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  1. “It’s your choice to feel hurt or not.”
    “Take back your power!”

    A thread. 🧵

    Telling people they ‘have the choice’ and to ‘take back their power’ can, at times, be a bit less helpful than one might think.

    :ablobeyes:

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    #Abelism #Disabled #Minorities #Marginalized #Capitalism #PowerDifferential #PowerStructure #Hierarchy #ActuallyAutistic

  2. People are very tied to their language and don’t like change, especially when it #challenges a #PowerStructure . In #Winnipeg , Bishop Grandin, a symbol of #colonial power, is being #replaced by #languages of the #historically #oppressed : #Cree , #Ojibwe & #Métis . While this is precisely the point behind the change, it may make those uncertain about changing power structures uncomfortable.

    theconversation.com/amp/winnip

    #decolonization #renaming #reclaiming #landback #Manitoba #Canada #Indigenous