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#2 is just not true. If you're in a room full of klansmen who are all going on about how whites are the superior race, and you disagree. Are you the problem? NO
by iamcasen 8y ago
#2 is just not true. If you're in a room full of klansmen who are all going on about how whites are the superior race, and you disagree. Are you the problem? NO!
The same is true of anything else. Sometimes the whole team is totally wrong, and their way of doing things is detrimental to the overall goals of the company.
- rekado 8y agomindfulplay wrote that it's "probable", not that there is no way that everyone else but you is the problem.
- erikpukinskis 8y ago> If you're in a room full of klansmen who are all going on about how whites are the superior race, and you disagree. Are you the problem? NO! Well, yes actually, you are. By what mechanism does a group of clansmen become one notch less destructive? Certainly not by having newcomers tell them non-whites are equal. They become less harmful by A) feeling like they have the institutional support to take care of their own, so they have less need to lash out, B) having safe, passive exposure to The Other, and C) having people they trust question their worst ideas. If you’re not making some similar constructive move, then yes: you’re part of the problem. Notice that we’re not saying you’re wrong. Of course speaking out against white supremacy is right, that’s a separate question from whether it’s problem or solution. It’s easy to be correct while contributing nothing to solving a problem.