#notall

@Damselfly@blackqueer.life I think we should normalize saying things like #NotAllMen or #NotAllWhitePeople or the like when people say good things about white people or men. Let them see how vapid that whole #NotAll... formulation is.

This is sorta the same defense as “#NotAll(X)”. Because, like, yeah, obviously there are plenty of older progressives. But… The issue at hand here is one of power. Older generations have more wealth on average and hold more conservative views on average. It’s sorta on them to use their positions to make lives easier on those younger and less fortunate than themselves, and unfortunately for the rest of us, they are less likely to do so. And I say this with a boomer grandma doing her fucking best protesting outside ICE facilities. To pretend there isn’t an age bias is silly. To pretend there is only an age bias is also silly. But it does exist, interrelated to wealth and power disparities that everyone is suffering from. So, you know, fuck boomers. If you don’t like hearing that, then really reflect on what that says about you. In closing, yeah, the problem won’t simply die away, but I ain’t gonna pretend it doesn’t help, even if it isn’t every boomer’s fault.

@evan@cosocial.ca How do things like cultural appropriation jive with this? I know you've posted in the past about the appropriateness of cooking recipes from another culture, which I found strange because the power imbalance was the opposite than I would have expected. It seems more useful to talk about raw power imbalances. Yes, acknowledge there are patterns in who is powerful and who lacks agency, but focusing on the imbalance and the abuses, which go from powerful to powerless. #notall

@Terry@poa.st @D-Droid@poa.st @dictatordave@poa.st Its the same caviat as #NotALL ceo's are jewish, no real difference in the long run, you act like a jew you might as well face weimar consequences

@D-Droid@poa.st @dictatordave@poa.st #NotALL plantations owners were jewish but I will grant you they all had the heeb mindset