Yep. There are two competing beliefs about what will end racism. 1) Focusing intensely on race to become alert to how racism operates on many implicit levels. 2) Treating race as irrelevant to normalise evaluating people individually & make casual racism socially unacceptable.https://twitter.com/IonaItalia/status/998068548156166144 …
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@HPluckrose I prefer option 2, but without poisoning the well with "casual racism."1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Well, casual racism did and does exist. It has become much less prevalent because people frowned on it. Of course, people have made false claims about what constitutes casual racism.
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I have a black friend and a jewish friend, and I am german (with dab of Cherokee). Do you know how many slave, holocaust, indian and irish jokes fly around when we hang out with each other? Who defines "casual" racism, and how is it distinguished from friendly assholery?
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I don't think that's as difficult as you make it sound to reasonable people. In the same way, I am sure you can tell the difference between a joke about white people not being able to dance between friends and the current rhetoric about all white people being evil.
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