Nor did I say that all white people are racist. If you are going to come at me trying to argue about race when you are a white male (laughable at best), you should take your time and critically read what I've written instead of jumping to conclusions that you are not prepared to make or defend, my friend.
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Togepi, when you said "they have done" or "have said" i thought you were implying previous actions that are now greatly frowned upon
deleteddeletedalmost 11 years ago
GasPedaI36m 42s Germatron if white then racist if racist then opinion doesnt matter There are no nonracist white people because racism is socialized, institutionalized, and white people have profited off the suffering of POC (most obviously in slavery, but also with strict voter ID laws, sex work exploitation, sharecropping (iirc that's the term) in the post-civil war period, gerrymandering to keep lower income (read: less white) people from being spread out through county lines).
It's diffusion of responsibility. If I am a white person and I hear "some white people are racist", I will pat myself on the back and go "Boy, those racist white people are bad. Glad I am not part of the problem in any way". Saying "All white people are racist", however, will cause me to analyze my own complicity in racism rather than assume I am the perfect nonracist white person.
No one has even mentioned slavery here, so you are making a large leap in an argument that doesn't even exist.
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Not confirming nor denying that "all white people are racist"
I just wanted to address that point specifically
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RIP Rutab.
deleteddeletedalmost 11 years ago
Um. "They have done"
You probably think I'm proving your point with this post, but you can't blame an entire race for things like slavery that happened with different white people
deleteddeletedalmost 11 years ago
I myself call at least 3 white people racist on a daily basis or I have to scrub my body with bleach to feel clean.
Calling a white person racist is the worst that you can do to them. Worst than calling them fat, stupid, messing up their credit history - anything. Because by identifying what they have said, done, or if they are wholly racist is forcing them confront the idea that their way of thinking is not largely accepted nor is it correct. It's really interesting.
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True. There's a heavy amount of statistics that prove r ape culture, racism, sexism, and the like, but that's for Germatron to never find out.
I don't think that college is even necessary for people to research, read, and listen. It's about making logical connections between the facts and information that you do have. Some people are born with it...
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Can you learn things from tumblr? Yes. Do you end up learning fundamentals in politics, american history, and gender/class/race studies from browsing iraffiruse.tumblr.com? The jury's out on that one.
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My favorite thing about being educated is that people insinuate I learned stuff from tumblr when really this is just what college eventually does to you. You either become educated or hyper-republican.
