My response to this is always: please do it, then, because none of them will ever listen to me, the subject of their ire. I cannot be expected to be my own liberator and a patient, knowing teacher to my oppressors at the same time. Allies in advantageous positions need to leverage their afforded social power- their privilege- to do this work, and in my experience, they do not. But a lot of them sure do sound exactly like this.
My response to this is always: please do it, then, because none of them will ever listen to me, the subject of their ire. I cannot be expected to be my own liberator and a patient, knowing teacher to my oppressors at the same time. Allies in advantageous positions need to leverage their afforded social power- their privilege- to do this work, and in my experience, they do not. But a lot of them sure do sound exactly like this.