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Originally Posted by unsunghero
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I’m still over here trying to un-learn Martin Luther King’s desire to not judge by skin color, since apparently colorblindness is now considered another form of racism. I need to learn to stereotype up a guess at someone’s “lived experience” based on their skin color, while de-emphasizing the role their economic class status plays in that
So much to learn
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At least some of that is just certain edumacated people trying to posture themselves as the new authority on a topic because academic settings can make anyone with good test scores feel self-important. But then that gets into the bubbles people live in more than anything else.
Trying to superimpose guilt after the fact seems unproductive and ignores the fact that no one's family tree is full of saints. What is an appropriate amount of guilt to feel if one is Polish, French-Canadian, Australian, etc.? How many people belong entirely to what's considered a single race/ethnicity and which mix of backgrounds are still considered white, black, etc.? Many people aren't even entirely aware of those details. Supposedly Conan O'Brien is as Irish as it gets (and his wife is Irish, Scottish, and Welsch) but Irish immigrants weren't treated favorably in America for a number of reasons, Catholicism being one, and neither were Sicilians/Italians.