Post #3912671

A nearly impossible tension to resolve, and a tension that I couldn’t even conceive of until I read this. I used to be such a fair minded centrist. Me, a white cis man, existing in a society built by people like me for people like me, taking for granted the ultimate privilege that conferred on: to not be political. It’s embarrassing but useful to continually be confronted with vestiges of that privilege. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the phrase “I’m not political” is a phrase inseparable from institutional bigotry, and soaked in the blood of minorities. If you think that’s a dramatic statement, you’re the one who needed to hear it.