We have experiences in which race and ethnic misunderstanding play a huge part — however, most of us can identify that it was a negative experience and do not wish to duplicate this. The levels of awareness vary and some individuals pay more attention than others — but most of these oblivious people stumbling through racialized experiences are not racist. To call them so is to over-use the word and undervalue its significance and meaning.

I am Belligerent. — Fellow Crackers

Tumblr, thank you for that piecing together that awesome post title.

This argument really solidified why it’s important to argue against a distinction between “date-rape” and “rape-rape.” The distinctions in each and every instance of rape can come out in the details, but it’s all rape, and it all the same issue, the same event, and the same fucked up mindset.

Racism is racism. Whether it’s people asking you “where are you from” or the fact that different ethnicities in America find themselves having to present themselves somewhere in a triangle between Indigenous, Black, and White because that’s all a lot of white people are really capable of grasping. It’s a longstanding history of, what you call in a later post, “racial accidents.” It’s white people preferring the company of white people, and since they currently hold the “gateways to success” if I can make up term, whether they mean to or not, choose the white person over the person of color. You’re telling me that the fact that I tense up when I’m passing a dark skinned black man in baggy clothes on the street isn’t racism? That’s it’s a “racial accident?” This is all racism. And not calling it that, as robot-heart pointed out, is diminishing the term.

ETA: sorry for the poor initial formatting.

(via sexartandpolitics)

I really have nothing to add to Danny’s point.

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    For everything I’ve learned in college, see above.
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    Emphasis mine. Really like what RHP said here.
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    joke? Really, I’m serious? I am mostly unsure as...care, but I’m pretty certain
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    interrobanging-26 responds:...The second part I’m more comfortable responding to, because...
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    are making, there are things which I have always found silly. For instance, I think taking the question ‘Where
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    FOR REAL. anytime i try to tell a white person, “hey, we’re all racist”, they always shit their pants.
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