Back then, to me it meant “being alive to structural iniquities that lead to black kids getting arbitrarily executed by cops” Now it means “power-tripping sociopaths trying to leverage mob-control powers to take over sclerotic institutions”
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This playbook is admittedly much easier for non-whites to use. The reason you and I are able to get away with saying even as much as we do is that we're not white. It's also why Andrew Yang was able to play the forgiveness card against the pressure.
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The substantive core of the idea of microaggression is actually easy enough to stick to if you're basically kind, without using the enforcement language. That construct is expansive, but hard to enforce as well, since it relies on installing hi-res radars in designated victims.
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Came to say "its an arms race", beat me to it :)
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