People need to think deeply about what the word solidarity actually means. This isn't some kind of transactional ranking system where one group or individual takes priority over others. This is a political and ethical dead end.

This is explained very well by @ilyas_nagdee and Azfar Shafi in their short but brilliant report for @TNInstitute. I keep sharing this but it's very timely for the current moment https://www.tni.org/en/antiracism 

As they explain, the kind of anti-racism we're seeing amongst many progressives is centred on individual experience and specific forms of discrimination, often obfuscating structural factors that affect many groups.

If this is anti-racism, it's a very neoliberal version of it.

That's not to say that specificity doesn't matter and we should flatten people's experiences into one homogenous lump.

But as Shafi & Nagdee argue, we need 'a project that
draws specificity out into universalism' - in other words solidarity following a common goal of liberation

‘Solidarity has to be organisation’

Liz Fekete of @IRR_News gives a beautiful description of what solidarity means - a cradle but also a fist that facilitates broad-based organising to defend communities.

This is the type of solidarity we need right now.