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In reply to the discussion: How you can tell if Sanders speaks to the concerns of people of color [View all]Prism
(5,815 posts)I actually had you and a few others in mind while writing this. The way you were being treated by those posters was gobsmacking. It's as if your lived experience didn't exist because you weren't saying what some white people wanted to hear. So they pretended you didn't exist and instead fished for the opinions they liked.
This is one of the definitions of privilege. It's one of the biggest no-no's for allies.
But it doesn't matter, because . . . reasons.
This is why I find it so hard to take message board activism at all seriously. It's so transparently shallow and self-interested. People don't really care. They just want to win a board fight. If they practiced what they preached, they'd be horrified at their own behavior. Nope! Unrepentant to the end.
Everyday, I thank my lucky stars that these people do not exist in my office (I do social work). People on the front lines in the flesh do not behave this way. They don't have time for these games.