2 ms·
You don't really understand how racism, misogyny, etc. works. It's prejudice against a class, and it's extraordinarily common for otherwise small-minded people
by 1_2__3 10y ago
You don't really understand how racism, misogyny, etc. works.
It's prejudice against a class, and it's extraordinarily common for otherwise small-minded people to befriend or get close to (and defend!) individual members of that class. That does not actually make them less racist, misogynistic, homophobic, etc. It just makes them a hypocrite.
"I can't be racist I have a black friend" is basically what you're saying, writ large.
- Houshalter 10y agoBut that's the problem with those labels, isn't it? There is no possible way for anyone to prove they aren't a racist/sexist/whatever. And yet it's very easy to accuse people of them. And the accusations are never about what they actually do or say. They are accusations that they have secret beliefs they don't talk about, as if anyone could possibly know that.