The fight against neutrality

On our social responsibility to take a stance.

this tweet was deleted?

This tweet isn’t what the problem is. The core of the problem is with something that I can’t call whiteness anymore. And speaking to a lot of people from Toronto to down south in the United States, it’s a power and control issue. Look at some tweets that followed:

“I respect people with strong convictions. We love to have you as a customer but support you if you can’t deal with our philosophy.”

It’s an immunity in speech. I wrote there that it’s white privilege, but it’s actually not. Break down what he’s saying:

• I respect people with strong convictions: he othered @mdgee as the subject of the conversation.

It’s really hard to deal with whiteness as a non-white person. But what we call whiteness is used to describe a lot of things:

• superiority, assumption of privilege and rightness, assumption of superiority of voice, extreme kindness at times, or a complete lack of emotion.