@zhivi @BlackMastodon @mekkaokereke
I’ve only heard it as a means of not recognising white privilege and simultaneously closing down the conversation.

Tends be done by white old men in senior positions who really want to be fair and equal opportunity to all while not accepting debate on how it isn’t. It is allowed by institutionally racist institutions that allow it as it allows them to be institutionally racist behind the smoke screen of equality.

It is the dream of a meritocracy by ivory towers that don’t need to be racist because society has done that work for them.

It becomes the final insult to the black kids by telling them they are not here on merit.