Not my posts but an interesting thought.
I like this string of tweets but I have two reservations:
1. I think we’re right to hold those we care about to higher standards. These aren’t just the people we can hurt, these are the people who can hurt us the most. And it makes sense to be more critical of shows you love because if there is racism on some shitty show I never watch I hardly notice but if there is racism on a show I love, it ruins something I loved and I feel loss. It is normal to react to that loss. Finally, some shows and channels actively promote themselves as ‘progressive’ and ‘diverse’ and profit from that reputation. We’re right to expect them to live up to that.
All that said, destructive lashing out at people for any imperfection does happen and it is a problem that comes from feeling hurt and helpless. Recommended reading: 8 Steps towards building Indispensability culture. Http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/11/indispensability-vs-disposability-culture/
2 that last message ruins it all. Based on all they just wrote: Does a sign ‘stop trashing these bathrooms’ stop people with no control from trashing bathrooms? No. Because the process is one fueled by desperation. So would a post reading ‘stop doing this destructive behavior’ in social justice spaces be enough to fix it here? Of course not. That’s far to simple a ‘solution’. If people lash out because of desperation, we need a far more complex answer focussed om healing. ‘Just stop’ isn’t going to cut it.
