I am a progressive and liberal. I am here because I believe in justice, peace and equality. I do not need thanking, coddling or mollifying. I am here as an ally in the movement, a small cog in the larger machine for the goals of making my country a good place to live for everyone. I don't need my ego stroked over that: I don't need to be reminded how good it is I am here, how all my peers are racists, I don't need to be canonized or sanctified because I am going against the grain of my race and gender cohort.
Fact of the matter is I am an adult. You don't have to remind me how awesome it is I am here: in fact, I don't really want to fucking hear it. I just want to roll up my sleeves and get to work. We have a society that keeps everyone down but me and people like me, and guess what? I am ready to do the work of tearing that system down bit by bit. I was ready years ago. Thats why I am here.
Guaranteed: I wont take my ball and go home, even if my feefees get a little hurt about someone pointing out my race or my gender or my privilege. I am not gonna cry and moan and whine that we white men are being victimized here at the big bad dkos and its time for us to get our proper respect. Fuck that noise. Fuck it straight to hell. You wanna fucking help me? Be honest with me. Be brutally, brutally honest. Thats the way to help me. Call me out -- every. single. time. If I am being a whiny overprivileged dick, call me the fuck out. I promise that every time I notice a person being a whiny over privileged dick, I will call it out.
Thats the way to help. Not by thanking me for being here or some such other bullshit, but by calling out privilege where you see it, when you see it. Thanks and recognition just for being here is something I do not need.
Lets just get to work.
edit: wait a minute, I don't remember unpublishing this...how weird. Eh. Republished.