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I think white Irish people on here, that we need to really address is why a lot of us immediately assume that when a Black or non-Black person of colour has feedback,criticism,upset, disagreement, advice, recommendations, that there is a swift response to assume malicious intent.
We see it all the time. Particularly people many regard as community organisers. Who many might put in the sounder category on here.
When someone from a marginalised community adds to their convo, critiques it, disagrees, there is a swell of “Just making trouble” labels thrown.
When someone from a marginalised community adds to their convo, critiques it, disagrees, there is a swell of “Just making trouble” labels thrown.
Then all the fans of the well known twitter sounder come roaring through & straight up harassing the person who dared critique their (problematic) fave. It gets so nasty and absolutely no work progresses. No learning happens and it facilitates abuse of marginalised people.
White supremacy isn’t just blatant actions like we’ve seen in Washington or the goon platoon under Gemmoid. It’s also in daily accepted prejudices and assumptions and it’s a real problem. It’s our problem.
I understand that a lot of the context is deeply personal for lots of people. There’s pain here& trauma. In saying that, none of our trauma is a license to discriminate or double down in prejudice. No matter how vulnerable we are feeling. That’s our 
to deal with. Not this 
to deal with. Not this
This isn’t just down to the activism/organising community, this is RIFE through our media. BIPOC in particular getting haughty-you-fool type responses or accused of trouble making,from white editors, & white allies getting “you’ve misunderstood
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There is an immediate belief of nefarious motives from white Irish people when challenged by Black people & people of colour here. Solidarity abandoned, friendship rescinded. The worst of humanity assumed. What are we going to do about that?
B/c it’s a load of fragile bullshit.
B/c it’s a load of fragile bullshit.
I think it’s Whiteness. We are taught we are the default, we can’t be missing experiences b/c our experience is the experience. Right? (Wrong) When challenged we don’t know what the hell to do with the discomfort we feel. So we dig in to old prejudices we don’t remember learning.
Can we collectively stop holding people outside of ourselves responsible for our discomfort? Can we stop demonising people who’s identities we can’t imagine? And can we stop prioritising my sound mutual relationship over anti-racism? Community aid? Disassembling white supremacy?
Anybody on here that is impacted by exactly what I’m talking about, I thought tagging you might make you targets so I haven’t. Sending you big love. And a commitment to never blaming you for my discomfort with what we may come across. I appreciate the fuck out of your voices 
. . @barnor_hesse created this great info graphic.
It helped me identify where I’m at (I think) and reinforced where I want to be. One for the bookmarks for sure. I’m sure there will be knee jerk reactions to it from my white peers, bookmark and keep going back to it anyway. https://twitter.com/theslowfactory/status/1347603533525381127
It helped me identify where I’m at (I think) and reinforced where I want to be. One for the bookmarks for sure. I’m sure there will be knee jerk reactions to it from my white peers, bookmark and keep going back to it anyway. https://twitter.com/theslowfactory/status/1347603533525381127
