Chase TM Anderson, 💖🦄🏳️‍🌈🦸🏽‍♂️Nov 26, 2022
Normalize Black people coming to this app being safe to speak their minds. What we bring up might abut internal discomfort and biases that you might hold. That is not the minoritized person’s responsibility, though, to educate you, coddle you, to do the work for you. It is your responsibility to not create yet another space where Black people are marginalized or silenced.
I’ve been calculated about bringing this up and now is the time.💖✊🏽
#Black #BlackPride #Minoritized #Responsibility #unity
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@ChaseTMAnderson
Just try not to self marginalize yourself. Already saw a couple of posts here that both try to defend the black while at the same attack the non-black, saying they don't know nothing and better shut up or somehting. So, I don't think that reverse-racisim is doing any good for anyone.
BUT if you are trying to pick fights by being passive-aggresive then I guess thats the way to go :D
Nov 27, 2022 at 12:33amWeb
Show threadElizabethNov 27, 2022
@torbalan @ChaseTMAnderson Reverse racism is not a thing. Racism is about power, societal power. This is why institutional racism is such an important thing for us, as a society, to deal with, along with on the individual level. Black people, and other people of color, can have biases towards whites, they can even hate us, but it is NOT racism. I recommend this article as a great explainer on why it is not a thing, and where it came from. https://www.today.com/tmrw/what-reverse-racism-experts-weigh-term-t184580
What is reverse racism? Experts weigh in on the term

What does racism really mean and can it be reversed?

TODAY
Show threadRonja A-R (e/em/eir ; hen)Nov 27, 2022

@torbalan @ChaseTMAnderson

"Reverse-rasism" isn't a thing. In social sciences, racism = prejudice + power, and we whites are the most privileged and powerful demographic in the Western hemisphere. Therefore other demographics cannot be racist against us in this context.

Show threadcanofwormsNov 28, 2022

@torbalan @ChaseTMAnderson

I agree with what you said. Racism is defined in a few ways in the dictionary, and pure prejudice is one of them. Whilst these arguments often get exploited by closet racists, I think it's important to see nuance and recognize that everyone, regardless of their skin colour, has the capacity to behave in a racist way.