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You're not "the person in pain" though. You are pretending to speak for them. In fact, one could say it's racist that you're feeling entitled to appropriate th
by Uhhrrr 5y ago
You're not "the person in pain" though. You are pretending to speak for them.
In fact, one could say it's racist that you're feeling entitled to appropriate their pain when you claim to speak for them. Your racism is hurting me, and will continue to hurt me until you acknowledge that racism necessarily involves discrimination based on race, and that it's wrong and problematic of you to appropriate the actual suffering of others.
- threatofrain 5y agoAnd you are assuming that people who are hurt don't want allies to take up their hurts. Some people can only win with allies, and that means people who don't share the same hurts taking them up as burdens of their own anyway. And you know, democracy is all about coalition building.
- Uhhrrr 5y agoAn ally should take up the hurts of others, but not make up the hurts of others.