Thread by @lynnshon

The elephant in the room is that the perpetrator is a POC.

White supremacy is not white vs. POC. White supremacy is a system that can use all of us to oppress POC.

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My childhood bullies were mostly POC.

It’s been a long journey of learning, listening, and sharing, to stand in solidarity with the ppl who have harmed me, & the ppl I have harmed.

You can’t begin to dismantle white supremacy without doing that work.

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Hatred can grow from the ignorance, but compassion and solidarity can grow from the learning.

Blaming Trump 4 every hate crime frees us from looking into the mirror, and holds us back from doing the real work.

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You’ve heard this b4, but the violence against #AAPI is not new.

Every AAPI in this country has one too many personal stories they keep secret about the violence they have faced.

Systems of reporting the #HateCrime and viral videos are what’s new.

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I’m disgusted but not at all surprised by the security guards who watched the attack, and deliberately shut the door.

I wonder if they would have done the same for a dog.

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In case these resources haven’t entered your feed yet:

A guide to bystander intervention ihollaback.org/app/uploads/20…

Report #aapihate @StopAAPIHate stopaapihate.org

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