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[seeingred]

"Many folks seem to define racism as unjustified prejudice. Most folks feel that their own prejudices are fully justified. Thus, the observed prevalence of folks declaring their racist actions to not be racist, QED."
- sanguinity, here.

"The bar for racism has been raised so high that one need be a card-carrying member of the Nazi Party to qualify."
- Slate

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[jvowles]

Re:Bingo

[seeingred]

If the original poster doesn't want sexist arseholes wasting everyone's time in her blog, I can't say I blame her.

That said, it is true that the bingo boards and so on can act as Get Out Of Jail Free cards, implying that POC are simply never wrong - with the further implication that there's a single, monolithic, correct POC viewpoint, which is of course a nonsense.

I think it's wise for any sympathetic White person to accept that POC have first-hand knowledge and experiences that we don't have and indeed can't have. Our gut reaction to things, our assessment of what's offensive and what isn't, are the product of a lifetime of experiences and assumptions which not everyone shares.

[jvowles]

Of course, that in turn can fall neatly and recursively into "feeling that our own prejudices are fully justified"...

[seeingred]

Sorry, anon, not quite clear on your meaning. What can fall into feeling our own prejudices are justified?