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 I may not be part of any of these groups but I know more then enough on how to prevent miss treatment and "stand up" for them. 

if i could help add some perspective on why people don’t really trust non-marginlilized groups to protect marginalized groups, because it’s bot something personal 

those outside of those groups can be and are well aware of the general oppression that the groups suffer from, but not every last dig that people like to throw at these groups, so it makes it difficult to trust that you’re gonna be protected when you’re not being represented by people who know what to protect against 

an example of this, a conversation in TTT staff chat a few months ago regarding wether or not “nigga” should be allowed to say by non black members of the server, one of the admins in the discussion used a derogatory term to refer to black people. now im giving the benefit of the doubt here, he probably didn’t know it was derogatory, but thats why its important to have the representation there, so there’s someone who *knows* that it’s derogatory and can effectively protect against people who know how to fly under the radar in terms of their bigotry

you may know enough about bigotry and oppression, but you will never have the knowledge and experiences of people who are a part of those groups, and that’s an extremely vital part of knowing how to protect