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Chris La Tray's avatar

This is wonderful. Alison could be talking about the outdoor/hiking industrial complex too, line for line (and so many others too). This particular quote grabbed me as well:

"There’s also, of course, a large segment of people who are still in their feelings about it: working through what feels like a personal attack and haven’t yet come out the other side. I’m okay with that too."

Writing about Indigenous issues and being challenging at times, you can imagine I get this a lot. I get so many "not all white people"-type responses, usually only via email. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but at the same time, why should I? That centering of self in a larger issue is a problem. And why give a benefit of the doubt when over 50% of white people – overwhelmingly men but also women – have been vigorously voting for Trump and his ilk? So when faced with those stats, any person I meet who is white has a greater than 50/50 chance of being someone who is opposed to everything I care about. Damn right I'm going to be on guard!

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Aaron Barnhart's avatar

I want to thank Alison for her rec's and for giving me yet another reason not to run Boston. I promise, though, to resist the temptation to virtue-signal when telling people why I'm not going to run the BM and just stick to, "You know, Boston's not all that!"

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