(It is also true that white people who are “involved in antiracism” can and often do interpret critique of their own complicity as an attack on their sense of being a good person)
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The problem is not that antiracists aim to make white people feel “guilty” - the problem is that white people who aren’t involved in antiracism often interpret discomfort as “being called a bad person”, which they in turn weaponize to shut down antiracist discourse and policies.
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If mentioning structural racism or white supremacy makes a white person personally feel “bad” or “guilty”, that’s not my aim but it’s also not my problem. That’s a problem for white people to wrestle with and answer: “Why do I feel uncomfortable acknowledging reality?” Good luck!
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Ideally, everyone should be uncomfortable with collective suffering and injustice. Inquiring into your discomfort can be a path toward compassion and commitment to dismantling unjust systems. Or you can weaponize your discomfort to shut down constructive change.. Your choice.
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(I say it’s “your choice” but the fact of the matter is that influential white billionaires are spending lots of $$ to convince other white people that the mere mention of words like “systemic racism”, “white supremacy” and even “equity” constitutes violence. Again: Good luck!)
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Yes! You summarized in one tweet how white journalists in San Francisco continue to perpetuate white supremacy while defending the establishment. Failures to correct published inaccurate stories are as bad as publishing racist election disinformation in the first place.https://twitter.com/ShahidForChange/status/1417732353514819584 …
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Isn't this what's fueling Glenn Youngkin's candidacy in Virginia? White parents don't want the truth about racism taught in school because they think it means the teacher is telling their kids that they are "bad."
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They don’t actually “think” that. They’re just “saying” that. They “know” better.
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Got into a BIG argument with some of my family in Texas about this. They consumed the narrative that CRT is about making white people feel bad about being white.
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Its not a question of feeling bad about being white but we should not feel "good" about being white either
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the problem is that it kind of is. our feelings are what we weaponize against people of color when we feel insecure about our whiteness, consciously or unconsciously figuring out how to manage these feelings is imperative to avoiding that harm and reclaiming a sense of self--
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