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Date: 2014-05-19 11:54 pm (UTC)
Maybe some people have learned about the suffering of others and THEN started caring, but I haven't seen it. What I have seen is instances like a white person becoming friends with a black person and then caring about racism, or a man loving a woman who ceaselessly, patiently explains how his behavior is a problem and because he cares about her he reconsiders his actions, or a cis person seeing their trans friend suffer and starting to care about how transphobia harms people. In all these cases, if they didn't care about the person experiencing it, they would not even notice/acknowledge the oppression much less care (and doing something about it is completely out of the question).

I guess I'm the minority then? It wasn't a love for a specific person that made me start to care about racism, it was having my eyes opened to the reality of racial oppression. I already had people of color in my life who I loved, but they never really talked about modern racial oppression, so I never really thought about it. (My uncle, for example, would tell stories of being ordered to the back of the bus when he was a young man, but he never spoke of anything recent.) I thought racism still happened, but wasn't as widespread as I now believe it to be. I used to believe in "reverse racism" and other such bunk, and it was only in making a whole shift in how I viewed oppression that my mind was changed. Though my shift largely begun in accepting my own oppression, and then spreading that view to oppression that didn't negatively affect me. So I don't know how you'd class that, really.
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