"I want to hate a group of people, and I want to avoid guilt, so here I am justifying to myself that they deserve it, like every other bigot since time began."
What she meant to write: White people benefit from generations of systemic racism and no matter your current situation, if you were born as a POC you would be doing worse than you are doing now. It's important to recognize this and take it into account.
What she wrote: White people should BEG for forgiveness!
Even if the intent wouldn't have gone well either way, would it hurt these people to write about people they dislike as if they were flesh and blood human beings and not abstract constructs?
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Alex Reynard
Mar 30, 2021 at 07:51PM EDT
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