White people can't tell POC apart or our races
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Replying to @ColleenLavelle1 @helpmeskeletor
"Where are you from?" "What are you?" Will lump you into wrong group, don't care about answer, just want to classify POC as "not one of us."
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Replying to @OtherSociology @ColleenLavelle1
And we're all monolithic too. POC proximity used as a shield against any accusations of racism.
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Replying to @helpmeskeletor @ColleenLavelle1
Also don't forget that White people aren't a race. They're just people.
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Replying to @OtherSociology @helpmeskeletor
Yet they like to remind POC they're not all the same, they have a rich European history
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Replying to @ColleenLavelle1 @helpmeskeletor
WP are special individuals, each more exceptional than last, but POC are to blame for every single thing every person of their race ever did
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Replying to @OtherSociology @helpmeskeletor
Yes, and most of us come from culture where family & community are important we feel the shame when our own do something wrong. But we are
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expected to apologise and speak out constantly against wrongs, that WP don't bat an eye lid when they do something wrong.
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Replying to @ColleenLavelle1 @helpmeskeletor
Yes! WP don't like when same community values expressed as cultural pride/strength. WP never accountable for damage caused by Whiteness.
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Replying to @OtherSociology @ColleenLavelle1
Complicity is for POC. Responsiblity for historical violence too. And they'll use POC to defend their newfound peacefullness (Ghandi quotes)
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Ghandi is "one of the good ones." Completely ignore complex political history of moral disobedience. Plus WP called him a terrorist at time
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Replying to @OtherSociology @helpmeskeletor
Yes and pull his & MLK quotes without understanding what they had to fight or what they were really speaking about
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Replying to @ColleenLavelle1 @helpmeskeletor
Ignore MLK's stance on violence & "I have been gravely disappointed with the White moderate..who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice"
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