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.
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That's it, isn't it - we're all expected to stay quiet, smile and answer their ignorant questions and comments only in a narrow way that doesn't ruffle their worldview.
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Yep, or affirm the essential goodness of their nation. This guy was a well-travelled impartial individualist with no collective affiliations (by his own estimation) yet when I pointed out the problems with his liberal democracy he got really fragile
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You’d think by his reaction that I was proposing a caliphate lol, he became fragile, then defensive, then testy thereafter
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And I know many PoC in the sunken place who are afraid of these reactions and say things/act in ways to avoid them
End of conversation
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No. I'm Peruvian.
"Oh! Potatos!"
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"? 
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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