Father Matt Tebbe, on Facebook today, with a wonderfully clear explanation of how supremacy systems work:

In supremacy systems - and white conservative patriarchal religious organizations run on supremacy logic more often than not - any opposition or questioning or exposing of how abuse works is considered ‘extreme’

Within supremacy logic:
Opposing abusive logic and people is equal to and commensurate with the harm and indiscretion of abusive logic and people. Both are considered ‘extreme’ and this is because: supremacy systems are anxious systems, and anxious supremacy systems rely on the majority of people a- fawning, b- freezing, c- fleeing or d- fighting along with the supremacy ideology.

But facing that ideology and calling it ‘wrong’ is a deep violation- a transgression- of how supremacy systems work. Because supremacy systems run on domination, control, conformity, submission, obedience, unquestioned authority.

I mention this all to say: I know that many who follow along and read my Facebook have also been labeled or called ‘extreme’ for attempting to oppose injustice or advocate for yourself or call attention to abuse or speak out about wrongdoing. This is one artifact of supremacy systems: it’s considered ‘extreme’ and ‘uncouth’ to explicitly, plainly, directly name and identify specifically abusive behavior.

But I want to say: opposing injustice isn’t extreme, beloved. That’s how love works. And i guess we could say that love seems extreme in systems that have chosen to run on logics other than love.

Take heart, good people. Love is the right kind of extreme to be when opposing injustice.

Matt has a gift for identifying and naming the systems that drive so much of our American lives. He’s worth a follow.