Dear White People, Your Safety Pins are Embarrassing
Why not just wear a sign that says “My white privilege makes me feel better?
4 min readNov 12, 2016
Seriously? This is a thing now? Wear a safety pin to show “you’re an ally?” So immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people, and others who were targetted and persecuted and (further) marginalized by the Trump Campaign will know they’re “safe” with you?
No. Just no. Please, take it off.
Let me explain something, white people: We just fucked up. Bad. We elected a…