Summer D

…on?” And I’m like, “I don’t know. I don’t have Chinese parents. I don’t know any more than you do.” They don’t understand that Chinese culture or any culture and whatever ethnicity you are, they are not intrinsically tied together. People struggle with that idea a lot. It makes people uncomfortable when they realize I’m not going…

…ity around a denial of our racially based privileges that reinforce racist disadvantage for others. What is particularly problematic about this contradiction is that white people’s moral objection to racism increases their resistance to acknowledging complicity with it. In a white supremacist context, white identity largely rests on a foundation of (superficial) racial tolerance and acceptance. We whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputations, rather than recognize or change our participation in systems of inequity and domination.

…oing because they’ve never reconciled their nature with the ways women shield them from discomfort. There are men kept so warm within the worlds women create that they forget that it’s winter, forget that generating warmth requires energy.