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You push back on everything. Constantly. Incessantly.
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Part of that is reflexive, personality driven. I tend to do that here.
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When we finally make a little progress, it's because a white woman wrote a book saying the same things from a white person's perspective. Then you write a post about how black people should outline a day in their lives.
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That was a takeaway I had after reading Diangelo. White people don't understand what it's like to live as a black person because they never listen and black people are exhausted. But a black person writing a book just coldly outlining his or her everyday experience and where racism occurs in the most mundane of circumstances struck me as a really good device. This was meant constructively.
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Again, you need to understand that someone asking you to take a look at why you're saying the things you're saying does not mean you are a racist in the sense that you're taking it. Inspect what you're saying and be cognizant that some of it might be colored with preconceived notions.
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I understand that. I grasp the broad use of "racism." My frustration was with Adder's immediate race to it as the main explanation, npi. You cite it where you suspect it is present, but I notice, you don't immediately announce it is the sole or even a main cause of something. Adder runs to it immediately.
I have realized this -- I am terribly and intentionally bigoted in one regard: Towards Adder. I can have a back and forth with you, but he irritates me to no end.
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If it's not, make your case. But the point is to be able to have a conversation without turning the whole thing on its head by focusing on the fact that you think someone else thinks your racist.
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With you, I have, and I'm glad you compelled me to read the book. It's going to be very hard for me not to get massively irritated with him, however. The same thing happens when he and I discuss economics. He and I should simply agree not to interact except in regard to jokes.
