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Aella
@Aella_Girl
There's something about what's going on in the world that triggers something more visceral in me. I feel more afraid, angry, tribal. I am absolutely terrified of how I see everyone responding. It's not really what they say as much as the frames they use to say it.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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As in I agree that black lives matter, that the police are freaking terrifying, that racism is bad, etc. But the bad frame uses religious style concepts - the total depravity of "you're in a racist system", the lurking Satan of "if you don't totally buy in you're racist"
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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I mean it depends on definitions obvs. But when I think systemic I think about racism at the current system level, which I think barely exists, if at all? I guess there's stuff like it's harder for Asians to get into Harvard because of actual Harvard policies.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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Yeah I definitely agree current poverty probably exists mostly due to systemic racism of the past. I also do think that some levels of sentencing are actually currently racist on the systemic level!
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