they may never change, but if you confront them, they have to decide whether popping off is worth the added effort of thumping with you
I keep thinking abt what @DrPhilGoff said: confronting racist fam isn't abt converting them, it's abt changing the norms at the dinner tablehttps://twitter.com/HoltMLackey/status/898747224988950532 …
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and your audience is less your uncle than your young nieces/nephews, who might see that pushback and grow to reasonably expect it elsewhere
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I still remember the day this happened in my extended family. Behavior can be changed pretty fast even if minds can't.
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The person who is the target of the terror is saying what they need, but your ideas are better?pic.twitter.com/Uy3z2Eh1T4
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Like that feels like despite being a gay disabled female because I am white and I ooze privilege no matter what I do BC I was born w it.
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Agreed. Best way to engage, I think, is through civil society by addressing behaviors and norms. Not directly as in "stop being racist!"
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You are still siding with the oppressor.
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I am sorry you feel that way, I assumed this was an open discussion I didn't realize I was not welcome whatsoever. Have a great day
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Hahahahahaha white people never cease to amaze. She's trying to say her former complicity makes her entitled to speak on black folks' needspic.twitter.com/MAvDs2O6ar
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I never said I was entitled to speak that way, apologies. Have a good day. I am simply saying that my fellow white people need to do more
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