by lepton | Mar 22, 2021 | Matters of the Heart, Power Dynamic, Semantics
Intersectionality is thorny in ways that both sides of the conservative/liberal divide don’t appreciate. Intersectionality refers to the idea that when someone is a member of more than one marginalized group their experience is a singularity to people who only...
by lepton | Jun 7, 2020 | Matters of the Heart
I can’t advocate to save my life. But luckily that’s not the only way to show we care about black lives. We can offer material support which, when done hand in hand with advocacy, multiplies the help. Give to charities that support the poor, especially...
by lepton | Mar 2, 2017 | Matters of the Heart, Social Situations
The further you are away from privilege the more virtue you have to exhibit to get the same amount of reward of one of privilege. Just image if Trump would have been black and exhibited the same (at least to Christians) immoral behavior. He would not have had a shot...
by lepton | Jan 21, 2017 | Economy, Matters of the Heart
I’m the only one I know who predicted Trump could win this thing. I think it might have been because I was his target demographic, a poor white person who lost his livelihood to outsourcing. I was ran out of the suburban area I went to college in due...
by lepton | May 14, 2016 | Autism Specific, Power Dynamic
Racism is Real: Trump Helps Show It [nytimes.com]: Tomás Jiménez, an associate professor of sociology and comparative studies in race and ethnicity at Stanford University, uses what he calls the “ghost metaphor” to describe the quandary of people who personally...
