Have This Idek

have this idek

How to unnecessarily comment on a post about race as a White Ally™

“This is a real problem!” or “I can confirm that this is true!” because I guess us saying it’s a problem is not enough and we need your confirmation that we’re not making it up?

“As a white person…” if you’re saying that combination of words anywhere, please stop immediately. Especially if it comes right before a confirmation that we’re actually not lying and have received your White Stamp Of Approval™ (see point 1).

Any unnecessary affirmation of Yes, I Am white. Yes, I Support You (Because I’m That Great). Such as one I recently got that started with point 1, followed by point 4, and then… “much love from a white girl!”

REGURGITATING WHAT WE JUST SAID. USUALLY STUPIDLY AND MISSING THE ENTIRE POINT.

Writing an essay on the tags.

Talking about how Appalled you are that Fellow Whites would do That (and you totally never have).

“It took me three years to understand this, it seems it was written in some Alien language, but once I deciphered these Confusing, Barbaric and Strange strings of words, I have officially concluded that op is right.” You sound like a fucking scientist analyzing an animal species new to you. And DON’T cry “ableism!!!!!” I’m autistic. I can’t read long text either, my brain shuts down or flies off into the ether. I still don’t fucking go around telling, say, trans women that they speak as if they were from another universe but I was enough of an Ally to read it anyway while stressing how hard it is to understand them. You all usually do it to any post longer than three paragraphs with NO jargon that is very straightforward.

Criticizing and nitpicking tone or vocabulary that You Personally didn’t fancy, including putting words in our mouths that we never fucking said.

Adding a “take it from a white person!” to point 1. Why can’t they just take it from us.

Please just learn to zip it sometimes. It’s like you can’t stand for us to have more spotlight than you for five minutes and that you resent what we say so you end up being condescending. Please, stfu sometimes.

You especially love doing this to woc.