Why Being LGBTQ+ Affirming Is Not Enough

In his monumental book “How To Be An Anti-Racist”, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi made a powerful distinction of language around the topic of racism when he asserted:

“What’s the problem with being ‘not racist’? It is a claim that signifies neutrality: ‘I am not a racist, but neither am I aggressively against racism.’ But there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. The opposite of ‘racist’ isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is ‘antiracist.’”

Going on to brilliantly unpack this concept throughout the book,...