Must any interpretation necessarily be a defense? I can understand, even empathise with ppl who've harmed me w/o letting them off hook
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Replying to @ADMedievalist @SLevelt
So why are you deciding that you get to dictate how ppl should empathize or not. Here is the thing, it's not as if you have spent much
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @SLevelt
I decided nothing. I offered. It is up to others whether to accept, how/if to process.
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Replying to @ADMedievalist @SLevelt
Am part of a racist panel or I am hurt because systematic racism is violence in my life.
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @SLevelt
My whiteness does not keep systemic racism from impinging upon my daily life. I have a family.
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Replying to @ADMedievalist @SLevelt
Do not do the "I have a friend/family", also are they academics? B/c you seem unable to understand that academics participate in racism
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @SLevelt
I did not realize you were limiting the discussion to academia. I was referring to RL vs the Digital Ink I don't spend.
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But no, they are not academics, although my nephew may be one day. They are just the sort of ppl who get shot by police and deported
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Replying to @ADMedievalist @SLevelt
Then why do you seem unable to understand the white fragility/defensiveness 101? Why are white feelings intentions more important?
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @SLevelt
I don't consider them *more* important. But for me to engage in a meaningful dialog, it helps to know other's POV. Even if I end up 1/
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And that is your privilege. Do not decide the rest of the MOCs in this field have to center whiteness. We do not. And really, you have not
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