I agree those tweets are bad. But it’s not a good look when white people jump at EVERY chance to say “look, other people are racist too!” It looks a bit defensive.
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I agree that the hiring doesn’t look good though. And the “counter-trolling” defence is a tad weak.
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You wouldn’t use the words “defensive” or “doesn’t look good” about a white person tweeting such things about black people, so why make those excuses for her? There are racists of every ethnicity.
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Of course. But I’d argue the sheer weight of institutionalised prejudice towards non-whites outweighs the salient examples that we leap to whenever we get the chance. Why can’t we accept and let some cases go? It’s like we are desperate to spread the blame. Why?
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The notion that you can only be racist because of “weighted institutionalised prejudice” meaning some suffer more racism than other is simply moronic. Racism is racism, as it uses stereotypes to justify a belief that all that group do/act according to said stereotype.
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Exactly. Racism isn’t just evidence that someone is nasty, it’s also evidence that they’re stupid. On both grounds, why would anyone want to hire a racist?
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I think you’ve both missed my point. Her comments are repellent. I’m just wondering WHY we are so eager to jump every time we get to point at a minority being prejudicial. It speaks to a sense of resentment.
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No it doesn’t.
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Wow . you missed a trick there Julia, surely you could have planted some fake news and said Jeremy Corbyn has watched Roseanne Barr on the telly, which obviously to you right wing people , would make Jeremy Corbyn a racist too
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No one has to bother making up fake news about Corbyn and his anti-semitism. It’s there for all to see.
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The pernicious idea that only white people can be racist because it’s a matter of power and privilege is itself racist. It assumes that no non-white group has ever been in such a position, which is historically inaccurate but infers universal inferiority.
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Julia speaking complete sense, as per usual.
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Ha ha ha
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What’s so amusing?
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The fact you don't know is even funnier



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Why don’t you educate me?
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An impossible task I'm afraid bye bye



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Bye.
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