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Some basic facts many apparently don't realize:
1. Everyone. Always. Projects their bias. Even to seemingly 'new ideas', the very description of the new idea has to follow a recognizable pattern to be accepted.
It why is that to speakers English of natively this weird sounds.
1. Everyone. Always. Projects their bias. Even to seemingly 'new ideas', the very description of the new idea has to follow a recognizable pattern to be accepted.
It why is that to speakers English of natively this weird sounds.
2. Denying a hierarchy of trauma, and denying trauma, are not the same thing.
3. Naming a school of thought after a person who didn't invent it erases the people who did that work before the person named or without their assistance (or sometimes even being aware they existed).
3. Naming a school of thought after a person who didn't invent it erases the people who did that work before the person named or without their assistance (or sometimes even being aware they existed).
4. Combining these basic truths means any conversation about harm reduction must acknowledge even the words themselves can contain oppressive and manipulative concepts which compound rather than alleviate harm. One can perpetuate harm in the act of attempting to reduce it.
5. The key then, to avoiding harm magnification in the act of attempting harm reduction, is fairly straightforward: ask the person being harmed what they need. And when the answer they give isn't what you expected (or wanted them to say), don't correct them.
6. If you still insist on correcting them, recognize they will most likely still accept your help, and then immediately twist that help into a form compatible with their original needs.
The key word in "Mutual Aid" is not "Aid".
#MutualAid
#Communists
#Anarchist
The key word in "Mutual Aid" is not "Aid".
#MutualAid
#Communists
#Anarchist
