This is in NO WAY meant to come across like some #notallwhitepeople bullshit. But fuck it feels like white women can’t win. If I speak up, I’m drowning out the voices of POC. If I stay silent, I’m complicit and just as bad as the white women who voted for Trump. I try to find the line where I am encouraging and…

What this woman said was dumb. DUMB dumb dumb. It was tone deaf, didn’t really make a salient point, and I don’t know if it could even be held up as an example of “self proclaimed ally does stupid shit”, because she utterly failed to address the reality of the situation. Not to mention that this isn’t the time to talk…

ehh, i bet most of these protesters don’t have lady friends to go back home to.

tbh, speaking only for me here, it’s kind of hard to see where my place is in all of it. Because I’m outraged about the whole situation, but also feel personally attacked by the terrorists carrying swastikas and chanting Nazi rhetoric. But my Judaism isn’t particularly visible, while my ww-hood is, so to feel…

Some times I am afraid to say this out loud but: as a Mexican woman I am also so damn tired of al the navel gazing. I have had to endlessly educate white people on matters of immigration yes and it was surprising to me to learn that I have to do it but I still do it because expecting to find the perfect white ally…

I keep seeing various articles saying that white people need to speak up and denounce this crap, and say that reasonable white people should distance themselves from the racist assholes, and make it known that racism is unacceptable. And if you don’t you are a racist and part of the problem.

I also have seen articles…

People are angry and are looking at someone to punish. They likely don’t know any white supremacists but they certainly know a lot of well meaning liberals. Might as well go punch an ally in the face because it will make me feel better in the short-term. 

For anyone out there who is a fan of RuPauls Drag Race, there was an episode where resident contradictory judge Michelle Visage got owned by Carson Kressley: “Be you, but don’t be you. Give us less, but more.”

I am very confused. Between this article and this one on The Root, I haven’t seen anybody amongst my circle behaving like this, nobody inappropriately making it about themselves. They’re all being genuinely outraged and dismissive and asking what they can do to help.

So white silence is white violence but speaking up is also offensive. Totally makes sense.

They’re scared of being treated the way they were content to treat others.

The same way that so many reasonable, empathetic liberals come from bigoted conservative families, probably. They found an ideological system that resonated with them and rejected their family’s input.

He also floated the idea of pardoning Joe Arpaio just after these comments. He’s signalling as clearly as possible that he is still willing to go to bat for Nazis and white supremacists.

This man’s continued existence is proof that JFK was not killed by any government plot.

I wonder how Barron feels about this.

I saw a lovely distillation of what I’ve been trying to articulate for weeks, courtesy of @Iron_Spike: progressive doesn’t mean universal tolerance and giving a platform to terrorists. Progressive is the opposite of regressive.

The nazi apologists are out in full force today. I have seen countless comments today saying “both sides suck” “antifa is just as bad”.

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Thanks for the updates. Hey y’all, you may not agree with the same tactics, but anti-fa have shown the fuck up to nazis and let them know they’re not tolerated. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking anti-fa and KKK are the same. A diversity of tactics is needed and necessary. Violent resistance to the Klan and nazis…