Safety Pin Movement Co-opted by White Supremacists

[ride_4ever]

Just one day after I boosted the signal for the Safety Pin Movement, I am now retracting that boost because I've gotten a warning from the very watchful grey853 that white supremacists have co-opted the wearing of the safety pin.

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[jesse_the_k]

After I read inkstone's great essay
BE A BETTER ALLY
Or: Think Harder about Your Motivations for Using a Safety Pin to Proclaim Your Allyship
http://inkstone.dreamwidth.org/315450.html

I realized that the safety pin campaign wasn't accomplishing what it wanted to, anyway. As she put it so well:

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Why are you choosing a safety pin to proclaim your allyship when, say, you could wear a shirt with the words BLACK LIVES MATTER written on the front in big-ass letters?

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[ride_4ever]

TYK for the increased awareness.

(BTW, <3 your Firefly icon.)