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> I don't lose out on jobs...have a hard time finding housing...don't feel excluded from civic institutions because of it... Incorrect. As a white dude, have

> I don't lose out on jobs...have a hard time finding housing...don't feel excluded from civic institutions because of it... Incorrect. As a white dude, have you ever tried walking into a ghetto? Please try it out tonight. If you believe your stance is correct, you shall experience no racism and no harm will come to you. As a white dude...ever been to prison? Please, go and visit. If you think there's no racism against white people, you should be able to fit right in with all the black people in prison. As a white dude....ever tried to buy drugs? You'll certainly be paying much higher prices than my black and hispanic brethren. Honestly - where do you get off speaking for my race? I'm not a victim and I control my own experience. You're trying to take that away from me by making me a "protected class". The worst thing you could possibly do is to give me special treatment.

SwellJoe 10y ago
Honestly - where do you get off speaking for my race? I'm not a victim and I control my own experience. You're trying to take that away from me by making me a "protected class". I'm just trying to speak to my fellow white folks about stuff they often get wrong. Apologies for stepping on your toes and driving in your lane. It wasn't my intention to tell you anything about your life or experience.
- Yetanfou 10y ago
  Now all you need to do is apologize to [your] fellow white folks for lecturing them about 'stuff they often get wrong', otherwise you'd still be treating people different based on their skin colour. Why not just drop the whole subject of separating people based on the colour of their skin or hair or whatever other innate property (gender, sexual orientation, laterality...) and treat people as... people? Don't talk to 'your fellow (people_of_whatever_colour|gender|laterality|...)', talk to people who share a political opinion or religion or field of interest.
  - SwellJoe 10y ago
    I disagree with that assessment, based on reading a whole lot of people of color's writing on the subject of solving racism. I'm doing the best I can in the time I have on earth to undo racism and the harm it causes. I don't always get it right, but being colorblind is not always the right answer.

SwellJoe 10y ago

Honestly - where do you get off speaking for my race? I'm not a victim and I control my own experience. You're trying to take that away from me by making me a "protected class". I'm just trying to speak to my fellow white folks about stuff they often get wrong. Apologies for stepping on your toes and driving in your lane. It wasn't my intention to tell you anything about your life or experience.

Yetanfou 10y ago
Now all you need to do is apologize to [your] fellow white folks for lecturing them about 'stuff they often get wrong', otherwise you'd still be treating people different based on their skin colour. Why not just drop the whole subject of separating people based on the colour of their skin or hair or whatever other innate property (gender, sexual orientation, laterality...) and treat people as... people? Don't talk to 'your fellow (people_of_whatever_colour|gender|laterality|...)', talk to people who share a political opinion or religion or field of interest.
- SwellJoe 10y ago
  I disagree with that assessment, based on reading a whole lot of people of color's writing on the subject of solving racism. I'm doing the best I can in the time I have on earth to undo racism and the harm it causes. I don't always get it right, but being colorblind is not always the right answer.