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On SJ topics, I normally retweet without comment because I don't have anything worthwhile to contribute.
Recently though, there has been a discussion about the white working class and academia.
From a WWC background, I want to talk about why I don't want WWC advocacy. [Thread]1/6 https://twitter.com/seis_matters/status/1297195105674289153
Recently though, there has been a discussion about the white working class and academia.
From a WWC background, I want to talk about why I don't want WWC advocacy. [Thread]1/6 https://twitter.com/seis_matters/status/1297195105674289153
When people talk about increasing achievement of White Working Class Men, it centres our whiteness and our maleness at the expense of our class because of the societal weight of those identifiers, and those things are precisely the things that structurally *benefit* us. [2/6]
Subsidies and benefits that target WWCM will likely harm Working Class Women and PoC, rather than decreasing the relative proportion of over-represented communities (by which we mean White Middle and Upper Class Men). [3/6]
In addition, centring our whiteness and maleness in these scenarios as being indicative of structural prejudice actively fuels some of the really grim, dangerous alt-right cults that we've seen over the last few decades. [4/6]
Activism that centres our united identity of working class attacks that system, and working intersectionally with other communities that are structurally unfavoured by the system allows those groups to rightfully centre those identities united with our voice. [5/6]
Sorry to @seis_matters for leaping off with this long thread! I'm sure I've made a misstep somewhere because my language is clumsy when talking about this stuff, but that thread was inspiring, and with everything that has been going on recently in ES, I wanted to say something.
(And by all of this thread, rather than just being critical, what do I want? What will solve the issue? More funding across the UK for working class communities in general!)
