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Adriana's avatar

I can listen to Prof. Reed all day. I have seen a friend been called a racist because she disagreed with a headline of an article, then a black person disagreed with my friend, and my friend was asked to leave the thread because nobody can disagree with any black person anymore. My friend's point was that performative actions will not solve the problems of systemic racism unless people start paying attention to class disparities (she has been listening to Prof. Reed and Touré, among others, for a while).

Think about it: she disagreed with a headline, not with a person, but because the black person who disagreed with my friend was black, and an academic - my friend was denied a proper education because she is disabled and has been catching up to many issues by doing the work herself - she was shamed for her "white skin" (not really white)

I hear a lot of "black people are not a monolith", "people like Justice Thomas do not represent black people", but white people are [a monolith], all bad, if they disagree with that one black person who happens to be in the same place (or comment thread) at the same time

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Michael Webb's avatar

When do we get the Robyn Diangelo version of Karen The Movie? where they just take Catherine Keener’s character from Get Out and she captures gullible white libs with her microaggressive-Agressive potion.

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