the OOP is white of course
i do think this is the logical extreme of robin diangelo white fragility-type thinking where anti-racism is a spiritual process of self-improvement for white people rather than, like, working towards tangible goals
It also seems off that burning every bridge to your family is seen as more effective than like... maintaining relationships and having less combative communication. If you can't be anti-racist and maintain at least a few civil relationships with people who have different views, how are you going to effectively do anything?
ah, but the point is not to effectively do anything! the point is to portray yourself as a kind of lone wolf facing insurmountable odds, so when you don't accomplish anything it's just proof positive that the system is too stacked against you and anyways your hands are perfectly clean. actually trying to get things done means that you might fail -- or that you might succeed, and have to deal with that.
needless to say i do not have a lot of respect for this type of activist, who would probably not describe themselves as more interested in theatrics than results but like: the rest of us can see.
I think it also paints yourself as, like the only anti-racist white person, because only you and a few other angry people on Twitter are intelligent, thoughtful people, and everyone else is a horrible blundering mob of evil who can never change.
And, of course, there was never any significant anti-racist action before you came on the scene, so it's not like your parents could possibly be anti-racist too. (And since every single person in the world was clearly racist before meeting you, the anti-racist white Messiah, they can never learn to be different, because that's how that works.) Activism is all about who's angriest on the internet, and your grandma doesn't even have a Twitter, so fuck her I guess.
