Safety Pins

[elainegrey]

So, i am wearing a safety pin out of solidarity with others who feel threatened by the rhetoric surrounding the election of Trump. What i am seeing is a bunch of accusations that it's being done bt lazy white people.

Now, mayhaps i am particularly sensitized to the breadth of at-risk given NC's HB2 targeting of transgendered folks -- that continued through the whole campaign.

Have i missed something that says safety pins are just about race? Because i wear one for race and gender presentation and immigrant status and LGBTQ identity and religion (particularly for my Muslim kin) and for the environment.... And i'm feeling a little... piqued ... at some of the discussion around https://www.safetypinbox.com/ .

Comments

[arlie]

I don't think you've missed anything. If some people are claiming that safety pins are all about their particular minority, it's just yet another example of the way the oppressed frequently fight with each other, rather than uniting against common oppression. Or even more likely, it's just them being human - that is, self centered and unable/unwilling to see other people's points of view. It's easier to see the oppression that affects you; harder to see whatever privilege you have.