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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
So unless one is actively working to undo the status quo, one is racist. You realize this standard effectively renders almost everyone a racist. Who was the candidate who was going to upend the status quo last election? Nobody. Hillary was going to preserve the status quo. Trump lied about changing it and did none of what he promised.
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Jesus fucking Christ. You really only see shit in black and white, don't you? Both candidates would have kept an overwhelmingly racist system in place. The point is that one party fights any change to that system whatsoever tooth and fucking nail. The other party is at least attempting to make corrections.
No candidate exists that will upend the nature of this racist system. That's the beauty of systemic racism. It is not easily undone.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'd agree with that. But there are also people who are "race agnostic."
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No there aren't.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I've uncomfortably listened to numerous vile and bigoted jokes during my life because someone with power over me was telling them. The trade off there was conceding a paycheck to stand on principle. Does that make me an enabler? Maybe. But there were a whole lot of mitigating factors at play.
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? I don't understand the point of this response.
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