In related news, the London taxi booking app is to get a "no talk about Brexit" button.https://twitter.com/JoshAJHall/status/1128977052521123840 …
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he wasn't even white, which made it even odder.
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I mean you need even non-white people to buy into white supremacy for it to work.

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yes. For white people, white supramacy can often seem abstract so it can be surprising (to us) when we meet more overt examples. As a college student in Florida, I worked at a grocery store as a bagger. I helped an older woman take bags out to her car. At her car, with no one >
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> else around, she tried to tip me & said "I'm so glad that there's still a few white bag boys." (I was the only white bagger working that day). I was floored. When I told the other baggers what happened, they looked at me like I was nuts: as in, "You don't know where you live?">
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>...or, as Atticus says at the end of Lovecraft Country, "You think I don't know what country I live in? I know. We all do. We always have. *You're* the one who doesn't understand."
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Sad but true.

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Yeah. *Not* having to think about these things on a daily basis is an *immense* privilege.
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Indeed. Hence "When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression".
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