Tag: racism
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Marginalizing Women and Minorities as Attention Whores
“It’s a coded way of saying someone is just looking for attention because it assumes by default an illegitimacy for that person’s identity and experiences.”
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The Power Trap of Aryanism
“Being Aryan meant that everything that had gone wrong in the last generation or so wasn’t their fault.”
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"Paula Deen's Style is Part of the Problem"
“I hail from the swampy fug of Beaumont, TX. My father grew up there amid open racists who were otherwise the salt of the earth. He grew up in a segregated world, with black people working as house servants and expected to be second-class citizens, calling Brazil nuts “n- toes” and all the rest of […]
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On Hipster Racism
“So when you say that racism isn’t something you see, I won’t argue with that – you probably don’t see it. But I doubt that you’ve never been exposed to it. It is real. It does happen. But being white, you’ve never had to deal with it. You’ve never gotten rejected from a job and […]
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Birthers Are Racists
“Asking questions about Obama’s past gets you called a racist. No, continuously questioning his citizenship despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary gets you called a racist.” Commenter on MetaFilter