Fortunately, there is now a growing BIPOC Environmental & Climate Justice Collective in Berlin, where we share these experiences of being silenced or tokenized and work together on how to link anti-racism and inequality in climate justice.
Or do this?
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There are legitimate differences in the threats climate change presents to minority communities. And many “solutions” to climate change end up as little more than poor-taxes that disproportionately fall on these communities.
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These are just proxies for class conflict. None of the performative identity politics BS is helpful when it’s just PMCs forming cliques in the lunch room.
To check I’m understanding, what are you calling performative identity politics BS?
Whenever I would question the whiteness of these spaces and how strategies didn’t take race into account, I would be met with uncomfortable silences. The last time, at a nationwide movement-building workshop last April, I was asked, “Well then, why are you even here?”
This shit. It reads like something out of a Robin DiAngelo piece. Selectivized anonymous anecdotes designed to stir the pot.
