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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
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Nope.
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Originally Posted by Adder
Apparently one where nobody told you you shouldn't be doing that the first two times...
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[Note, this is directed at no one specific.] So this might be weird coming from me, but some of this shit is just white person-bubble naiveté. The casual racism that comes from stereotypes cultivated from a complete lack of exposure and understanding, mixed with completely homogenous neighborhoods and a one-note perspective entertainment industry (fuck, society at large), creates a solid foundation of bullshit like this because there was only one voice ever being represented.
I grew up in the 70s all over the place and in the 80s in fucking NYC. I went to school in MN. The standard for how
everyone was viewed, discussed, judged, whatever, in all of these places, was a white person's. That perspective was everything, all the time. That's why people's skin color or culture or heritage or nationality was a costume that white people think they can wear for fun. It's why Bugs Bunny or Tintin could outsmart dark-skinned, big-lipped savages or why Speedy Gonzales' cousin was a walking stereotype of a lazy Mexican. It's why the girl and boy next door brings up a very specific picture of who that person is in your head to this day. It's why when you picture a doctor or lawyer or accountant in your head, it's always a white person. And why, when you hear, "thug," you picture a black man.* People of color have spent decades upon decades asking for this shit to change--to be respected--because of shit like this. The push-back is exhausting.
"How am I supposed to keep track of what you want to be called?"
"Ugh. I can't say anything anymore because of all this bullshit political correctness!"
"Don't be so sensitive all the time!"
"Now I have to worry about
micro-aggressions?"
This is all the same shit. Whenever people of color are like, "Hey. You think we can be treated the same as you guys?" white people lose their minds. The next time you hear someone talk about how overly-PC the world is or how stupid the concept of "woke" is or how new pronouns are so stupid, think about this shit. It's all related. It's all the same fucking shit.
But as a person of color, I'll take someone like Trudeau who has grown and seems to genuinely care very much about people of color and inclusion over the innumerable quiet assholes who fight for nothing but their wallets any day.
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*I was talking fantasy football the other day and the white dude who was talking about how guys who were holding out were thugs this and thugs that couldn't comprehend why what he was saying was the height of fucking racism. He probably thinks I'm overly sensitive because I walked straight the fuck away from him.
