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The Problem With White Moderates
White moderates want to mean well, but the reality is they aren't comfortably decentering their right to comfort (which is a characteristic of white supremacy). They aren't opposed to change, progress, and inclusive communities, but aren't willing (either knowingly or unknowingly) to actually do anything about it.
This makes them harmful to the people and movement they claim to care about.
The Impact of Omitting Our Histories in History Class
Does anyone else think it's fucked that we were taught "those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it"
...In the very classrooms where our curriculums erased Canada's inhumane treatment of Indigenous, Black and other marginalized communities?
Let's talk about the "Freedom" Convoy
It's been about a year since Trudeau used the Emergency Act to finally disperse the three-week-long Ottawa Occupation that terrorized the people of Ottawa. And while today, the streets of Ottawa may be cleared, alt-right extremism, hate, and violence continue to spread covertly throughout Canada - and no one seems to be doing anything about it.
On how POC* are complicit in white supremacy
So POC, despite having experienced ancestral and ongoing trauma as a result of colonization in our ancestral lands, now benefit from these colonial structures in the West.
And because our education systems do an incredible job of ensuring that we don't see/understand the link of colonization to white people or colonization to the 'success' of Western nations, we begin to become conditioned to see whiteness as a key to success.
We view financial security, success, stability, as things that result from whiteness. We accept whiteness as the standard for what is "normal", "acceptable", "polite", and thus celebrated - so we try to mimic it.
And in doing so, we interalize these beliefs that run counter to our very existence, resulting in internalized racism.