In ye olden days hating someone of a stigmatized race or culture was THE SAME THING as hating the stigmatized job they stereotypically do That's how jobs worked -- that's why they did those jobs
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And the process of dehumanization is always -- ALWAYS -- easier if someone is defined as a different race from you That's what race is FOR That's what race IS
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That's why these fucking "Asian massage parlors" doing sex work under the table EXIST -- that's EXACTLY WHY white men like this feel comfortable patronizing them but would be skeeved out by buying sex from someone "who could be a girl you went to school with"
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The idea that "Oh, he's a fucked up sex addict, and Asian massage parlors are what was available to him, so it had nothing to do with race" is SO STUPID INCREDIBLY STUPID It's like you all said the words "structural racism" as this magic phrase you never tried to understand
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If racism only described to your personal disparate interactions between two people with the exact same socioeconomic status and profession then like 90% of racism wouldn't be racism That's the motive behind people who push the line of "I don't see race"
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"If a PoC came into my office as a fellow lawyer in my field I would treat them the same as all my white colleagues The way I treat people in professions I don't respect who only HAPPEN to be disproportionately PoC has NOTHING TO DO with race"
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Well, shit, anyone from any time period could fucking say that "It's not my fault all my fellow European aristocrats are also white Christians, I didn't set up that system In some hypothetical situation like Shakespeare's Othello I'd be totally not racist"
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