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[quote=Anonymous]It says so much that people are focusing so much on a female individual's tone when there are white men on the forum saying things that are overtly racist.

I quit going to All Souls because of precisely this. When women step out of line, they are tone policed and shamed. But when men in the congregation are obnoxious, sexist, racist, sexually harassing, women are told over and over and over that we have to be nice because "maybe he's autistic."

Meanwhile, women in the community who are actually autistic (who never use their diagnosis as an excuse - the woman you are talking about is a POC who is on the spectrum so maybe chill) receive the sorts of commentary seen above. Similar criticism is hurled at anyone who is gender nonconforming who dares to be critical of church leadership, or the lack of it on trans issues. But cis white men can do no wrong.

The women you think have advanced the conversation around race are only able to take that approach because one person is standing up to take all the heat. I'm one of the people making the commentaries that you think are thoughtful and I'm able to do so because the facts have been presented so consistently across a period of several weeks by the only person at All Souls with the tenacity to read every post on that page.

I don't have the energy to go back-and-forth with these people. Her commentary draws them out of the woodwork so effectively that you all are here bashing her anonymously because you know how you'll look if you take it up with her in public. If you have an issue with her go take it up with her. She has engaged with every single person who has criticized her on Facebook. [/quote]

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