A lot of people arguing that if class were "merely another identity" then that means "if we just thought about it differently it would go away" As though there's any form of "identity-based" oppression for which that actually is truehttps://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1335848556096270338 …
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It *can be* personal and emotive, sure Just like class can result in "classism", in someone getting pissed off and yelling "You worthless peon, do you know who I am?" because they're a CEO and the other person is a retail worker But it doesn't *need* that to exist
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This is the whole "I don't have a racist bond in my body" thing White people talk like the fact that they've never thought hateful thoughts about a Black person, they've never said the N-word, etc means they're "not racist" and racism has nothing to do with them
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"They think of racism as personal animus - it's a matter of white people getting pissed off, hateful, deciding they want to go fuck up some nonwhite people today" Though they willingly turn a blind eye when it does happen...
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Individualising racism is a way of making it invisible. It's literally racist! "I was nice to an Asian once, I can't be racist" It does nothing but deflect and make life less safe for marginalised people
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