if you have a story to tell that helps makes sense of the world right now, please get in touch (my email’s in bio)https://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelysanders/how-to-pitch-essays-to-buzzfeed-reader …
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and NB this is deliberately vague but basically, if you’re a white american citizen, think extra hard before you hit send
an addendum for anyone confused by this: i mean it purely & only literally, as in, think about what you have to say before you say it
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@rachelysanders Yet, you included the "white people" caveat.pic.twitter.com/ojoIQ7hO3x -
hahahaha!! Sign off, Rachel, just for today....You can't recover from this..
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You really should've thought harder before you sent this, Joe.
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evergreen tweet imo
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It's so cool to single out groups of people for extra discrimination. High five ladies!
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Odd they so often do exactly what they accuse others of.
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as opposed to everybody else, who should just say whatever
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Shouldn't that apply to everyone? Why do you single out white people?
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Only white males can be asked to think. Asking anyone else to think is unfair. AND That's how you get Rachel.
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Rachel is engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations. People of color need not think.
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But people of color should *not* think about what they have to say?
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does this advice apply to white Jewish people? Do you have a handy color palete swatch? Do Jewish people get a separate one?
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and how about whites who converted? White LGBTQ? White atheists?
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What about white people who don't believe they're white, like Sean King & Rachel Dolezal?
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cause they dumb honkys lol. Seriously, I have no idea. Ugh.
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so non-whiteUScitizens don't need to think about what they have to say ... got it
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so only "white people" need think about what stories they share? Why only white people? Expound please.
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