I imagine this is one of the nicest things about being white. While cross-cultural interaction does sometime contain a little resentment (theirs) or guilt (yours), people tend to assume you are: - reasonably intelligent - wealthy/sophisticated - worthy of respect or deference
As a White person, I think the best you can hope to do is find yourself a comfortably diverse subculture, learn their orthodoxies, and be careful not to broadcast too loudly (or at all) on other wavelengths
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This is why I can’t get *that* upset with my racist old piano teacher in Missouri for somehow getting more racist in the last decade She made the same choice as my progressive white friends in SF—find your bubble, then disengage And she had a lot less mobility than they did!
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The “culture war” turned Boomer tradcons into refugees, ideological outsiders Just a couple decades ago, they were the righteous mainstream, and now everyone is (somewhat justifiably) pointing the finger at them for our problems re: race, climate, business
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And even though I think her politics are selfish and unworkable beyond her narrow, homogeneous in-group— I still *like* my racist piano teacher, and she likes me too
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Anyway, 1. We live in a society 2. Love thy neighbor 3. Maybe the real racists were the friends we made along the way
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