noahpinion
I know. A lot of you have good intentions. And addressing a diverse audience (conservative or just skeptical whites firmly included!) (1/x)
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Is really really hard! But liberals will have to learn to speak to diversity. The future of liberalism, if not America, depends on it.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Noahpinion
What's "speak to diversity" mean? I want white folks w/ a clue to talk to the clueless ones, because the clueless ones don't listen to us.
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Most trouble w/ the web is us getting confused about who's trying to talk to whom. Universal tolerance way easier than universal gestalt.
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Replying to @kabulykos @Noahpinion
Sure, but if you don't expect universal tolerance from your white friends, surely you don't expect it of POC who are actually oppressed?
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Noahpinion
It's not my friends, white or otherwise, I worry about. It's the unshaven white masses who're unlikely to befriend me.
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Ok but you get my point right? The language white liberals use to try to reach the unshaven white masses often alienates POC
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