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6 Signs Your Callout Isn’t Actually About Accountability [yesmagazine.org]

 

This article was originally published by Everyday Feminism. It has been edited for YES! Magazine.

No matter how long you’ve been politically conscious, you’ve probably figured out by now that activists are by no means perfect. Even while we’re trying to end oppression, we can sometimes make some harmful mistakes ourselves.

So how do you address oppressive mistakes in your community?

Say you’re at a social justice event that’s promising in some ways but problematic in others.

What do you do? Take over the microphone and call out the organizers? Leave early and write a lengthy post on the Facebook event page about what they’ve done wrong? Invite the hosts out to coffee to point out their errors?

[For more on this story by Maisha Z. Johnson, go to http://www.yesmagazine.org/peo...ountability-20171019]

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