Vanilla Ice

Bad@jlai.lu · 5 days ago

Vanilla Ice

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 1 day ago

Like, we do need to address it but how do we minimize the resistance that comes from the defensiveness of “dont call me bigot?”

I mean, I have no idea but anyone will get defensive over something this simple then they can frankly take a hike. Movements can (and in fact are more likely to) succeed without selling their souls to the centrist devil.

We all need to learn that past mistakes are only a permanent mark if we do nothing to change them

Yes, but the first step of the process of rectifying past mistakes is for someone to point out those mistakes. Someone who rejects criticism of their past mistakes outright is nothing more than a liability.

melitele@feddit.it · 6 hours ago

But not everyone rejects because of malice. But often of ignorance.

The “centrist devil” has become another absolutism born from justice.

I am not saying water down the gravity, i’m just asking if we can do better in shortening the gap between defensiveness and acceptance, and redemption.

Most of what i see at least in my country Italy in regards to racism and structural issues is playing holier-than-thou and finger pointing.

Being right is not enough. Making new ways of “us vs them” between ordinary people, those that are bystanders to the oppression, is simply repeating past mistake, just as it would be a grave mistake to diminish the gravity of what’s to heal.

It seems impossible to solve, but the already woke were asleep once too