Devorah Firestone
1 min readDec 5, 2021

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Your inistence that people who appear White can't be minorities is proof of your own prejudice and lack of empathy, I'm sorry. As an Eastern European Jew in the US, born here, I can see that discrimination, prejudice, racism, nationalism, colorism. religious bigotry, ableism and exclusion, and harrassment of the same are all toxic things that exist and not only for POCs alone. This is the point that's being made here. Being White does not make one safe or automatically enfranchised or respected.

I have been excluded, regularly harassed and physically beaten up for being what I am. If I stand next to a blonde girl, guess what, colorism is likely. Most people in the various groups I belong to have the same stories. But if I tell a POC in the current climate, my experience is disregarded quite callously by them because racism. I can't help what I am though in the eyes of those who other me. To many White people I AM NOT WHITE. To many POCs, I am. I occasionally find priviledge, but not often and not in the way a WASP does. It doesn't change my experience. I can only advise you to work MUCH harder to deliver the empathy you want to receive.

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Devorah Firestone
Devorah Firestone

Written by Devorah Firestone

Engineer for people with disabilities, actress, long-term activist, scholar. Loves cooking, Porsche and boats. #antiwar #inclusion #films #A11y

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