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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
This is what drives people of color insane. You can be presented with a string of racist, anti-Semitic bullshit and you will look at each, individually in the best possible light. You (and not just you) know it's racist. You know it's anti-Semitic. And yet you will twist yourself and your logic into knots to try to excuse or overlook it. It's fucking racist. She's a racist. Take the evidence in your face at face value.
This is done with everything from police violence to promotions at work to voting suppression to foreign policy to whatever. It is absolutely amazing to watch people break their back bending backwards trying to read something in the best light in order to say what is obviously racist might not be. Fuck outta here.
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See also listening to women about harassment and unequal treatment in the work place.
