I AM POSTING THIS FROM WORK

So far I spent half an hour chatting to the new girl while I waited for my forgotten password to reset, and since I can't do anything until someone else gets back from a task in the city am currently lesuirely emptying my 300+ full inbox(*). (Oh and I spent about 10 minutes figuring out how to operate the sandwich toaster without having the circuit break)

Have not been overcome with overwork thus far :D

(*)It doesn't help that in the downward slide that eventually led to me having to leave I became increasingly unable to deal with my email. After making sure none of the new ones were urgent I started from the bottom and I'm currently at 1/08/08...

Listen to the people at the bottom of the pile

Something I realised I left out of Various axioms of my anti-(racism sexism etc) (this extended conversation is definitely making me express a bunch of interconnected ideas I hadn't properly articulated before :))

EDIT: This is not a self evident truth, it's an axiom of the way I think. This does not mean it's right, but you'll have to work pretty hard to convince me otherwise :) (But one of my other axioms is question everything)

As I said there, if there is a society wide inequality which puts one group in a position of less power with regards to another, then the group with more power cannot be trusted to judge how best to fix that inequality. No matter how good their intentions(*).

Feminism and the fight against sexism needs to be mostly run by women.

Anti-racism needs to be mostly run by POC.

The left needs significant input from the poor and lower class. (Unfortunately once you have the power to change things you generally aren't lower class any more so this gets a bit catch 22ish)

etc.

And if you're in the more powerful group then you cannot rely on the opinions of other people in the same group.
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