The danger of white liberals is that those invested in maintaining power, those who see their whiteness as property will be in spaces that purport to move toward equity and will only take and use the constructs that benefit their project. This is dangerous because it sounds and looks like equity and inclusion but people of the global majority (see:people of color) are silenced—and only allowed to speak and be known in distorted ways (Dotson). They may even co-opt the very narratives, theories, constructs posed by the oppressed and use it for their benefit—while the livelihoods of those whose narratives were co-opted remains unchanged.
Luz @aphrodite.aphroditus
