Allies.

[wolven7]

Personal ethos statement of the moment. I reserve the right to change it as I gather evidence, and because I'm not a monolith. I'm infinite, damn it. Anyway.

In the name of justice, I will fight for you, I will break with "my people" for you, and I will show people the concepts fairness and rightness and bias and hatred, but I will never apologise for "my group."

I'll stand beside you, and fight assholes with you, but don't expect me to say "we aren't all like that," or "sorry they did that; you know how lower-middle class/black/cis/hetero/males can be."

Because I feel that that is counter productive, in the extreme. It's spending time on blame, when we'd be better served spending time on actually changing things.

Comments

[iconnu.livejournal.com]

Frankly, anyone who would expect you to is an ass. And yes, it's pretty much never productive. /shrug.

[blindwebster.livejournal.com]

I'll stand beside you, and fight assholes with you, but don't expect me to say "we aren't all like that," or "sorry they did that; you know how lower-middle class/black/cis/hetero/males can be."

Even the SJ warriors on tumblr hate hearing the first one. Hearing the second one just makes me feel weird and uncomfortable. Anybody who thinks that statements like that are constructive is missing the point. Or crazy.