@zhivi @BlackMastodon Fantastic graphic, gets right to the heart of why this statement is so problematic. I have heard this said by a few people who would consider themselves to be extremely progressive, if not “social justice warriors”, and I remember thinking, “ah, you think you’re on a higher moral plane than the rest of us, don’t you? But you don’t want to do the dirty work of examining why race matters”. It is one of the reasons I don’t call myself progressive even if I share some views, there’s a lot of blindness to what reality looks like for Black people, working class people, anyone not in their sphere. Of course not all progressive/liberal people are like this, it is a very particular strain. I do live in the San Francisco Bay Area by way of a blue-collar Detroit metropolitan suburb, which gives me a different POV from many people I meet here.