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"I don't understand. But I don't care, so it works out."
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Originally Posted by vkhmini
Yep. Someone I'd known IRL for thirty years told me that I didn't hate Trump enough to suit her and called me a racist and a sexist. I thanked her for unfriending me, both online and IRL.
Right. I get that, people are weird.
What's going on in this thread is the fear that a mob will come after you, you'll lose your job, etc., for making comments to acquaintances at work.
Because I happen to know her. I wasn't asking for help from a stranger.
She categorizes herself as "non racist".
I haven't embraced "white guilt" at all, and I'm shocked at those white women washing other people's feet when they haven't done anything harmful to them, at all. I don't understand that kind of servile behavior.
I have nothing to make up for; I've not done harm. But I do recognize subtle racism when I see it and hear it, and people who say that kind of stuff have no idea. Like Biden's comment about poor kids do just as well in school as white kids. THAT was a window on his thought process.
Those sound like microagressions. I don't believe in the concept. It's just something invented by injustice collectors. Biden is a moron, not a racist. The thought process that invented microagressiosns has now lead to book burning. Eventually we will have thought crimes and re-education camps.
Those sound like microagressions. I don't believe in the concept. It's just something invented by injustice collectors. Biden is a moron, not a racist. The thought process that invented microagressiosns has now lead to book burning. Eventually we will have thought crimes and re-education camps.
I agree. The article is encouraging people to listen to (read) different voices than their own. To expand their literary diet to authors of color.
On that note, I googled the term mentioned, anti-racist books, and found a recent list. I've read a number of them, but found "White Fragility" - why white people are so uncomfortable with the topic of racism - to look interesting.
Checked whether my library has it. They have 5 copies, with 405 holds. So apparently the message is getting out.
"White fragility" is a garbage term created to halt debate and silence dissent.
- "Here's an article suggesting you add books with an anti-racist perspective to your library."
- "OMG!!! THEY'RE GOING TO BURN 'GONE WITH THE WIND'!"
Seriously.
We see where this is going. Three weeks ago none imagined that the police would abandon their stations and give their cities over to raging mobs. None imagined that city mayors and other elected officials would join the cry to "defund" the police. None imagined that long running television shows would be canceled due to the mob's feels.
We have seen for the past few years the sentiments and actions of the totalitarian left. Little is beyond the pale now.
We've noticed.
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