When you relax the standard of whiteness/purity you can't tell the truth of your annoyance without seeming rude. So the slight accent that caused a slight miscommunication that you could have vented off in a socially acceptable way now grinds at you constantly.
There's (deep )buried truth under racist desires for 'purity'. That is, pure 'whiteness' immune of even the slightest impurity is necessary to remove the final vestiges of negative emotion. You can't get rid of light-light grey without calibrating to pure white.
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So the call to desensitize yourself is rightly opposed when sensitivity makes its case that it is important. And while its true that desensitization makes your more tolerant to others. It's also the pitch of a drug dealer who just wants to show you a good time.
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Sensitivity can only be reached in a state of trust and acceptance. Those who join racist groups often do so because they have not achieved the strength to be vulnerable. They never grew up. But... only because we designed a system where people only had dead-end jobs.
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That line to the future was cut when someone looked at someone else and thought 'My children deserve better than their children." And like a complex financial derivative, they failed to realize what would happen if everyone protected their children like this...
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This is what Love is. It feels like Stubborness and Stupidity and Selfishness. To Love is the same as to understand Love. That feeling you label as "Hate"? That's part of Love. That feeling you label as "Bad", that's also part of Love.
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Because Love is defined as that which brought us here. Sure there's Sex and Lust and Loyalty. But there's also War and Murder and Rape. Everything intertwining in a chaotic butterfly effect where there is no true cause and effect.
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We're fighting because we love each other. We hate because we called that fight Hate and tore it away from Love so that it could no longer be whole.
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