I’m not a visible minority, but this is what I have come to learn after listening to an amazing Aboriginal woman’s talk at a conference years ago.
If you are genuinely curious, there are so many resources out there to learn about others experiences and appropriate venues to ask them questions.
You don’t know what way people on the street are going to receive your request/burden for them to exert their time and effort to educate you on, so just don’t. You don’t know how upsetting it may be to constantly be sought out and othered.
So if you don’t know, don’t do it. Find an appropriate way to learn.
Asking people their personal experience is the most appropriate way to learn about things outside your own experience.
Yeah, some people don’t want to share. Those people can say that. When everyone uses their words instead of making assumptions about what people do and don’t want, the world is a better place.
It’s interesting that you say specifically, “sought out and othered”, because I think that without the experience of being not just a minority but discriminated against, this just wouldn’t even come up. I’ve had so many conversations with people from different cultures where we told each other about various traditions, foods and all sorts. It’s the most natural conversation in the world when in mixed company. But there is no tinge of prejudice in the experiences I am thinking of.
You don’t know how a person on the street or anywhere else will respond to ANY interaction. By this logic we just shouldn’t talk to one another.
We ALL get it. You’re burned out. Take a seat champ. You’re also alone in your thinking here and trying to force others to commit to saying fuck off to any who want to genuinely learn and maybe help our communities.
At which part of the comic are you speaking for yourself?
The part where you are a brown male wheelchair rider, the part where you are a muslim woman or the part where you are a white blind man?
If you want to speak for yourself, please speak for yourself and not for everyone else.
I’m not a visible minority, but this is what I have come to learn after listening to an amazing Aboriginal woman’s talk at a conference years ago.
If you are genuinely curious, there are so many resources out there to learn about others experiences and appropriate venues to ask them questions.
You don’t know what way people on the street are going to receive your request/burden for them to exert their time and effort to educate you on, so just don’t. You don’t know how upsetting it may be to constantly be sought out and othered.
So if you don’t know, don’t do it. Find an appropriate way to learn.
Ok, so you took it upon yourself to speak for groups of people that YOU DO NOT BELONG TO, because why exactly?
Because they think they are to weak to speek for themselves?
Because you think you need to force your help upon them?
You are exactly the guy “helping” the blind person in the third panel. Dude, really, get a grip. That behaviour is not ok.
Asking people their personal experience is the most appropriate way to learn about things outside your own experience.
Yeah, some people don’t want to share. Those people can say that. When everyone uses their words instead of making assumptions about what people do and don’t want, the world is a better place.
It’s interesting that you say specifically, “sought out and othered”, because I think that without the experience of being not just a minority but discriminated against, this just wouldn’t even come up. I’ve had so many conversations with people from different cultures where we told each other about various traditions, foods and all sorts. It’s the most natural conversation in the world when in mixed company. But there is no tinge of prejudice in the experiences I am thinking of.
You don’t know how a person on the street or anywhere else will respond to ANY interaction. By this logic we just shouldn’t talk to one another.
We ALL get it. You’re burned out. Take a seat champ. You’re also alone in your thinking here and trying to force others to commit to saying fuck off to any who want to genuinely learn and maybe help our communities.
Smfh