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Have been thinking lately about the ways in which we white women take up space. Everybody says, “Don’t be a Karen,” which is true! But I think the question we really need to be examining in ourselves as white women is, “Do I have Karen *potential*?”
2/ I think it’s a default (an erroneous one) for white people esp to assume in community spaces that there is room for everyone to speak. It’s easy for ww in particular to just talk/offer opinions & believe that they’re doing so out of goodness & all the while taking up space.
3/ I know many white women who are lovely and liberal and would also turn nasty in a moment when backed into a corner. At what point does your/our anger cease being justified and instead become an exercise in privilege?
4/ At what point do you stop intereogating your own whiteness and the privileges that that might afford you in being angry and just let your anger carry you away? So many “good intentions” and so much toxicity rising out of them. Please, let’s all try to be better.
5/ No one is perfect. I struggle with this too—when to talk and when to let others do the talking, when to listen and whether rage, in a given moment, is useful or is in fact overshadowing someone else. But it’s a struggle and an interrogation that has to keep going, every day.
