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In reply to the discussion: White Fragility Digest #1: 13 May 2018 [View all]MineralMan
(146,404 posts)I know...those women could bow their heads to that shop worker, mutter a few "Yes, ma'ams" in a quiet voice, shuffle their feet a little, and leave the store sheepishly. Is that the sort of response you think would be appropriate? Turning the other cheek, as it were?
Here's the deal: A lot of folks have been doing things like that for a long, long time. It has not helped. Not one bit. You know what did help? Turning out in the street en masse. It wasn't until people started doing that that laws got changed and things started changing directions.
You know who needs to show some love? The assholes who do that kind of thing to people they encounter. That'd be great. Don't ask the oppressed to show any love for their oppressors. That trick never has worked, and never will.