“The way people higher up our social hierarchies are reliably listened to over those lower down these unjust rankings is itself a major injustice. And it’s a pernicious everyday fact of life under oppressive systems like patriarchy and white supremacy. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to respond to the situation as a more privileged person. The right way involves speaking up when others who are less privileged won’t be heeded in the same way, and then using your power and privilege to amplify the voices of the marginalized folks who’ve long been shouting into the void. A wrong way is speaking over those who are better positioned to understand the issues due to their lived experience. But there’s another wrong way too: maintaining a scrupulous silence.”
“When powerful and privileged white people speak in defense of Black and brown people subject to state violence and colonization and genocide, there’s often a long overdue moment of reckoning.”
Of course the white progressiveness still has white hubris even when trying to do something good: they have to be reminded of that every time, with extreme prejudice even.
I doubt that time is in Lemmy’s side – the Epstein class’s brainworms have proven to be self sustaining enough to trigger episodes like piefed and tesseract’s attempts to suppress leftist content so it’s only a matters of time until something sticks – presuming that it hasn’t already happened.
“The way people higher up our social hierarchies are reliably listened to over those lower down these unjust rankings is itself a major injustice. And it’s a pernicious everyday fact of life under oppressive systems like patriarchy and white supremacy. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to respond to the situation as a more privileged person. The right way involves speaking up when others who are less privileged won’t be heeded in the same way, and then using your power and privilege to amplify the voices of the marginalized folks who’ve long been shouting into the void. A wrong way is speaking over those who are better positioned to understand the issues due to their lived experience. But there’s another wrong way too: maintaining a scrupulous silence.”
“When powerful and privileged white people speak in defense of Black and brown people subject to state violence and colonization and genocide, there’s often a long overdue moment of reckoning.”
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Of course the white progressiveness still has white hubris even when trying to do something good: they have to be reminded of that every time, with extreme prejudice even.
White people continuing to not recognize their privilege. A tale as old as time.
On Lemmy.ml even 😔
Give it some time. More reasonable voices may pop in here :)
I doubt that time is in Lemmy’s side – the Epstein class’s brainworms have proven to be self sustaining enough to trigger episodes like piefed and tesseract’s attempts to suppress leftist content so it’s only a matters of time until something sticks – presuming that it hasn’t already happened.
I’ve found a good number of people who participate here are quite reasonable and lovely.