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I'm hesitant to say it because I worry it will be seized on by those who have less than good intentions and lack the ability to self reflect, BUT.

I read "why I'm no longer taking to white people" some time ago and a major component was a critique of what the author calls "white feminism". It is something that most people who have engaged with radical spaces will have had to contend with. You find that the most privileged women inserting themselves into leadership roles and seeing any request that they make space for others as an attack on themselves.

Those that then position themselves as allies often make such meager compromises that it can be more obstructive than doing nothing. Not because they are cynicaly perfoming but because they genuinely believe they are helping.

The prevalence of pro-police and pro-prison sentiment among these people is astounding.