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The amount of people attempting to shame and gaslight @mikemchargue for being so bluntly anti-genocide is certainly... something.
Dear white progressive men: if deconstruction for you is mainly about no one being allowed to “tell you what to do” anymore? You missed the point.
Dear white progressive men: if deconstruction for you is mainly about no one being allowed to “tell you what to do” anymore? You missed the point.
Honestly I think this is the problem plaguing so many deconstruction communities. Too many white men saw deconstruction as a way to throw off the confines of the “rules” & “judgement” of evangelicalism - not as a way to examine their own culpability in toxic systems of injustice
Deconstruction was a pathway to MORE power and privilege for them, by throwing off any accountability to larger systems of authority.
They wanted to “deconstruct” without ever having to decolonize.
They wanted to “deconstruct” without ever having to decolonize.
That’s why so many online groups for deconstruction devolve into ugliness when white progressive men get angry for marginalized people for speaking up about harmful words/behaviors/beliefs. They believe “deconstruction” means a shield from anyone being allowed to judge ANYTHING.
“You’re the same as them!” they cry. “It’s all fundamentalism and judgement just under a new name/with new rules.”
“How can you preach tolerance and acceptance and then not show ME tolerance for my (super toxic and harmful to marginalize people in the space) viewpoints, huh?”
“How can you preach tolerance and acceptance and then not show ME tolerance for my (super toxic and harmful to marginalize people in the space) viewpoints, huh?”
If you aren’t willing to identify and address your own culpability in the toxic systems you just left, there isn’t ever going to be any true “progress” in progressive spaces.
Deconstruction CANNOT be divorced from decolonization.
Deconstruction CANNOT be divorced from decolonization.
Deconstruction is NOT about creating a magic liability shield for yourself.
If your deconstruction isn’t about recentering the marginalized, and owning up to both our privilege AND our culpability in the systems we left?
You aren’t actually as progressive as you think you are.
If your deconstruction isn’t about recentering the marginalized, and owning up to both our privilege AND our culpability in the systems we left?
You aren’t actually as progressive as you think you are.
