How about instead of yelling at people for accidental intolerance we just talk to them calmly and explain to them why what they said or did was wrong? ‘Cause it’s only natural to respond to hostility with hostility.
“accidental intolerance”
listen sometimes people haven’t been educated enough to know that something is wrong and maybe ignorance is a better word than accidental intolerance but the point still stands that that crying white girl will be more receptive to being taught why she was wrong than screamed at for something she never knew was an issue
like tumblr has taught me a lot about diversity but none of it was learned by absorbing what people were screaming at me for
I have been discussing racism, in many forms and now online, for the past ten years and for the first 7 years of that I did it the “nice” way, the “forgiving”, passive way and the majority of the time I was met with the same reactions I get now, for being direct; and those responses are that of dismissal, racial slurs, insults, death threats, and actual physical attacks. Tone policing is not going to take away the responsibilities of the oppressive/privileged group. Being nice and polite rarely got my point across and certainly did not enlighten anyone who is committed to their bigotry. I hope you get a chance to research “tone policing”.