if you’re white. being,,,not straight ,,does not give you a “poc card”. i think a lot of you think it does. like being ,,not straight,,does not mean you can seperate yourself from other white people.
white people. you can reblog this. especially if you’re not straight.
I am both surprised that this is a thing, and, totally not surprised *facepalm*
I am queer, autistic and female and I TOTALLY benefit from white privilege. What I can do about it is USE this privilege to make noise and make room for people who are NOT white in any way I can. To listen to voices different to mine about what is needed, rather than thinking I know. To admit when I fuck up, because I have fucked up, and I KNOW I will again, not because I don’t care, but because my whiteness permeates every aspect of my experience. Being white doesn’t mean I’m not discriminated against for other reasons, but NONE of those reasons mean I know what it’s like to be anything other than white. I can listen, I can educate myself, I can try to empathise and open my narrow world view to try and imagine what it would be like for someone who is not white, but none of this means I KNOW. That only comes with living in a white supremacist society as a person of colour, and I can never be or experience that.
knitting in the dark 