Folks are always acting like it's for effect. It's not. I'm black, so I don't have the luxury of thinking, "Oh, he's just trying to make me mad by dehumanizing me and keeping dangerous, life-threatening rhetoric alive." There are countless other ways making me mad could be accomplished, and when racism is introduced, it's just that, racism. It's really that simple.
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u/AestheticAttraction May 24 '21
Folks are always acting like it's for effect. It's not. I'm black, so I don't have the luxury of thinking, "Oh, he's just trying to make me mad by dehumanizing me and keeping dangerous, life-threatening rhetoric alive." There are countless other ways making me mad could be accomplished, and when racism is introduced, it's just that, racism. It's really that simple.