Sort of. But just like like so many others things I try to discuss with people here, it is not ultimately about what “they” unfairly do, but rather what “we” do in our daily lives. Others societal power is not a given, it is ceded to them, in thousands of little ways. People demonstrate every day here that how we phrase differences of race, gender, and class make very real differences in quality of life and social outcomes over time.
Is it not worth doing simply because it is me who suggests doing it? Or because it doesn’t work if we do? Instead of reinventing the wheel, this seemed like an obvious consideration that should have come up before, so I thought I’d ask. Since some groups have been using European-Americans as a dog whistle for white clubs recently, it seems like good jiu-jitsu to encourage the term, if not the cause behind it.
