Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readFeb 7, 2021

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I get this sort of nonsense regularly, even though most of my stories are filled with citations. Just yesterday I got told that I was "neurotic" for pointing out that it's not my job to educate a white man about oppression. I told him that this was privilege in a nutshell and referred him to this stellar story (which I'm quite sure he never read).

"The response 'It’s not my job to educate you' is meant to point out the burden that we as a society place on members of less privileged groups by asking them to constantly serve as unpaid ambassadors for their communities to the dominant culture. It serves to put that burden back where it belongs — on the person with the questions to go and educate themselves instead of asking someone else to do their work for them."

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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