The redefinition of the word ‘racist’ freaks me out. We went through centuries of rationalizing it any way we could to finally figure out that ‘discrimination based on race’ was a horrible thing regardless of justification. But redefinition is just another justification! 1/
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I wonder how much of this comes from people being totally unable to empathize with evil. If you think evil is this other thing out there, done by monsters, something you’re never capable of, then you won’t guard against it in yourself - and this is exactly how atrocities happen.
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I know this well myself. I was raised evangelical Christian and went around calling gay people fags. I know what it’s like to believe a terrible thing - and from the inside, it feels like exactly the way you feel right now. It’s comfortable, justified, it makes the most sense.
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You should be just as wary and skeptical of yourself as you are of other people. You *are* other people.
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I was making a similar point recently (not specifically about racism)https://twitter.com/_wayneburkett/status/1350127264650780673?s=20 …
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Bravo!!! to this entire thread!!
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I've had black people treat me like shit literally because of my skin color. No, they're not enslaving me, but they're being racist. And dismissing their abuse as 'simply calling out white privilege' is really downplaying and dismissing the severity of what they're doing.
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Where are these arguments saying it’s ok to treat certain people like shit?
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