Coming from a lowkey racist WASP family

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Anonymous wrote:OP if you're from a WASP family then I'm sure you have subtly racist opinions on some POC work ethic. Probably shouldn't judge your family harder than yourself.

Wow . Way to paint with a broad brush . Out of curiosity, when did these 'subtly racist opinions of some poc work ethic' start surfacing? I ask because when some of these poc were providing free labor in parts of thus country , no one ever called their work ethic into question.

[Anonymous]

The octogenarians will soon die off and their closed minded beliefs will go with them. Thank god.

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Anonymous wrote:[google]

Anonymous wrote:True WASPs aren't racist.

Laughable! WASP culture is absolutely racist.

No. True WASP culture is the type of Episcopalianism where you are very worried about racism and social justice but have no minority friends. It's about being overly obsequious to your housekeeper because she's "like family". It's about believing you couldn't possibly be racist because racism is a character flaw and WASPs don't have character flaws, they are the moral paradigms that all other Americans should strive to be.

LOL, this describes many Episcopalians I know.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbud8rLejLM

Everyones A Little Bit Racist

[Anonymous]

All races are low-key racist, not just whites as much as you would like to believe that. And all families have members that make some low-key racist comments when not in mixed company. When out in society, they keep it in check.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[google]

Anonymous wrote:True WASPs aren't racist.

Laughable! WASP culture is absolutely racist.

No. True WASP culture is the type of Episcopalianism where you are very worried about racism and social justice but have no minority friends. It's about being overly obsequious to your housekeeper because she's "like family". It's about believing you couldn't possibly be racist because racism is a character flaw and WASPs don't have character flaws, they are the moral paradigms that all other Americans should strive to be.

LOL, this describes many Episcopalians I know.

Oh boy is this spot on!

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Anonymous wrote:My family is full of subtly racist WASPs, nothing overt but they make little comments and their tone/body language is such that you can pick up on the fact they don't want you dating or marrying people of another race, that they look down on other races, etc. Feels awkward being around them and I've dated a number of women of other races. Anyone else experience something like this?

Either lean in to it, or tap out

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My family is like this and I dated and later married a (non-observant) Jew. They were nice enough about it but not as excited as if I'd married a Methodist or Episcopalian. When my mother told her father I was engaged he thought about it for a minute and then replied, "Well, Jews are known to be good providers." For him, that was giving his blessing.

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Anonymous wrote:The octogenarians will soon die off and their closed minded beliefs will go with them. Thank god.

Was it octogenarians marching in Charlottesville? Storming the Capitol?

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You think you know better but you don’t

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Anonymous wrote:My grandmother was a white supremacist, so I had the overt racism growing up. My father is not white, so that made it really fun. Everyone liked *him*, and *me*. But my grandmother told my mother, in front of me, that different races really should not marry.

I mean, it ended up being hilarious it was so wrong.

My cousins and I are very lefty and open-minded. The ones stuck in the middle are my mother and her siblings. They have made great progress. I suspect that some of them simply have made progress in overt to covert racism. But others really have grown to respect most skin colors and ethnic provenance.

Now on to sexual identity. Here everyone is Catholic or if not that, very socially conservative, so my family is still at square 0: fear and detestation.

It’s not possible to be both “lefty” and “open minded.” Sorry; try again.

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Anonymous wrote:I married into an old money WASP family. My kids and I call out my ILs and try to educate them when they're being racist/homophobic/bigoted/victim shamer/etc. but my ILs very much have the attitude of "I'm too old to keep up with all these new rules."

I've been married to my wife for 25 years and no matter how many times I've told her that the correct term is either people of color or black, she still calls them "colored people" and says that back then, they wanted to be called colored instead of other things. Um, yeah, I guess if the options were colored or n-word, I'd pick colored, too, Jacqueline!

Is she from the south?

I'm 53, from Ca, and we didn't use the term "colored people".

+1 My late father, born in 1934 used that term and I corrected him each time. Unless your wife is in her 80s, there is no excuse.

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Anonymous wrote:All races are low-key racist, not just whites as much as you would like to believe that. And all families have members that make some low-key racist comments when not in mixed company. When out in society, they keep it in check.

This, and a couple of homophobic comments. And by keeping it in check, they forget themselves around me, gay.

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Anonymous wrote:True WASPs aren't racist.

Right. They save it for the antisemitism.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[google]

Anonymous wrote:True WASPs aren't racist.

Laughable! WASP culture is absolutely racist.

No. True WASP culture is the type of Episcopalianism where you are very worried about racism and social justice but have no minority friends. It's about being overly obsequious to your housekeeper because she's "like family". It's about believing you couldn't possibly be racist because racism is a character flaw and WASPs don't have character flaws, they are the moral paradigms that all other Americans should strive to be.

Spot on. Watch Get Out.