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A typical example of everyday racism, illustrating how & why White people who think they're Very Progressive are actually replicating White supremacy.
This weekend was the Sydney Writers Festival. I went to a session led by an Aboriginal woman w/ Black #women guests.
Thread.pic.twitter.com/XG2JWSUlrL
I'm sitting up the front on a table with a friend. A White woman sits beside me, ignores her male partner for the rest of the night. She has an oddity to acquire: me.
I'm polite. I say hello. Her first question: "Are you Aboriginal?"
No. I'm Peruvian. 
"Oh! Potatos!"pic.twitter.com/zxSzMEdUmJ
"How many varieties of potatoes do your people grow?"
Peru is famous for agriculture. But why do you think a White woman reduces this to "potatoes" 
, even though she says she's travelled through Peru? 
Why is it I've only had White people ask if I'm a "peasant"? 
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She's travelled through Latin America but cannot remember the names of any countries, even after I list them. She asks if I was born here. (She wants to dismiss me as Not Australian) She asks if I'll live here much longer, despite now knowing this is my home since childhoodpic.twitter.com/gIp3jtLL7F
She's getting visibly flustered. She says: "I think this is a great country. We have so much equality. Don't you think?" 
I say: It depends. For whom?
She starts babbling about refugees. "Terrible how they've been treated!"
Me: "Yes. WE'VE done them wrong."
Her: [squirms
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I do not make her feel like a "good" White person. I do not give her kudos for being at a panel by Black women. I am polite but I don't smile when she is ignorant. Finally she says: "I think we're very lucky to live here. Don't you agree?" She wants to put me in my place.pic.twitter.com/1hSlnyCzvx
Me: What do you mean by that? Lucky in comparison to what? [AUS has a myth that we're the "lucky country." This country is beautiful but our history is genocide & enslavement of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people. It is the White Australia policy. Not so lucky for all]pic.twitter.com/AnDn1paHr2
Now she's deeply flustered. She asks what I do. Me: I'm a sociologist. White woman [physically relaxes]: "Ah! Now I'm starting to get this!" The show starts. She can dismiss her discomfort due to my education. Maybe I'm just a smartiepants agitator. It's not her. It's me.pic.twitter.com/0anyiVwVf0
So she continues to move through the world thinking she's not contributing to racism. As so many White people do.
#POC navigate conversations like this w/ White people daily, alongside other forms of everyday racism (being followed in stores etc) and structural discrimination.pic.twitter.com/qztfxfv2Ca
Moral of the story: White people really need to think deeply about how they wield their Whiteness. No amount of books you read, shows you watch, or "poor refugees" you utter, you're likely making #POC uncomfortable at the least, or doing great harm at worst.
This is awful. Why can’t people just say ‘how are you doing today?’ It’s not that hard.
Yep; just be a normal human. White people do ask "How you going?" - of other White people. They never grill other White people (where are you from? Where are you really from? Where are your parents from?). They do it to POC because it's about othering.
Great thread. Sorry you had to/ have to put up with this. And kudos on your gif game.
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