If someone asks you to listen to a minority group don't respond with requests for accounts to follow
If you put in the work yourself to find who in that space fits your values and then follow/boost you will understand the discourse and issues to the point you can help inform
If you put in the work yourself to find who in that space fits your values and then follow/boost you will understand the discourse and issues to the point you can help inform
If you don't do this work and expect following a couple people to passively educate you on the issues of minorities you will be lead astray by the trends that erased that population from your perception in the first place
There's a high possibility the people you will be suggested will have the views of the person you asked
This means you could learn to focus on only specific issues, get a filtered and whitewashed version of the theories, or learn from a radical one-sided perspective
This means you could learn to focus on only specific issues, get a filtered and whitewashed version of the theories, or learn from a radical one-sided perspective
If you aren't actively aware of internal discourse and you make earnest attempts to support a minority community you are far more likely to piss a lot of them off or actively work against the goals of their collective majority viewpoints
There's always discourse and sub-groups
There's always discourse and sub-groups
When people ask you to listen to minority groups because you are actively showing ignorance on their issues it's probably best to apologize, delete if appropriate to stop harm, and look to understand the discourse you stepped into
When in doubt; don't step out of your lane!
When in doubt; don't step out of your lane!
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