Correct!
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ANOTHER ONE???
What the unhappy fuck is with this reverse passing shit?
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Also it’s all well and good if Harriot isnt mad because he’s not personally affected by the woman’s charade, but that doesn’t mean real damage hasn’t been done to WOC.
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And not to mention it damages the reputation of academia, especially the various humanities fields which include many more people of color and women of all races than used to be. It’s yet more fuel for the conservative argument that academics are primarily frauds not doing real work.
I just don’t understand why this woman felt the need to masquerade as someone she fundamentally was not. It’s not like white academics don’t write on marginalized communities all the time already. Why go out of your way to pretend to be what you’re studying?
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Did you read her Medium piece?
“Something something something I had a bad childhood.”
Ugh, yes that is sad, but still, GTFOH
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I did… my eyes are still stuck in the back of my head… What a load of utter shit. Plenty of us had bad childhoods and we don’t go around appropriating the culture of others.
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That was beautifully written. I’ll have to look up some more of Michael Harriot’s work. I read so often of the ugliness and hate imposed on Black people and not nearly enough of the beauty in being Black.
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He regularly posts on the Root and he’s on the twitters, too, if you have a twitters, too.
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Harriot’s follow up on saying “I feel fine” about Jessica Krug in his clapback mailbag is worth the read (3rd response). I learned a lot about Amelia Boynton and was completely unfamiliar with the history of the phrase
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He’s still being dismissive of the damage that was done to Black women by Krug, and that’s NOT okay.
The problem with a lot of Black men who are fighting for equality is that they neglect to see that means fighting for equality for Black women too.
Anyone who says “I don’t care because it doesn’t affect me” isn’t helping, no matter how cool or on point they may be, most of the time.
Best reply to Harriot’s article:
"I wonder how all the black people that missed out on jobs, funding, etc. feel about it though. That type of thing has both an economic, professional, and mental and emotional effect. She didn’t just steal culture , she stole opportunity that would have benefited actual black people on multiple levels. I hope she gets dragged to kingdom come. I hope her darkest days are twice that of the black folks she robbed."
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I’m gonna put this here…
And in Odd Stuff, too, cause it kind of fits in both.
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Treading on thin ice there; sounds like viable lawsuits just waiting to happen.
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Gross
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Going back to the dot-com 1.0 days, I’ve seen companies here and there that operated like cults. The deeper we sunk into late-stage capitalism, the more likely it became that creeps like these would decide to systematise this dysfunction and sell it.
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Let me echo @Melizmatic…
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Favorite quote from the article:
I don’t know for certain that white people were the only ones behind the decision making here. But if I was a betting man I’d say the person who greenlit this shit is also someone who has never successfully clapped on the 2 and 4 their entire life.
I know that guy!
Seriously, though, this reminds me of some of my own college-student experiences. Being involved in environmental and social justice activism, we often had forums for, say, women, or POC, LGBTQ, etc., to discuss experiences and such. I remember some of the white cis males saying they felt really marginalized because, where was their safe space to discuss their experiences?
It annoyed me at the time, because really, who was stopping them from making their own space to discuss these things? Did they want someone to do it for them?
But I can empathize now a bit that as a “woke” white dude, one might feel the lack of a community to work through things…I’m not justifying anything, just I can imagine feeling kind of alone.
The example you shared is extremely tone deaf in its approach, but given thread we’re in, have you seen good examples of “white dudes” creating a space to discuss and come to terms with their privilege and experiences with a goal of being better global citizens? Without coming across all Jim Crow-ey?
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Part of the problem here relates to something I’ve posted previously:
I’m reminded of a conversation I had with my Mum when I was very small.
Me: “There’s a Father’s Day and a Mother’s Day, why isn’t there a Children’s Day?”
Mum: “Every day is Children’s Day”.
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