“not seeing race” is still racism because anything less than active anti-racism is still fucking racism. Colorblind racism enables systemic racism to continue.
Imagine saying “I don’t see height, everyone is the same” in a world where everything is already built for tall people. This just means all the short people are fucked forever and you’re going to ignore the problem.
I know y’all know all this already. I hate this shit more than overt racism. I think it’s actually more harmful because at least the open bigots are easy to ostracize, shame, etc.
This kind of racism, colorblind shit and liberal “equality”, are what actually drives systemic racism, not the white nationalist living in an RV 50 miles outside of town. These milquetoast positions are what allows the horrendous policies from the far right to slide right by.
For people who claim to be all about “telling it like it is”, they sure all consider offending them to be the ultimate sin.
Look at how they nominally gas up Daryl Davis as the only viable way to defeat them. Minority groups lie there and kiss the feet of their oppressors; be quiet and ignorable and maybe their oppressors will stop because they never felt threatened.
I swear every moderate wants to be the next Daryl Davis and are surprised when reactionaries don’t see them as “one of the good ones” and start questioning the strawman in their heads.
Something something disappointed in the white moderate something greatest threat to civil rights isn’t the KKK, it’s white liberals something something. --MLK
“not seeing race” is still racism because anything less than active anti-racism is still fucking racism. Colorblind racism enables systemic racism to continue.
Imagine saying “I don’t see height, everyone is the same” in a world where everything is already built for tall people. This just means all the short people are fucked forever and you’re going to ignore the problem.
I know y’all know all this already. I hate this shit more than overt racism. I think it’s actually more harmful because at least the open bigots are easy to ostracize, shame, etc.
This kind of racism, colorblind shit and liberal “equality”, are what actually drives systemic racism, not the white nationalist living in an RV 50 miles outside of town. These milquetoast positions are what allows the horrendous policies from the far right to slide right by.
For people who claim to be all about “telling it like it is”, they sure all consider offending them to be the ultimate sin.
Look at how they nominally gas up Daryl Davis as the only viable way to defeat them. Minority groups lie there and kiss the feet of their oppressors; be quiet and ignorable and maybe their oppressors will stop because they never felt threatened.
I swear every moderate wants to be the next Daryl Davis and are surprised when reactionaries don’t see them as “one of the good ones” and start questioning the strawman in their heads.
Something something disappointed in the white moderate something greatest threat to civil rights isn’t the KKK, it’s white liberals something something. --MLK
Also makes it easier to recruit proles when everything is clearly delineated for even the most sycophantic to see.