I just saw someone tell an actual immigration attorney (all of them are heroes to me in these times), that *they* were being racist for saying deportations and kidnappings happen mostly to brown people

I just

Some people just have brain worms. It’s much easier for me to understand that than whatever they believe
@skinnylatte I hear similar lines of "reasoning" from center-left people who really don't want to get that their Law and Order shit is racist.
@skinnylatte like they're presuming that *their* racist belief that there isn't a discrepancy in enforcement is true.

@skinnylatte It's absolute madness. Something along the lines of "being aware of racism is racist"?

I bumped into this thinking from someone several years back who I suddenly no longer wanted to pursue a romantic relationship with.

@randomgeek yeah like if you β€˜see’ color *you* are racist
@skinnylatte @randomgeek a common rebuttal in Latin America, it pains me to say

@laescude @skinnylatte well dang.

You can't imagine how much I hoped this thought habit was confined to the US.

@skinnylatte somehow i think my grandmother is more at risk of deportation than [white person]
@skinnylatte "Telling the truth about racist systems being racist is the real racism" like...