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The Official Racism Thread Social • Page 99

Discussion in 'Politics Forum' started by Melody Bot, Mar 13, 2015.

  1. crunchprank

    crunchprank.net Prestigious

    Curious if someone could help me help a friend of mine. Essentially the issue is, is that they explicitly think they're not racist, however they make comments that are obviously stereotypical of the race their making their comments toward. The problem is, they continue to justify this by stating something along the lines of "I'm not being racist or stereotypical, it's just my experience with them". Does anyone have any sort of documentation or educational materials that specifically cover issues such as this, where a person's experience with a certain identity can be vastly differ than another?
     
  2. David87

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  3. Richter915

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    When that came up on Twitter I thought it was going to be a joke article from the onion.
     
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  4. thenewmatthewperry

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    This is the most salient example I have ever seen of a micro-aggression.

    ‪The dismissive and condescending tone she interrupts him with is an excellent example of white fragility. She can’t handle that a black person is intelligent enough to understand what she insinuated so in response she tries to gaslight/downplay that it wasn’t her expectation that he’d understand.

    Please please please listen for this tone and posture being used when you see other minorities across gender, ethnic and class lines. It’s such a common display of power.
     
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  6. LLDtracks

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    I've had people confuse my ethnicity for Hispanic even though I'm technically white. I've had people call me "taco girl" and "gardener gal" back in grade school. Racism is absolutely disgusting to me especially when the perpetrators are young children. It really needs to stop.
     
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  7. AbbieTheCurious

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    To be honest, tell they have some positive experiences to contradict that frame of thinking you will probably continue to play a game of pigeons chess... I find a lot of times when people are mostly stereotyping not intentionally being outright racist its from ignorance.. they have most likely only ever met a handful of people that aren't of the same race/culture, the ones they have met they probably didn't get to know well enough to start shedding some of that negative thinking.. So my best advise is see if you can help him get a little better exposure.. maybe go out somewhere for drinks somewhere a bit more diverse then he's used to.. something like this..
     
  8. thenewmatthewperry

    performative angry black man Prestigious

    Being black feels suffocating. I can list all the ways I've observed being placed at a disadvantage, dismissed, distrusted, etc. It's very exhausting.
     
  9. BirdPerson

    fuck tammy! Prestigious

    Canadian genocide
     
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  10. timmyh

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    Was walking down the street and someone threw a chicken bone at me

    I AM EXHAUSTED!
     
  11. Richter915

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    Whaaaaaat
     
  12. timmyh

    Newbie

    Yep

    I;m sick of it. This town is nothing but racist VILE
     
  13. Richter915

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    That's disgusting I'm sorry you have to deal with it. What a horrible thing to do to someone.
     
  14. shea

    RIP Supporter

    Justice for Ahmaud

    This happened in a rural South Georgia town I travel to a decent amount for work.

    A video of the incident was posted on social media today by Shaun King but I do not recommend seeking it out unless you want to see a cold blooded fucking murder. I’m fucking fuming.
     
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  15. shea

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    Update: Thanks to the public outcry this week the GBI just arrested the father and son and is charging them both with murder.
     
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  17. shea

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    The third man that filmed the murder and helped the McMichaels chase down and corner Ahmaud has been arrested by the GBI today for murder and criminal attempted false imprisonment.
     
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  18. The Lucky Moose

    I'm Emotional, I Hug the Block Prestigious

    I'm looking for some resources to share that people can use to educate themselves about racism. I can't really share my reading list with them because let's face it nobody will make the time, so I'm looking for some succinct, general information (as opposed to say deep dives into specifics). Any suggestions?
     
  19. radiodead

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    I made a rare post on My social media and recommended everyone start by researching REDLINING. I think it’s one of the best places for white people to start To understand why the modern world looks the way it does. Why the wealth gap between black and white families has compounded over decades. And it’s one few even consider. Even just a google search or hell a Wikipedia read. And if they want more, which they should, obviously The Color of Law.
     
  20. radiodead

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    I’ll take your reading suggestions.
     
  21. The Lucky Moose

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  22. shea

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    Initial hearings in the Arbery case are today. This whole thing somehow got more disgusting. Lots of calls from people that are at the hearing for the younger McMichael to be charged with a hate crime based on new video evidence and the testimony of the third man that helped them box him in right before he was shot that he stood over his body and called him a racial slur.

    Hope these mother fuckers rot.
     
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  23. Pasting this in here for anyone that missed it and is interested — a discussion on racism in the scene, hosted by photographer Courtney Coles. Guests include: Hanif Abdurraqib, Jason Aalon-Butler (letlive., FEVER 333), Sky Acord (Issues), Jordan Cahoun (Heart Like War), and Aaron Brown (Emo Nite). Whole thing’s close to 2 hours long, didn’t tune in for all of it so can’t personally speak to the overall quality, but at least a couple of these guys typically have a lot to say

     
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  24. The Lucky Moose

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    Yesterday Dutch WW2 resistance hero Bettsy Goudsmit-Oudkerk passed away at the age of 96. She was the last living staff member of a kindergarten for Jewish children opposite the Hollandsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam, through which 600 Jewish children were smuggled to safety. Goudsmit-Oudkerk was 17 years old when she worked at the daycare center on Plantage Middenlaan in Amsterdam.

    Goudsmit-Oudkerk's mother and grandmother were deported and killed in early 1943, just over two years following the loss of her father to a cerebral hemorrhage. Her brother, Gerrit, was also arrested in France and was later killed. Another brother, Nol, was rounded up at the Hollandsche Schouwburg where he was deported to Auschwitz, and later killed.

    Following the war, she helped care for Jewish children who were orphaned in the Netherlands.

    Until four years ago, she never spoke publicly about it, but she agreed to tell her story at the urging of her children.

    She was one of the rare ones. R.I.P. Bettsy.
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  25. The Lucky Moose

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