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Whiteness is the process by which White people's race is both normalised and "invisible" - White people don't question how race benefits them
Like when WP liken any form of inequality (gender/ disability/ sexuality) to racism
This erases #POC from the issue WP are elevating
White people use racism as a prop - to showboat indignation at a specific experience or event that currently affects their consciousness, but they do not question how likening one form of discrimination to racism is evidence they do NOT understand racism (& thus contribute to it)
Racism is systemic oppression based on race that affects life chances. It is embedded in institutions, evidenced in the low number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other #POC who are in positions of power, how racial minorities have poorer health outcomes, etc
Institutional racism is reproduced in everyday interactions, such as when White women say an incident of sexism is "like" racism. Or when WP say ableism is "worse" than racism. When White queer ppl compared marriage equality to racial segregation. All this erases race AND racism
Whiteness means White people use racism to virtue signal 1) racism is both a yardstick for "the worst" discrimination, but also whatever White people care about is even WORSE than racism 2) their opponents are like "racists" ie the "worst." But they as individual WP are "good"
White people who use this strategy ("racism is Bad. But THIS is Worse") are part of the institutional cogs that keep racism ticking along 1) they haven't educated themselves on racism 2) think they're exempt 3) hurt racial minorities within their communities by erasing race
Declaring oneself to be "Not Racist," is NOT the same as anti-racism The former is a subjective title Whiteness invented to escape changing the status quo The latter, anti-racism, is active transformation. Fighting racial inequality, both at individual & systemic levels.
Finally the obvious reason why "This is like racism" is racist (or "You wouldn't say this about a #POC" and its variations) is because, at its heart, it's White people claiming racism is over. Something else is worse & more deserving of attention
Whiteness manufactures this lie.
Not sure what this responded to, but as a queer Aboriginal person who's experienced compounded disadvantage,the real issue is when our multiple inextricable diversities aren't acknowledged by non-Indigenous people.For us,they aren't silos of disadvantage to be treated separately.
Thanks and agreed - this is the point of my thread, which is about the fact that racial oppression can't be separated from other forms of discrimination (intersectionality). So racism can't be used as a way to emphasise that other inequalities are 'like' or 'worse' than racism
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