Thread by @thearmchaircom

I said: White people, if you want to be antiracist sit down and shut up for like three months so you can begin to speak from a place of knowledge.

What y’all heard: I don’t think that white people should be allies in racial justice work and y’all you’ll never do anything.

And to be clear, some of the folks not hearing are so-called allies. White people cant stand to have limits placed on what they can and can’t do. Y’all think that y’all are entitled to access and liberty within every space.

This is why we call y’all colonizers.

Y’all hop up into everything and claim it for yourself and expect everyone to work in service to YOU.

Y’all feel so freaking entitled to be an “ally” in the way that you want to be instead of what people are asking you to do to help.

And this is why I said that whiteness can’t handle more than three months of silence. Because y’all CANT. Y’all have to talk all the freaking time and take up space at every turn and then dictate to people how they should be helped.

Imagine that you are having a crisis and you’ve asked for some very specific help. You need to sleep so you ask somebody to wash your clothes. That literally all you’re asking.

So then that person pops in and starts vacuuming your bedroom. They start cooking in your kitchen...

They start mowing your lawn, rearranging your clothes, and about 50-11 other tasks that you did not request.

All of those things might’ve needed to be done, but it’s not what is helpful to you right this minute.

On top of that, they have no idea how your household is set up, so they start effing isht up.

You didn’t need them to mow because you have a lawn service that you’re paying for.

They rearranged your drawers and now you can’t find stuff.

They cooked food you’re allergic to.

They vacuumed your room and it kept you awake when you needed to sleep. And the filter needed to be replaced on the vacuum and so now you’re sneezing because of the dander and dust in the air.

They came into your house and did a bunch of stuff that you didn’t ask for when you asked them to do one simple thing.

Then they have the audacity to get mad when you tell them that they’ve been unhelpful and caused harm.

That’s how y’all so-called “allies” be acting.

Y’all want to get in your danged feelings because somebody gave you some guidelines for how to act. You can’t do whatever you want and want to get in your feelings.

Miss me with that. You can keep your funky little allyship.

If you can’t sit back and learn without talking over people then you don’t want to learn you want to be seen in the classroom and dassit.