This latest release of Epstein files didn’t shock me.
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This latest release of Epstein files didn’t shock me. It confirmed something I came to understand while working directly with white men during my Facilitated Conversations with Kim Crayton – Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America sessions.
A realization that fundamentally shifted the focus of my work.
In numbers too large to ever fully know, white folx have been indoctrinated by the myth of white supremacy, particularly the myth of white male supremacy, to accept harm,
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This latest release of Epstein files didn’t shock me. It confirmed something I came to understand while working directly with white men during my Facilitated Conversations with Kim Crayton – Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America sessions.
A realization that fundamentally shifted the focus of my work.
In numbers too large to ever fully know, white folx have been indoctrinated by the myth of white supremacy, particularly the myth of white male supremacy, to accept harm,
in its many forms, as the price of proximity to unearned privilege created by systems, institutions, and policies designed to “benefit” you.
From the teachings of Dr. James Dobson, to “Acquire the Fire” rallies, to the quiet norms inside white households across this country, white folx embody a truth I often share:
Family is the first place we learn to call abuse love.
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in its many forms, as the price of proximity to unearned privilege created by systems, institutions, and policies designed to “benefit” you.
From the teachings of Dr. James Dobson, to “Acquire the Fire” rallies, to the quiet norms inside white households across this country, white folx embody a truth I often share:
Family is the first place we learn to call abuse love.
When harm is packaged not only as love, but as the kind of love you must endure to access the “American Dream,” it becomes easier to understand why so many white folx are dismissive of harm, and at times, strangely energized by the harm inflicted on “others.”
You were taught that endurance is virtue.
You were taught that suffering is noble.
You were taught that obedience is safety.
You were taught that silence is maturity. -
When harm is packaged not only as love, but as the kind of love you must endure to access the “American Dream,” it becomes easier to understand why so many white folx are dismissive of harm, and at times, strangely energized by the harm inflicted on “others.”
You were taught that endurance is virtue.
You were taught that suffering is noble.
You were taught that obedience is safety.
You were taught that silence is maturity.So when abuse shows up in churches, schools, politics, marriages, and communities, it doesn’t register as a betrayal. It registers as familiar.
It feels like home.
And this is why the Epstein revelations are so destabilizing, particularly for white women.
Because many of you are starting to realize something you were never supposed to see:
YOU WERE NEVER SAFE.
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So when abuse shows up in churches, schools, politics, marriages, and communities, it doesn’t register as a betrayal. It registers as familiar.
It feels like home.
And this is why the Epstein revelations are so destabilizing, particularly for white women.
Because many of you are starting to realize something you were never supposed to see:
YOU WERE NEVER SAFE.
You were pawns in a system that conditioned you to protect the very men who were making bargains with your safety. You believed that if you performed goodness well enough, supported the right causes, stood by the right men, and embodied the right version of womanhood, you would be spared.
But the bargain was never designed to protect you.
It was designed to keep you quiet.
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You were pawns in a system that conditioned you to protect the very men who were making bargains with your safety. You believed that if you performed goodness well enough, supported the right causes, stood by the right men, and embodied the right version of womanhood, you would be spared.
But the bargain was never designed to protect you.
It was designed to keep you quiet.
No amount of activism, loyalty, or moral performance was ever going to shield you from a system that requires your silence more than your safety. And now, as the curtain gets pulled back, you are realizing that the men you defended, voted for, married, raised, and protected were often benefiting from, or at minimum comfortably coexisting with, a structure that treats women and children as disposable.
This is not an anomaly.
This is not a few “bad actors." -
No amount of activism, loyalty, or moral performance was ever going to shield you from a system that requires your silence more than your safety. And now, as the curtain gets pulled back, you are realizing that the men you defended, voted for, married, raised, and protected were often benefiting from, or at minimum comfortably coexisting with, a structure that treats women and children as disposable.
This is not an anomaly.
This is not a few “bad actors."This is what happens when a culture is built on the myth of white male supremacy and calls it normal.
And the hardest truth is this:
Many white folx have been conditioned to tolerate abuse because abuse was framed as the cost of belonging.
#LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth #ProfitWithoutOppression #FacilitatedConversations #IWantToSpeakToWhiteWomenDirectly #MythOfWhiteSupremacy #MythOfWhiteMaleSupremacy #KimCrayton
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This is what happens when a culture is built on the myth of white male supremacy and calls it normal.
And the hardest truth is this:
Many white folx have been conditioned to tolerate abuse because abuse was framed as the cost of belonging.
#LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth #ProfitWithoutOppression #FacilitatedConversations #IWantToSpeakToWhiteWomenDirectly #MythOfWhiteSupremacy #MythOfWhiteMaleSupremacy #KimCrayton
@KimCrayton1 Thank you for this thread. Bullseyes.
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