In medieval times there was no such thing as "hating moneylenders as a profession" without hating Jews Any more than in the old South it made sense to say "He oppresses people who are *enslaved* but not because they're Black, just because of their legal status"
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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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Also beyond *everything else* Do alcoholics regularly shoot up bars? That's not how addiction works!
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There are a few interesting threads out there on this from people who study evangelical purity culture
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