The Language of Power, Privilege, Survival, and the Fragility of Allyship
We struggle to find words that ring true, so we can make sense of our existence. Then we end up arguing about the words. On Threads, a story drew both praise and fury. A woman, nomadnovelswithtea , described stepping in when police arrested her 18-year-old neighbour, a young man with mental health struggles. She calmed him, spoke to the officers, and went home safely. Why? Because she was white. “My whiteness allowed me to speak to him and for me to speak to the police without me getting arrested,” she wrote.