I agree with the girl you were arguing with yesterday. I think you missed her point. She doesn't mean learning things on your own and educating yourself on topics, she means explicitly when you go out of your way to tell someone they're wrong/their opinion is wrong and then not bother explaining how it is wrong. If a normal, average person said something homophobic that wouldn't be considered so and you told them they were wrong, and they asked, and you said "Educate yourself", theyd be confused
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(continued) and because they’d be confused since you couldn’t be assed to try and correct that behavior, they’d probably write you off as a moron and ignore whatever you said. this has to do with other people, not with the girl you were arguing. she’s saying she doesn’t expect someone to change bad habits unless they know what they are. that’s exactly what she means, i think. and theres a difference between outright refusing to educate yourself and not knowing how to. i hope that helps. x ♥
1. I did explain to the person she referenced. That person refused to believe anything I said about racism and cultural appropriation and demanded I share blogs who agree with me. I refused to continue that conversation because it sounded threatening.
2. The oppressed are not obligated to teach their oppressors.
3. There is ample information out there; people from oppressed groups are not white people’s private tutors. Either one of them can google or look through hours of discussion on my page. They chose not to. She chose to focus on the one and only time I stopped a discussion with someone.