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[missbrooks]

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[dyvinesweetness]

Is it not telling that THAT was her instinctual response? While I don't have the patience nor energy to sort through ALL of those comments, I saw no one mention that it's interesting that her knee-jerk response was to call him a nigger. The fact that they see "white bitch" is comparable to "nigger" shows just how clueless they are.

[dyvinesweetness]

And then she calls that her experience with "racism??!" .........=/

[keeni84]

Looks like another one goes to stupidentries

[alaskan_blue]

Are you saying what he did wasn't racest?

[dyvinesweetness]

He can't be racist. He can be ignorant (which he clearly was), prejudiced (which he more than certainly was), discriminatory, but he wasn't racist because he is not in the position to be racist. Him calling you a "white bitch" didn't result in you systematically being denied access funds, housing, employment opportunities. The weight behind his words was enough to get HIM carried out the store (appropriately). That shows he has no power.

[alaskan_blue]

Oh. My. God. So now, you're saying that black people CAN'T be racist? Bullshit.

[dyvinesweetness]

Congrats. You just got your first lesson in True Racism 101: What the system won't teach me. AND I won't charge!

[alaskan_blue]

It's not worth anything anyway. :/

[dyvinesweetness]

Because YOU set the price, right?

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[alaskan_blue]

Oh great, are you going to launch into "A History of Black Oppression at the Hands of the Evil White Man" now?

[animeg3282]

Oh noes. Somebody didn't lie to your ass. Dude, just because you're white doesn't mean we gotta lie. You ain't any better than us, nor are your hurt feelings worth more than the lives that have been lost through white racism. You can't go crying racism if you want to ignore the struggles of poc.

[dyvinesweetness]

And she says it sarcastically. That's the funny part.

[alaskan_blue]

Because I'm sick and tired of people trying to use that argument.

[animeg3282]

But it's the truth. The whole society ain't against you. It's just that one guy. We have to deal with bullshit for our whole lives. You even comparing this to real racism insults all people of color everywhere.

[alaskan_blue]

Demeaning someone because of their skin color is racism. No matter WHAT the color happens to be.

[animeg3282]

You don't get it do you? There's a huge difference between a black person saying 'cracker' which just hurts your ego, and say, police officers murdering people in the street, people getting shitty health care on a systematic basis, people having poison dumped in their neighborhood..WHICH KILLS PEOPLE. You can't apporpiate the word racism when it suits you and then ignore the actual racism going on.