Trying to discuss race with white people is like talking to a brick wall. I just tried to talk about racism and got fucking ganged up on by white people swearing that you can only be racist if you intend to be so they aren’t racist as long as they mean well. It’s so fucking entitled when white people start lecturing poc about what’s really racist. God.
accepting the social institution of race is what makes one racist. we live in a racist society. our grandchildren will look back on us in shame for stubbornly clinging to our chains
The guy that called me a slur exploding outwards into little bits as soon as I tell him I don’t “accept the social institution of race”
obviously it would be goofy at best to point out the way race is a social construct in the face of a bigot hurling slurs. that’s clearly not the point being made here? don’t be intentionally obtuse.
race isn’t real the same way gender isn’t real. these things, despite their unreality, have massive confluence on the lives of people across the world.
it is our belief in these things that power them, like false gods. it isn’t some “gotcha” moment to point out the thing i’ve literally already clarified. like, yes? believing in race makes you a racist. no, it isn’t some magical cant that will make the bad men go away.
doesn’t mean it isn’t important to recognize.
this isn’t some enlightened centrist shit. recognizing the true nature of these social constructs is the basis of affectual change in society.
starting anywhere else is arrogant and folly
No it doesn’t, not at all. Racism is built into the very foundations of society, it’s not an individual problem, it’s a societal one often intentionally ignored by individuals for whom it benefits.