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6:10pm August 3, 2015

fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton:

katisconfused replied to your post:I see, often, people use the idea of “people are…
yeah I have seen on several occasions someone who is in x group makes a post that doesn’t align with tumblr and have people who are not in x group come and scream at them for hurting people in x group, even though they ARE IN the group they defending

I see that constantly. People are like “protect (minority group) at all costs!” but the fine print says “unless they don’t have an SJ-approved perspective.”

It’s like… not everything people do in the service of social justice is right, in the sense of being ethically right AND factually correct. People need to be able to have conversations about that. It’s absolutely vital that we work toxicity out of activist spaces, because everything a toxic activist group does just turns toxic. People have this “the ends justify the means” attitude but the ends are a toxic wasteland where nobody is actually being protected or supported at all, and everyone is tearing everyone else down.

You can’t set your beliefs up to be beyond criticism and beyond refinement and expect that go well for you or anyone else you’re trying to convince.