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Gave a talk in Olympia last night re: white supremacy & white folks' role addressing it. Made the 'mistake' of referencing men/women w/regard to some data. So a white person decided their best use of Q&A was to critique me for reinforcing gender binaries. Nice 2b white isn't it?
I absolutely get the validity of breaking those binaries but it is not my fault the government doesn't report that data, and the person critiquing me doesn't have it either, and it is absurd to make that your comeback to an hour talk about white antiracist solidarity FFS
...this is just one of those things white folks do when they'd rather draw attention to their own issue rather than address their complicity in white supremacy...
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Sadly this is true. But then the same can be said of Bernie’s hardcore too... both sides seem to think guilting or threatening the other or saying suck it up is enuf... and frankly both are sorta right. Whoever emerges does have a right in the face of Trumpism to say that.
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