Post #2182414

2022-11-24 00:22 UTC

@robinshipton@writing.exchange @matunos@mastodon.social None of those 3 things are offensive, whether or not they're true. The challenge is that offense is a personal thing, even situational. We can't say that someone else should/shouldn't be offended. The best we can do is guess if a 'reasonable person' would be offended. And you would agree that if the word white was swapped for any other race, what she said would be offensive?

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@robinshipton@writing.exchange 2022-11-24 00:27

@matunos@mastodon.social @BenAveling@mastodon.world Hey now, put down that reverse racism card. That thing is toxic waste and not a toy. No, that is not the best we can do. POC criticizing white people: white people can be quiet and listen. That’s what you do. You’re tone policing again.

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@matunos@mastodon.social 2022-11-24 04:00

@BenAveling@mastodon.world @robinshipton@writing.exchange if it were swapped with any other race, it wouldn't be true

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@stevegis_ssg@mas.to 2022-11-25 05:49

@BenAveling@mastodon.world @robinshipton@writing.exchange @matunos@mastodon.social It is not appropriate for us as white people to pretend that "swapping" the races would be some neutral substitution. There is a very real history of racism and extant pattern of systemic racism that is extremely white-specific. Please don't turn someone's life experience into an intellectual exercise that way.

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