ID: Drawing of a duck billed platypus underwater, they’re wearing a rainbow coloured t shirt and a pink bum-bag, and saying: “Ally is not something you can self-identify as, it’s a title that you earn. Let your actions speak for themselves!”

Credit: Sophie Labelle

  • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Step 1: learn how to do your own work instead of expecting (or even demanding) marginalised people expend our time, energy, and emotional labour doing it for you.

      • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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        16 days ago

        If this is what it takes to push you away, it was never about being an ally in the first place, but about stroking your own ego.

      • Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        Feels like dealing in absolutes to me.

        You’re either all in or not in at all.

        “If you don’t support the troops feel free to stand in front of them.”

        Can’t I just be outspoken in my social circles and attempt to affect change at the lowest levels, thus spreading my message amongst people I can relate to?

        Nope. Sign petitions and call politicians or you’re just a poser.

        Or so this post seems to say.

    • Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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      19 days ago

      This smug copypasta can be applied to any minority or marginalized group, but it’s still not helpful.

      Intersectionalism is important because everyone has a different experience - to expect me to internalize their struggles by reading a book or watching a video essay is absurd. You need to tell your story, we need to give space and listen. Crossing your arms and saying “do your own research” is unproductive - a well meaning ‘normie’ who is not terminally online doesn’t know where to start, autodidacts almost always have terribly shallow knowledge pools.

      You, the person living through your experience, are the subject matter expert - why reject that authority that people have granted you and shown that they are ready and willing to listen to you?

      • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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        16 days ago

        You need to tell your story, we need to give space and listen.

        Lmfao, not how it works, labour digger.

        Edit just to clarify: Millions of people have already written about their lived experience of oppression (as a disabled person, as a queer person, as a Black person, as a Muslim, as a Jew, as every. single. marginalised group out there), you people don’t get to demand a personalised education from every marginalised person you come across, we don’t owe you shit especially when you won’t even open a search engine and make the most basic effort to learn for yourself.