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My favorite part of it is that insofar as the objectors identify themselves, they're (of course) white. From the OPs description, although they don't say so exp
by dhosek 5y ago
My favorite part of it is that insofar as the objectors identify themselves, they're (of course) white. From the OPs description, although they don't say so explicitly, it's clear that they're Black. Long history¹ in this country of white folks telling Black folks what's appropriate for Black folks to say or do.
1. And let's not fool ourselves thinking that because I've used the word "history" that it's not still very much the case.
- kbenson 5y agoI'm not sure you can get much more "middlebrow dismissive" than assuming that people objecting are white and the people they are objecting to are black and therefore it must be for similar reasons to why white people objected to black people in the past for bad reasons, so you can just ignore them. Importantly, even if you're right in a lot of the instances, it doesn't actually move the discussion forward in a useful way because it paints with too broad a brush and encourages others to do the same.