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9:55pm July 28, 2014
Anonymous asked: Thank you for posting about communities of oppressed people shutting other oppressed people out for whatever reason. One thing that also (I think? maybe I'm wrong?) fits into this is shutting people out -- whether actively or "just" emotionally -- for not being enough of an activist/an activist in the 'right' way/activist at all. This is happening to me in some very subtle ways which would probably be denied by the people doing it. Anyway. Thank you again for your blog -- it helps me so much.

Yes, that definitely happens.  One thing an older woman taught me early on in my own activism, is “Not everyone can or should be an activist.”  I had been irritated that not everyone shared my views, and she basically sat me down and explained that not everyone should share either my views or my methods of dealing with those views.