Thread by @AkivaMCohen

For fuck's sake, stop this nonsense. Are there white PDs with a savior complex? I'm sure there are; in any group of people that's a given. But not everything everyone does is about race just because everything you do is.

And sometimes that's a matter of privilege ...

https://twitter.com/ArielleIvy_/status/1490761165349306375

I don't *need* to make my every interaction about race because I'm not oppressed along that axis. But I also don't need to make it about antisemitism, or argue that any gentile doing things that help Jews is doing it to feel better about themselves or whatever psychodrama

And before you go there, yes, Jews were absolutely systematically and thoroughly oppressed through the ages, and I'm not even talking about the literal genocide in living fucking memory.

And I get it. If you're Black, race can obviously define who you are, and what your options are, in ways that it simply doesn't for most white people, so of course you're going to see everything everyone does through that lens; it's been a valid lens for your own experience

But that's not how most white people interact with their own whiteness, even if we're beneficiaries of systemic and unearned advantages. We're not generally walking around hypervigilant about it and in a miasma of guilt. We take it for granted. So that's just not our calculus

You know which white people spend their time thinking about their own whiteness in every interaction? Racists. Nazis. Klansmen.

You don't want more white people going down that road.