I just think white progressives should value people of color’s joy. DREAMers and activists are exhaling for the first time in years. Families from Muslim ban countries are elated to reunite, but the most privileged white progressives are yelling over that to say why it’s bad.

We all know it could be better. It could be more fair, but the point is to celebrate and champion progress. There is just a blindness to the privilege of not being affected by any of these massive executive actions and it’s embarrassing.

You should be ashamed to say nothing is different now to a person who thought they might get deported in the middle of a pandemic if they went to a hospital just one week ago. Use your privilege to lift people up, not to dictate how any of us should feel.

We ALL know things could be better. That will always be the case. It’s not settling to appreciate any forward movement at all. What you see as your deeper moral conviction is appearing to be a disaffected condescension. People who are happy had the most at stake.

(Notice how I never said “be complacent and stop fighting” but all the numb nuts who still don’t get it keep imputing that shit)