To be clear, these are the opinions of my mother, I don't necessarily agree with any of it.
I've been involved in a few fairly heated discussions about the effectiveness of anti-Fascism protests and the relevance (or non-relevance) of Tina Fey's cake-eating sketch on SNL, and here's what I've noticed. The more white and comfortable you are, the more likely you seem to be of the opinion that street protest is not helpful and that Fey's piece was a brilliant piece of satire. Those with more 'skin in the game' (pun partially intended) because they are more visibly marginalized (through race, or poverty, or non-binary identity, or a combination of any of those three axes of oppression) seem to think that Fey's sketch was tone-deaf at best and offensive at worst and it is especially those who do not live comfortable existences who are the most willing to lace up and face Fascism. If you got nothing, you've got nothing to lose, I guess. Your privilege is showing, you might want to tuck that in.
