What race theorists discuss as whiteness, or how White people perpetuate racism: "I’ve become less interested in the notion of being White"
White Aussie Michael Cathcart speaking to Black American Paul Beatty on racism, after Sorry Day. https://overland.org.au/2017/05/just-a-person-race-and-the-australian-literati/ … #WhitePrivilegepic.twitter.com/HW0PiLh1yq
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"So I think of myself just as a person." White people, especially in AUS where we rarely address race, distance themselves from racism
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"The majority of Australians as they search for a way of being neither Black nor White but of sharing a common humanity." Only WP think this
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Race theorists & commentators who are AUS
#POC show how White AUS have little understanding of racism here but are shocked by USA examples -
As a sociologist of colour for example, I'm asked by White people (academics, media) to comment on racism in discussions led by White ppl...
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... and those same White people jump into a discussion about racism without a definition of its structural basis & broader social context...
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...so that means conversation I'm brought into starts with presumption that racism is just "some bad apples" excusing White society as whole
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When moderators/speakers ask
#POC to comment on racism, they do so without thinking that they should consider their place in race & racism -
This shows how entire discussion on race and racism is framed through Whiteness; it's not meant to disrupt social order for White AUS.
End of conversation
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It's also the fact that White people only want to think about racism if it's "positive." "Most Aussies believe in diversity!" Ahhh nope.
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Yep. Also difference between multiculturalism (all cultures have equity) & cosmopolitanism (I like "Asian" food but they need to assimilate)
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Thanks, yet again, for your work, and for sharing this,
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