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[i_dreamed_i_was]

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[captain_brad]

yup. pretty much says it all.

Someone in debunkingwhite once wrote, and I found to be true...

[i_dreamed_i_was]

that the idea of racist = bad/ignorant/stupid person or racism = individual's bad/ignorant/stupid action is so pervasive among white folks that it leads to this idea that anything you might say about POC is not racist as long as it is "rational." (The fact that "rationality" is so highly subjective, in myriad ways, is not addressed.) So... of course it's not "racist" if I clutch my purse when a black man walks toward me on the street-- it's just "rational." It's not even about that-- it's about class, and black people are more likely to be poor, and poor people are more likely to rob folks, therefore it's not racist, QED, etc.

Re: Someone in debunkingwhite once wrote, and I found to be true...

[captain_brad]

Yeah, and this idea some white folks seem to have that they're in on the Great POC Inside Joke, and thus allowed to talk all the shit they want because surely POC know they're not really racist.

[neverguessed]

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