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What norm, habit, type of person, or 'common' experience that you consciously agree exists, there's evidence that it does and other people say it does, but you've never actually seen it happen yourself? Bonus points if deep down your gut just doesn't believe it.

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What's your answer,

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...racism? I don't think I've ever seen anybody being racist, minus my parents.

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good fucking lord, you really seem to suffer from habitual contempt towards the systematically oppressed. How does it help you to come on here and deny their struggle? Just curious. You honestly think racism doesn't exist? For real? This edgelord bullshit is so goddamn exhausting

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Do you actually think that I think racism doesn't exist? Do you actually think I feel contempt for the oppressed? Like, if you imagine being me, and empathizing with me, is that the world you think I inhabit?

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Aella

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Oct 23, 2019

to be extremely clear, I absolutely believe racism exists. I have also referenced this before in other areas of my writing, taking the existence of racism as a definite reality.

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My suspicion is that you have a prior that people who say they haven't experienced racism personally are actually secretly doing some sort of racism denial, and so when you see me say this your flag of "racism denial!" comes up.

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But at least for me things aren't so black and white. Life is really, really complicated, and I think it's absolutely possible for "I haven't seen racism" and "racism exists" to co-exist. We can get really curious as to the reasons about why that is!

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For example maybe I don't register it because I'm white. Maybe I'm in a bubble of non-racist people. Maybe we mean different things by the word racism. If we don't immediately accuse me of being a racist-denier, then we can be curious about what's going on under the hood.

10:39 PM · Oct 23, 2019

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No, “racism” does not exist. What does exist is ethnocentrism and people not liking other people because of the group they belong to based on experiences or what they’ve been told, etc. But “racism” is a sham. Within Nigeria, tribes hate each other. Is that racism?

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Just because a word exists and can be found with the definition and dictionaries, doesn’t mean it legitimately corresponds to something in the world. There may be things in the world that are related to it, but that doesn’t mean the word is legitimate.