"Check your privilege" is a toxic lose-lose idea. "Share your privilege" is win-win. Personal diversity nepotism works in my experience.
@uriahz @andknf because it holds up, obscures and stalls real efforts at change.
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@uriahz @andknf like all regulation, it stifles innovation and change through competition. Let 100 expt methods to fight racism bloom.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@vgr @andknf I don't think it slows change any more than everybody hating on white supremacists has. Social exclusion is quite effective. -
@uriahz @andknf I have seen real, sincere conversational attempts get derailed by self-appointed thought police pouncing. So yes it does.
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@vgr @andknf More to the point, it's one of the tactics that's preferred by the people being marginalized and not your job to criticise. -
@uriahz there you go. You just used thought policing on me, inspiring me to disengage right now as in a previous convo few months ago.
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