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Zonbei posted...

Yes, not being proactively antiracist means you kind of suck. It isnt that hard. Youre acting like its some Herculean undertaking. You should be contributing to anti racism where you can. That doesnt even mean what you clearly think it does, volunteering or money or whether. Just fucking call people out when theyre being racist. Work through your own ingrained racism.

Calling people out on their racism? Consider it done.
Working through my own racism? If and when I find it, I'll deal with it.

I dont know what makes you think I dont hold myself to the same standards.i am
unclear what youre trying to say with holding myself to the same measurement. I mean, for one, Im not white, but I do still do the work to combat systemic racism.

Your statement that anyone who pushes back against racism is told theyre making the fight about them is needlessly dramatic. Has that happened? Sure. Usually when people actually were being performative, but not always. Is it common? Of course not.

Until this post, you hadn't given any examples of what an individual could or should do to fight systemic racism. You said that anyone who didn't fight racism was responsible for racism, but you didn't define what it meant to fight back. I didn't know if I was simply being expected to call someone out on making racist comments or if I was supposed to donate time and money to help antiracist organizations.

As for potentially not having the same standard, I was curious if you felt that some of us needed to fight harder against racism to compensate for our inherent privilege.