a big part of being raised white in a white supremacist society is you carry white supremacist logic everywhere but can never feel the weight of it in your hands
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a big part of being raised white in a white supremacist society is you carry white supremacist logic everywhere but can never feel the weight of it in your hands
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really painful when others point out that you are carrying white supremacy around but you can’t see or feel it yourself.
but also it feels really good to set those heavy white supremacist logics down. this is the kind of weight loss program I recommend! it never ends!
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white supremacist logics can show up for me as white fragility and tone policing, common for people socialized as cis white women.
part of navigating our place in patriarchy is performing “calming down” and “restoring order” labor for angry/ unpredictable men in our homes, workplaces, etc. We are also conditioned to use our own emotion for this work.
we have no training about what it means to be white so we also readily apply these tools any time we feel socially threatened…
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since “order” as we’ve learned to protect it necessarily means inherent patriarchy & white supremacy, anyone trying to exert other logics is perceived by us as breaking order or creating tension.
we can learn to exist in the “dis-order” of breaking these inherited logics, and allow the presence of a ‘positive tension’ to break a ‘negative peace’
but it’s not easy cuz it goes against a lifetime of socialization & internalized hierarchies
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which is to say that in order for us to “set down” our white supremacies, we have to be able to see them. we - as humans socialized as white - have to learn to recognize patterns arising in ourselves and practice making different choices about how we react. no matter what we write in our social bios, many of us will harm others until we practice doing otherwise