How white women use strategic tears to avoid accountability

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/08/how-white-women-use-strategic-tears-to-avoid-accountability

 

That the voices of “women of colour” are getting louder and more influential is a testament less to the accommodations made by the dominant white culture and more to their own grit in a society that implicitly – and sometimes explicitly – wants them to fail.

At the Sydney writers’ festival on Sunday, editor of Djed Press, Hella Ibrahim, relayed the final minutes of a panel on diversity featuring writers from the western Sydney Sweatshop collective. One of the panellists, Winnie Dunn, in answering a question about the harm caused by good intentions, had used the words “white people” and “” in the same sentence. This raised the ire of a self-identified white woman in the audience who interrogated the panellists as to “what they think they have to gain” by insulting people who “want to read their stories.”

In other words, the woman saw a personal attack where there wasn’t one and decided to remind the panellists that as a member of the white majority she ultimately has their fate in her hands.

“I walked out of that panel frustrated,” Ibrahim wrote. “Because yet again, a good convo was derailed, white people centred themselves, and a POC panel was told to police it’s [sic] tone to make their message palatable to a white audience.”

 

 

 

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White Privilege?

 

 

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44 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

White Privilege?

 

 

self identifying white women literary types are the worst.

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Hopefully this will be educational at least.

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10 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Hopefully this will be educational at least.

old news to me. 

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4 hours ago, smilesammich said:

old news to me. 

Hahaha my thoughts exactly 

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7 hours ago, smilesammich said:

self identifying white women literary types are the worst.

Whom else would they identify as, besides themself?  Do you identify as someone else, for example?

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10 hours ago, IDWAF said:

Whom else would they identify as, besides themself?  Do you identify as someone else, for example?

I often identify as a cat owner even though I have a dog.

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10 hours ago, IDWAF said:

Whom else would they identify as, besides themself?  Do you identify as someone else, for example?

read the op, i didn't write it.

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1 hour ago, smilesammich said:

read the op, i didn't write it.

If you had it would have been cultural appropriation.

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36 minutes ago, Boiler said:

If you had it would have been cultural appropriation.

how so? i'm white. 

 

omg lookit that, i just self identified.

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8 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

how so? i'm white. 

 

omg lookit that, i just self identified.

Pics or it's not true. It's not your decision. It's ours.

 

You can't just go around self-identifying on a forum.

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6 minutes ago, bcking said:

Pics or it's not true. It's not your decision. It's ours.

 

You can't just go around self-identifying on a forum.

*works up some tears*

 

am i white now?

 

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1 hour ago, bcking said:

Pics or it's not true. It's not your decision. It's ours.

 

You can't just go around self-identifying on a forum.

I self identify every morning, it is what people do now.

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7 hours ago, Bill & Katya said:

I often identify as a cat owner even though I have a dog.

I am now identifying as a nubile, young black woman who just won the lottery.  Now sumbody bring me my money!!