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In reply to the discussion: Tim Wise: Race-Talk is a Language White Folks Need to Learn [View all]Drum
(9,090 posts)8. I'll rescind my comment, with the acknowledgment that I'm uninformed n/t
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Interesting how it sounds if you make the same argument in the converse ...
Hugh_Lebowski
Sep 2021
#7
Not being defensive, I just found it amusing that if you reverse the words
Hugh_Lebowski
Sep 2021
#12
Text inversion is not a good tool for exposing biases. But it IS a good tool for obfuscating them
StarfishSaver
Sep 2021
#43
This would be "interesting" only if we didn't live in a white supremacy.
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2021
#16
There are plenty of white people in Democratic/leftist/progressive spaces who perpetrate the white-
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2021
#17
White people telling Black people "if you want real change, do it the way I tell you to do it"
StarfishSaver
Sep 2021
#19
Let me make it "less meta". Defeating racism by using racism causes unnecessary conflict.
TigressDem
Oct 2021
#48
Don't agree with everything, but maybe you ARE helping me understand it differently.
TigressDem
Oct 2021
#83
You think we can't talk about any kind of white privilege unless we prove that
StarfishSaver
Oct 2021
#51
Mentioning race isn't an issue. NEVER going BEYOND that and making it ALL about race is still racism
TigressDem
Oct 2021
#65
Isn't it funny how sometimes people can actually agree on core issues, but argue a lot?
TigressDem
Oct 2021
#74
IF I were giving orders on how it should happen before..... we wouldn't be talking.
TigressDem
Oct 2021
#64
It's not up to you to "take the conversation FARTHER" by telling everyone what you think
StarfishSaver
Oct 2021
#70
Yes, it's probably better for you to try to start a conversation on race that's more to your liking
StarfishSaver
Oct 2021
#77
I didn't ask anyone to "build a bridge TO me" but traditionally people working together ...
TigressDem
Oct 2021
#85
Where I was growing up, there was similar sentiment, but against Blacks.
Decoy of Fenris
Sep 2021
#15
You're equating Black people being called "nigger" with white people being called "white people"?
StarfishSaver
Sep 2021
#20
You think black people being called nigger and white people being called white people has the same r
StarfishSaver
Sep 2021
#23
I'd agree that the words/phrases don't carry the same weight, to be sure.
Decoy of Fenris
Sep 2021
#24
They not only don't carry the same weight, they should never be equated in a discussion like this
StarfishSaver
Sep 2021
#26
It is more like being called "boy" or saying "black people" do X because they are black.
TigressDem
Oct 2021
#52
You keep telling us what the conversation must consist of before you'll engage in it
StarfishSaver
Oct 2021
#53
K&R. Posting this article really illustrates the need for an article like this.
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2021
#18