But what do?

"We can admit our own blame and culpability, and we should.

We can seek out spaces where people have already organized and built support, and if we do, we will encounter many people who have lived for a long time under the traditional threat of American christian patriarchal supremacy.

In these moments, we can leave space for the very natural resentment that may arise that it has taken us this long to find them, and the very well-earned suspicion that our allegiance will prove undependable, and we can receive it without petitioning for our own blamelessness."

No one will hate you for trying to do better.
They will be disappointed at the delay, the remaining (increasing) work, and the circumstances, but they are grateful for any change of heart and plans.

As long as you actually mean your support (show it! Listen! Learn! LISTEN! Only *THEN* ASK)
then your support can have sustainable effects for other people who needed it before you knew they existed.

https://www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-the-dark/

#YouCanBeWrong #WeCanBeWrong #OortArtCloud

"Fascists believe that if they brutalize and punish people enough, they can do anything, but that's not true.

For example, fascists cannot accept blame or accountability for what they have done, or admit their complicity in what has been done on their behalf.

And, because fascists hold themselves to be blameless and exceptional, they cannot admit that they are improvable, so for fascists the idea of truth and repair and restoration are treated as attacks and threats.

For this reason I think fascists struggle to repair things that are broken, or enter into awareness of reality as it is.

They cling instead to their alternative fantasy of their own supremacy, and this makes them as vulnerable to reality as they are brutal with it."

#YouCanBeWrong
a bit like https://zeroes.ca/@currentbias/113797959230416286

Help! I got ranty again.

#angry #publicHealth #epidemiology #sociology #groupPsychology #language #communication #comms #PublicationEthics #intersectionality #OtherPeopleAreNotYou #cognitiveBias #CognitiveBiases #YouAreNotImmuneToPropaganda #YouCouldBeWrong #YouCanBeWrong #IcanBeWrong #AnyoneCanBeWrong