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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the gist behind this post is that there's a sudden influx of white folks who want to virtue signal about how amazingly woke they are and the response is that this is not primarily about your and your newfound feelings of white guilt. If you want to help, great, but don't take over and this is not an opportunity to post on FB about how anti-racist you are. Black people need to make their voices heard first and foremost. White people, we are the back up singers.

I also think that people are responding from the tone of "do this," because white people are not used to be told what to do, get in line, you're not the center of attention, what you have to say isn't automatically the most important, most brlliant and most necessary.  Examine your feelings of anger around that.

related memeory:

I was on a panel that was discussing privilege and racial and sexual harassment in the context of our specific profession last year. We were all supposed to do a 90 second-2 minute intro. The one white male on the panel talked at least 10 minutes instead of 2...about how much he was doing for racial/gender equality, his realizations around his privilege, coming to terms with his privilege...all the while demonstrating it. The rest of us on the panel--women, poc--just looked at each other. It was for him, clearly, a performance. [/quote]

I dunno, I guess people are feeling exactly how a ln ordinary black person might feel if someone told them "you can come to this potentially dangerous event, but if any rando white person commands you to do something, you must obey."

Problem with all sorts of crazy activist types is that they're all so militant.  It's impossible to say "oops, I think item #4 was worded poorly, sorry about that."

Nope gotta double down every time.  Just like Trump, actually.  You and him were made for each other and together you're wreaking havoc on this country.
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