Teed Rockwell
1 min readFeb 16, 2022

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Nowhere in his article did he say that you shouldn't comment on it. Nor did I say you shouldn't comment on it. You are the one who said, If understand you correctly, that he had no business sharing his opinions and experiences. You didn't respond to the content of the comment. You were objecting to the fact that he commented at all. You say he was a white person commenting on a space “that wasn’t meant for them to begin with.” But if a person’s own Medium page isn’t meant for them, where are we allowed to comment that won’t threaten your psychological safety? I haven’t checked the Medium ground rules recently, but I am pretty sure they don’t include “No white person is allowed to write about their feelings and experiences on racial issues.”

I like the Fight Club analogy, except for the fact that in this case, people don't "know how to act accordingly.” We are right now living through a revolution in courtesy designed to de-center the privileged, and I think that’s a very good thing. But that means we are still making up the rules, so unlike fight club we do have to talk about it. I don’t think we should say that de-centering the privileged means don’t ever let us express our feelings anywhere. But you have the right to think that and say so, just as I have the right to say I think you are wrong

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Teed Rockwell
Teed Rockwell

Written by Teed Rockwell

I am White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Male Heterosexual cisgendered over-educated able-bodied affluent and thin. Hope to learn from those living on the margins.

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