Earlier today I posted about a bot that creates very accurate #AltText (in my limited experience thus far). I was gently reminded that the tool isn’t about helping *me,* a sighted person, find joy in sharing my photos here. It’s about providing access to images for folks with vision loss
How whites killed Black Conscious Original Hip Hop
The same goes for people of the #globalmajority —and anti-Blackness is *often* demonstrated by non-Black people of the global majority.
Your #oppressed identities do not make you immune to oppressing others. If anything, they can sometimes encourage you to hold fiercely to the remaining power and #privilege that you *can* access.
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"What makes affluent anti-vaxxers distinct is their belief that they are the ones questioning the system, when in fact they’re coasting on its success."
“50,000 dead Palestinians isn’t enough to call it genocide.”
How fucking morally vacuous do you have to be for such a thought to even enter that privileged brain of yours?
Forget the consensus of every genocide scholar out there that this is genocide. Forget the live-streamed suffering. How devoid of humanity are you for your argument to be “that’s just not enough dead people for me.”
Whenever I see people posting about how travel, I can't be help but think about the issue of privilege.
It's not only a mater of privilege to be able to afford to travel, but in my case, to be safe traveling to countries and regions that hate Jews, which means a large part of the world is off limits right now.
Probably now more than any time in the last 300 years.
“We invoked the #StateSecrets #privilege over many of the details—of course our officials discussed what should be divulged publicly. This just proves they are responsible public servants putting the safety of the American people first. The leakers of these emails, on the other hand, clearly do not care about public safety,” McLaughlin said.
Is it time for England to catch up with the modern world and allow its population to enjoy - responsibly - the land we all share? Yup.