Saying "I don't like political violence, whether it comes from the left or the right" in regards to US politics is not an enlightened statement. It's anti-Black. Because at its core is the extreme reluctance to even acknowledge that almost all US political violence is on one side: the fascist side trying to maintain minority rule.
I'm not even talking about the appropriateness of violence for self-defense. I'm talking about the fact that Black folk and US progressives don't violently coup.🤷🏿♂️
You don't need a violent coup when you have the mandate of ~80% of the population. Because most people aren't trash.
"I don't like it when anyone gets a college admissions advantage based on race!" Is how affirmative action gets banned, but legacy admission stays.
"I don't like it when anyone gets a funding advantage based on race!" Is how Black VC funds get sued, when less than 0.39% of VC funds go to Black women.
"I don't like it when anyone says the N-word!" gets Black kids expelled.
Sitting down and explaining the reasoning behind AA in the context of employment as a white person helped a lot of folks I knew better understand how and why because the media narratives on it are a shitstorm.
"Okay, so we know that companies who after pruning down to the qualified candidates have say 80% white candidates and 20% black candidates usually still disproportionately hire white candidates. Many don't even realize they're doing it and it self-perpetuates the less diverse a company gets. So how do you stop that? Well, you try to make your company demographics match the demographics of people who applied. That's affirmative action. We know the company should be 20% black based on the data, but they aren't because of implicit biases. and that these biases go down when the workforce gets more diverse, especially management."
"Why hasn't it worked already? Well, see, there's this crazy thing where when you patch one hole on a dam full of holes..."
A pretty handy tactic for white male allies is to wait a beat and then just repeat back a talking point just made by a BIPOC or non-male colleague, with credit of course.
"Interesting Ted... hey I really liked what Shawna was saying can we pull that slide back up? That point about retention seemed vital."
It is truly incredible (incredibly sad) to see (white, men) people only hear words for the first time when repeated back to them by someone who looks like them.
@CodexArcanum @deilann @mekkaokereke I saw this all the time with women in the tech industry. It's like their words always had to be filtered through a man.
Not so much with BIPOC, just 'cuz there were so few visibly BIPOC folks present. :(
@CodexArcanum @deilann @mekkaokereke This happened to me pretty regularly, as a cis white male sitting in committees of a Japanese university.
(This is meant to contribute to this topic in a meaningful way, but I'm muting the conversation immediately to avoid the anger with which some will almost certainly respond.)
@CodexArcanum @deilann @mekkaokereke
Boosting + endorsement is a way to share social privilege.
(next level is to platform the not-white-cishet-male by asking them to repeat what they said)
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