Date: 2010-05-21 03:20 pm (UTC)
deborah: the Library of Congress cataloging numbers for children's literature, technology, and library science (Default)
From: [personal profile] deborah
right. I think the best parallel to keep in my mind is the one that I thought of as white anti-racists who forget that there are POCs in the anti-racist community; or middle-class social justice advocates; straight allies of the queer community... In general, when you're working with any community that doesn't have privilege, but you yourself have privilege, it's sometimes difficult to remember that the reason you hear more people like you speaking is because the systemic structures privilege practically by definition make your voice easier to hear. It doesn't mean that the people whose allies you are aren't speaking, it means that systemically forces coordinate to silence their voices.

Which makes it even more important to shut up and listen, but having been the person with privilege and no pants in other such fights, I'm trying to be sympathetic.

I'm angry, but at least intellectually sympathetic.
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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.

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