Not "alienating" people from supporting our rights

[sparkindarkness]

It’s happened again. Well it’s never stopped happening. Tumblr, where common sense goes to die and fail goes to breed and thrive, had a rather reasonable post on what counts as allydom and what counts as the actions of a decent human being. And of course, we had a string of allies saying how “meaaaan” they were and they’re alienating people etc etc

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[sparkindarkness]

Thankee

[sparkindarkness]

Yes yes and yes.

Play nice just replaces one prejudice narrative with another - we're still the non-human, the lesser, who needs to earn more

[mrmeval]

"Equality is not a gift to be given, it is a debt that is owed

[sparkindarkness]

I would be surprised if any Equality movement could achieve it's ends without support from the privileged majority

[mrmeval]

Agreed, the law is not the end and it's not even the civil rights laws that have the most power long term

[neurotic_rat]

All of THAT. *points up*

There is a limit to playing 'nice' when it comes to people showing their hatred and bigotry. It only works so long, before you know that they're not really respecting you at all, and it's when, I think, the gloves should come off.

[sparkindarkness]

Thankee

At some point you need to stop playing nice because being nice dismisses the severity of their actions