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Date: 2012-05-23 11:45 am (UTC)The other way is to give people with less privilege the benefit of the doubt when it comes to sensitivity or lack thereof. Maybe it hasn't happened yet, but in the future, if a woman / minority group member reacts to something and you think "oh, that's really not that bad" -- consider that they're the expert on the subject of what harms women / minority group members, and listen.
Perhaps these are things you're already doing. If so, perhaps the most important thing you can do is set an example for other people *like yourself* -- even when you're in a group that's entirely white het cis men, call out oppressive comments when you see them. There should be plenty of work to do (in my circles, for example, there are so many casual uses of "lame", "crazy", and "retarded" as pejoratives that I can't hope to call out every one).