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This is worth thinking about.https://youtu.be/_JxbjvvpDNQ
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What Kat says about being perceived as radical & irrational no matter what she says really rings true. Like how in 2017 Franchesca Ramsey would make these videos taking care to always be positive & smiling, but anti-SJWtube would still find a way to frame her as angry & offended.
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Whiteness, like maleness, grants you a degree of presumed rationality . A black creator can say "police brutality is a problem," while a white creator says "all cops are bastards," and somehow the black creator is still perceived as more militant.
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That's literally the situation in LeftTube & related communities, where I see mostly white voices saying "revolution now, punch Nazis, ACAB"—presumably because they *can* say those things without being perceived as hysterical & dangerous to the same extent as non-white radicals.
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I also think it's easier for white creators to perform this tedious ritual of "empathizing" with racists, which is apparently the holy grail of discourse & one of the main things I find myself praised for doing—never mind that I haven't done a video on race in more than a year.
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At this point I would simply love to turn over the whole discussion of race to non-white creators. But of course that would require audiences to stop hand-wringing about the feelings of racists and actually listen to POC. Are we ready for that?
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Are you making a video response/addendum to/for Kat's video? Or are you wondering if other folks of color should step up and chime in instead?
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Have you read Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister? She has some excellent thoughts about this phenomenon and the general social dynamics around race and gender in activist circles. I definitely recommend it.
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