A safety pin sits on my desk
Jul. 28th, 2017 09:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxinthestarsI still get sad about how (from my POV at least) the whole Safety Pin thing went down.
I wore one for a few weeks after the election, but pretty soon I gave up and fled the circular firing squad. The message I was getting was, "If you wear one of these you had better be perfectly right-thinking and also a superhero highly trained in conflict de-escalation and preferably a martial art or two." It wasn't enough to say "I'm safe" as in "I intend in good faith not to hurt you," it had to be "I'm a savior; I will keep you safe," but then you got into (justifiable) criticism of the white liberal savior syndrome... At any rate just a simple gesture of solidarity didn't feel wanted or good enough.
Some days that does fill me with as much political despair as anything else.
I wore one for a few weeks after the election, but pretty soon I gave up and fled the circular firing squad. The message I was getting was, "If you wear one of these you had better be perfectly right-thinking and also a superhero highly trained in conflict de-escalation and preferably a martial art or two." It wasn't enough to say "I'm safe" as in "I intend in good faith not to hurt you," it had to be "I'm a savior; I will keep you safe," but then you got into (justifiable) criticism of the white liberal savior syndrome... At any rate just a simple gesture of solidarity didn't feel wanted or good enough.
Some days that does fill me with as much political despair as anything else.
