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Why allies are welcome to criticise social movements

Being a member of an oppressed group is not a guarantee of wisdom or correctness.

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I’m squeezed into a huge but windowless room in a warehouse in Shoreditch, London, along with about 200 other people at an enthrallingly jam-packed talk about feminism. A small panel is taking questions from the audience on what feminism is and what feminists should do.