For some reason, it *really* grinds my gears when elite whites claim moral authority on behalf of brown folks as though that’s an argument.

Like, lady, do you *know* where brown folks are on contemporary political issues?

Hint: not where Apple engineers are. 1/3 🧵 https://twitter.com/cherthedev/status/1387056406377897993
White tech elites, like other highly-educated whites, are quite a bit to the left of brown and black people, particularly socially.

Yet all I ever see is hiding behind brown people to advocate for progressive social policies. Weird!
…so, IMO, if you want to represent the politics of brown people, sweet. Go all in. Let’s see your awkward tweets on banning trans kids in sports, tech elite.

No? Then they’re just an abstract prop for your personal political agenda and you frankly suck. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/11/08/transgender-issues-divide-republicans-and-democrats/%3famp=1
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