The Silence of Our Friends
Feb. 26th, 2019 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingI guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm tired of basic, bog-standard white supremacy coloring everything I'm interested in or care about. It's boring and stupid and irrational and unnecessary, and the tools that can limit its influence are so simple and accessible that it's offensive when people forget to use them.
The topic of race as it applies to vectors of privilege and discrimination is extremely complicated. The social, cultural, economic, political systems that influence these vectors are deeply embedded and not always obvious. These issues can and must be viewed through an intersectional lens and approached from multiple directions. A multiplicity of voices is an absolute necessity in order to have useful and productive conversations.
This is why it makes me furious when people are excluded from or shut out of these conversations. I know this seems like an obvious thing to say, but what I keep seeing, over and over and over again, are diverse voices being left out of conversations about diversity, and it drives me crazy.
The topic of race as it applies to vectors of privilege and discrimination is extremely complicated. The social, cultural, economic, political systems that influence these vectors are deeply embedded and not always obvious. These issues can and must be viewed through an intersectional lens and approached from multiple directions. A multiplicity of voices is an absolute necessity in order to have useful and productive conversations.
This is why it makes me furious when people are excluded from or shut out of these conversations. I know this seems like an obvious thing to say, but what I keep seeing, over and over and over again, are diverse voices being left out of conversations about diversity, and it drives me crazy.
