“The problem is we don’t perceive it as racist”
At last, we agree. That is the problem, indeed. It’s called entitlement and privilege.
#zwartepiet https://twitter.com/GORESHlT/status/934703917019037698 …
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I think it's very interesting because we have similar things in Danish culture: blatantly racist behaviors that people will double down on when challenged because "we don't mean it as racist".
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I've had conversations with people, where we've talked about the word "neger", which is exactly what you would think it is. People say "oh, but it doesn't mean the same as the English equivalent".
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So we talk a bit about Danish involvement in slave trade, the word's origin and use in this context. In the end, I cannot argue with "well that's not how I mean it", which inevitably becomes their final argument.
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You may not mean it like that, dear friend, but that's still what it means. That's still the historical context of the word. How it originated, and how it was used to suppress. And we still see the effects of this suppression today.
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Saying "I'm not saying this to offend anyone" is denying that black people exist in your society. But they do. In Denmark and in the Netherlands.
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It is always harder to relate to (and hence be open towards) people we are not around, who have lived experiences we do not hear about. Not knowing or relating to their struggles is exactly what privilege is. So we, cis/het/white people, need to try harder.
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The slashes are because I don't know how many of those boxes you tick, btw,
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