I am a queer, disabled white person.

While I may face marginalization based on being queer & disabled I am still white. My whiteness is not overwritten by being queer/disabled. My whiteness does not go away. My whiteness means I will be treated better than BIPOC regardless
My whiteness means I will not suffer the same marginalization as a queer BIPOC, or a disabled BIPOC. My whiteness means regardless of anything else, I still am privileged in the eyes of the various power systems that determine things like life and death in the US
I& #39;m bringing this up because I& #39;ve had white ppl in my mentions try and derail conversations about white women and anti-black violence by claiming, in so many words, that they are just as marginalized because they are disabled and thus "don& #39;t count" as white
You still count as white.

Your whiteness will still act as a shield.

Can you suffer from systemic violence? Of course. Can you feel the negative impacts of marginalization? Of course.

But not in the way a black person would suffer
I& #39;m not trying to tell people they don& #39;t face oppression; they obviously do. I know. I& #39;ve been through it. But by inserting ourselves into conversations about race and racialized violence we& #39;re using our whiteness & the power it grants us to once again silence BIPOC
So please please understand I& #39;m not invalidating your experiences but I am reminding you that you and I are still white.

And our whiteness still shields us.

And if we want to counter white supremacy we have to accept this and work against it.
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