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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I will say this: It is absolutely infuriating that it is up to minorities to figure out the best way to point out racist shit they experience to fragile white people. White people do racist shit (whether it's intentionally racist or whether it is the more "polite" type of racism--whatever that means) that results in serious problems and minorities have to massage the message in such a way that white people don't feel like they're being accused of being racist for them to even listen. That shit is absolutely infuriating. Especially when we are all trying to figure out the best way to tackle the problems facing uneducated, ignorant, white people who live in areas of the country with dying industries. We need to understand them and cater to them and help them, while they point at blacks and Mexicans and Muslims and gays and accuse us causing their problems.
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Some of this is about education and culture. High school history and literature classes that focus on white men as the normative, that view diversity as a paste-on afterthought instead of a fundamental truth. Movies and television that have only male heroes, and that depict every lead as white, even in stories coming out of radically different cultures.
Every idiot who insists Santa is white needs to learn that Christ spoken a Afro-Asiatic language and likely had a beautiful bronze sheen to his skin, and have a little tint applied to the images they worship.
