& @mikebarnicle both of you: your friend believes that Hispanics need to assimilate more. Do you think that's true? Esp vis-a-vis white immigrants? Do you think all racists lack empathy? Do you think you have perfect knowledge of how he thinks about, treats Hispanics?
Tom Brokaw isn't capable of saying something racist. He's one of the most empathetic people I've ever met.https://twitter.com/mikebarnicle/status/1089985282492035072 …
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The fact that you, Sally, think that because you know how he treats you and how he's behaved in front of you, a wealthy powerful white woman, is indicative of how he must behave w everyone is solipsism at best. At worst, incredible arrogance.
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I think as his statement went it's not the *worst* you'd hear as a Hispanic person. But you have no business speaking to whether he's racist or not. How the hell would you know? How would you even see it? You wouldn't.
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Thank you, Elizabeth. It's also the height of gaslighting to tell us (people of Hispanic & latinx ancestry) that he isn't capable of doing something we all heard & saw him do.
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Yup, we're pretty good at sniffing mentiras... Like... Yours...
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Mine? Or Sally's?
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Sadly, racism doesn’t care if you’re empathetic or not, because racism isn’t always or even usually abject cruelty. In its most common, banal form, it’s simply behavior that upholds and reinforces the notion that some people are lesser and should be treated accordingly.
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In fact, what disturbs me most about Brokaw’s comments is that I believe he didn’t think he’d said anything racist at all. I believe most people go through life thinking they’re not being racist because they see it as a matter of decorum and not power dynamics.
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Yes. Exactly.
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Imagine if you cared more about fighting white supremacy than you did about protecting a man who pressured his colleagues into having to say he wasn’t a predator.https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-2018-nbc-staffers-reportedly-felt-forced-to-1525190080-htmlstory.html …
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Yup, she’s just more focused on enabling racism.
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Well that is some highly compelling logic that totally correlates with how racism actually works but now you need to tell us whether he has any black friends, or we'll never know for sure.
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You know who prefers to treat racism as a matter of individual conscience and not as an encompassing, structuring social force? Racists. That’s who.
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I'm sure you can accept that the kindest person you know can say something in anger. I'm sure you can accept that the wisest person you know can still say something in ignorance. So why is racism from an empathetic person unthinkable for you? Why is that the bridge too far?
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Great way to put it, thank you.
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Sally, we're all capable of saying and being racist. We have to own that or we never make it better. We can't be so weak spirited that we can't look ourselves in the mirror.
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exactly.....and people can’t be so focused on their friendships or alliances to go on autopilot with denials.
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