The Cost of Keeping Nepotism #Comfortable
Some people are born into lives so filled with privilege that they never acquire many of the skills the rest of us developed out of necessity. Their childhoods are built on entitlement, without compromise or awareness of the struggles the average person has to endure, so they grow up believing the world should break for them long before they ever have to bend for anybody else. They never learn that coexistence requires give and take, or what boundaries are. And without those lessons, they enter adulthood mistaking their comfort for evidence of virtue and their opinion for truth.
This is the very embodiment of #nepotism.
Nepotism isn’t a word we hear much in everyday culture. And when we do, we usually think of it as the idea of getting ahead because you have the right last name (i.e., “nepo baby”). But it’s about more than that. It’s a worldview shaped by growing up in an environment where comfort is inherited, consequences are softened, and competence has no real bearing on the outcome.
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The unspoken demand for #Muslims specifically to hold #comfortable positions for #Westerners about their countries before getting #trust and #friendship is part of why so many groups are not #safe enough for Muslims to fully participate in.
#SocialJustice & #leftist #orgs aren't exempt.
You do not get to allow your #white members to say "#Hamas is a threat" or "anyone who supports #Iran is a #terrorist", and then ask "why are we so white/western/non-Muslim?".