Or, possibly when one automatically equates terms like "deluded" or "doesn't know what they're talking about" with "racist," then what appears is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
As for your why-should-we-go-first argument, perhaps I should clarify that I mean "most vitally" rather than "first in time." Furthermore, your reasoning is - oh, you're not going to like this - from a privileged viewpoint, to be blunt about it. It's easy to say, "Well, we should just all decide to be equal together, now, and forget about this race stuff," when you have largely escaped from the worst damages of racism and can afford to be trusting like that.
But honestly, you answered your own question:
If no one takes the first step, it never happens.
Exactly.
Maybe "oppression" is the wrong word, but the way in which you blame minorities and immigrants for a bureaucratic snafu which, however race-based, was probably caused by other white people gave me the distinct impression that you feel threatened.
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Date: 2007-03-24 01:38 am (UTC)As for your why-should-we-go-first argument, perhaps I should clarify that I mean "most vitally" rather than "first in time." Furthermore, your reasoning is - oh, you're not going to like this - from a privileged viewpoint, to be blunt about it. It's easy to say, "Well, we should just all decide to be equal together, now, and forget about this race stuff," when you have largely escaped from the worst damages of racism and can afford to be trusting like that.
But honestly, you answered your own question:
If no one takes the first step, it never happens.
Exactly.
Maybe "oppression" is the wrong word, but the way in which you blame minorities and immigrants for a bureaucratic snafu which, however race-based, was probably caused by other white people gave me the distinct impression that you feel threatened.