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Originally Posted by Hugh
Yes, because it's just like Cambodia in the 70s.
Get a grip...
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I used scare quotes, to emphasise that the word "camps"
wasn't to be taken literally.
Are you denying these things are not going on, in the name of things like "diversity training", "race based affinity groups", "race based caucuses", where white people are to blame for everything?
These are attempts at "re-education". Of course re-educating people not to murder 8 year old kids is not going to happen, is it?
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For white people to take part in anti-oppression work in a way that’s useful rather than destructive or distracting, we have homework to do.
One of the formats that many activists have found useful are white caucus groups. The goal of these groups is to make focused time for “white work,” work that it’s important for white people to do separately from people of color (POC).
There’s not consensus in the broader racial justice movement about what white work is. If you ask lots of different people about what white work should be, the answers fall in a few rough categories, something that includes at a minimum:
- Processing white feelings: working through emotions that often come up for white people like sadness, shame, paralysis, confusion, denial, etc.
- Retraining: learning new behaviors, concepts, missing histories, and ways of seeing that are hidden from us in white supremacy.
- Action to shift power: taking action to redistribute resources, change who’s in power, alter institutions, etc, etc.
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Ultimately, caucus work is about learning how to decenter “whiteness and its toxic effects, and to counter this through the centering of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, or “BIPOC”.
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