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You appear to be redefining racism as "willing to agree with me when I assert everything is racist". You aren't naming any specific problem you saw with actual

You appear to be redefining racism as "willing to agree with me when I assert everything is racist". You aren't naming any specific problem you saw with actual racism, only that people react badly when you claim it's everywhere. But as you use words like micro-aggressions we can safely assume you're the type of person who led to lists like this: https://twitter.com/titaniamcgrath/status/1281023987242487808?lang=en https://twitter.com/titaniamcgrath/status/128102398724248780... Don't conflate woke identity politics with racism. They are fundamentally different. British people are right to reject your America-centric obsession with finding racism in everything, given the UK's excellent track record.

aaomidi 5y ago
> Don't conflate woke identity politics with racism. They are fundamentally different. British people are right to reject your America-centric obsession with finding racism in everything, given the UK's excellent track record. Again, this is what I mean by British people refusing to engage with my experiences as a brown person living in UK. Building up a strawman, then assuming I'm part of that strawman, then dismissing it does no one any good. In Primary school in UK I (and all the non-white) kids were segregated in seating. I was always assigned seating near other brown kids. When out shopping with my parents, in smaller stores we were "stalked" to make sure we didn't steal anything. This did not happen to our white friends that we asked to keep an eye out for this behavior. In school plays, the non-white kids were always assigned the side-roles and the "peasant" roles. E.g. I was assigned to be a "chimney cleaner", which involved the makeup people spreading black ink all over myface and essentially making me do blackface. But sure, this is just woke politics and you know everything about our lives.

aaomidi 5y ago

> Don't conflate woke identity politics with racism. They are fundamentally different. British people are right to reject your America-centric obsession with finding racism in everything, given the UK's excellent track record. Again, this is what I mean by British people refusing to engage with my experiences as a brown person living in UK. Building up a strawman, then assuming I'm part of that strawman, then dismissing it does no one any good. In Primary school in UK I (and all the non-white) kids were segregated in seating. I was always assigned seating near other brown kids. When out shopping with my parents, in smaller stores we were "stalked" to make sure we didn't steal anything. This did not happen to our white friends that we asked to keep an eye out for this behavior. In school plays, the non-white kids were always assigned the side-roles and the "peasant" roles. E.g. I was assigned to be a "chimney cleaner", which involved the makeup people spreading black ink all over myface and essentially making me do blackface. But sure, this is just woke politics and you know everything about our lives.