“How do you know that I’m not reading black poetry?” she asked in an interview Because you got defensive about the question and instead of getting defensive by naming either of the two black poets anyone knows, Lanston Hughes or Maya Angelou.
To be serious though, it's quite telling that "please listen to minority voices" became a personal attack on her ethics in this woman's mind. Being open to "learning more about the struggles of other" includes being responsive and open when they say they're not being heard or, hell, realizing that if you do the thing, then the post wasn't for or about you, and it's unnecessary to get in your feelings.
In response, a New Jersey woman wrote: “I’m starting to feel not very welcome in this endeavor.” lmao. comfort is the enemy of resistance.
"Look, I know you're facing unimaginable hardship carried through centuries of systemic oppression that permeates every aspect of society - or I at least have some abstract idea that artfully evades placing any of the responsibility on myself or any of the other Good Whites™ - but pointing out all the ways I directly and indirectly benefit from those systems and how I'm oftentimes eagerly complicit in them to achieve my own ends is just mean!"
These ladies are about three huffy breaths, folded arms, and a foot stamp away from "you wouldn't even have any rights if it wasn't for us!"
How hard is it to Google what "check your privilege" means? It's not a new phrase. It's hard to start at square one when you feel like you don't know anything (I'm assuming they know about the existence of slavery and therefore don't actually know nothing), but if you care, you just...pick someplace and start learning. They need to stop with this fake helplessness.
edited bc I accidentally deleted half of my comment, oops
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lmao maybe cause if you were you might see woc's point and wouldn't be so defensive hmmmmm?
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Because you got defensive about the question and instead of getting defensive by naming either of the two black poets anyone knows, Lanston Hughes or Maya Angelou.
To be serious though, it's quite telling that "please listen to minority voices" became a personal attack on her ethics in this woman's mind. Being open to "learning more about the struggles of other" includes being responsive and open when they say they're not being heard or, hell, realizing that if you do the thing, then the post wasn't for or about you, and it's unnecessary to get in your feelings.
In response, a New Jersey woman wrote: “I’m starting to feel not very welcome in this endeavor.”
lmao. comfort is the enemy of resistance.
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I want to be one of those WOC that can be calm and quirky and educate people but my god I just don't have the patience 90% of the time
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"Look, I know you're facing unimaginable hardship carried through centuries of systemic oppression that permeates every aspect of society - or I at least have some abstract idea that artfully evades placing any of the responsibility on myself or any of the other Good Whites™ - but pointing out all the ways I directly and indirectly benefit from those systems and how I'm oftentimes eagerly complicit in them to achieve my own ends is just mean!"
These ladies are about three huffy breaths, folded arms, and a foot stamp away from "you wouldn't even have any rights if it wasn't for us!"
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edited bc I accidentally deleted half of my comment, oops
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