Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #tweetingtoohard
Most recents (1)
This is an important illustration of the journey for white people. It's easy to assume that code switching is about speaking "properly". It's harder to internalize that it's really about a forced deference to your Whiteness.
Right. It hits different when you are the target. However that doesn't mean that you're being oppressed. It means you are being forced out of the limited view of reality that has been meticulously constructed for you.
That's what I mean when I say you don't have the range. Until you get dragged out of that limited bubble, you can't see the multitudes around you. You can't start to build better judgment about what is real harm and what is not. You're still working with the kindergarten rulebook
