Yesterday I posted about the poem that was going to be read at the Holocaust Remembrance until survivors protested. The poem was an apologist attempt at presenting a Nazi volunteer as a “victim” of the war on equal standing with the Holocaust survivors. I was also critical of this on Facebook and expressed my astonishment at the organizers who thought this might be a good idea.
Today, the conversation on Facebook continued and some White, native, Dutch feminist woman went ballistic that I hold such “narrow minded views” and took it upon herself to insult me because I am “a poor thinker” (her words). Now, this is what I am up against. That a member of the most rancid frameworks can and will attempt to invalidate any critique of the institutionalized racism that runs rampant in this country. And that she feels entitled to do this because she has a non white partner and does work in some places in the Global South. Like that is a guarantee of non privileged thinking.
And this is why we cannot have nice things.
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