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>It's OK to teach and learn about how racist people made racist systems. Read: your ancestors are racist, and made a racist system for you >You don't need to
by remarkEon 5y ago
>It's OK to teach and learn about how racist people made racist systems.
Read: your ancestors are racist, and made a racist system for you
>You don't need to feel guilty, unless you are out here actively supporting racist systems?
Read: here comes the guilt trip
>If you're trying to use the social privileges that come with being a white man in America to dismantle racist structures, then you're doing great! If you're tried and don't want to do that work, ok, understandable: just don't throw in your two cents I'd you see other people doing this intense labor.
Read: there it is.
At some point I figured people would realize this Kafkaesque formulation really turns people off. Any disagreement with the premise - any at all - and you are now required to retreat to claiming you're not a "racist" in front of someone who has set the rhetorical boundaries where such a claim is rejected outright, always. I actually think that's really the point, and it's nothing more than a new and pathological way to bully someone.