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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I’m not sure why I’m surprised by the many dismissive comments on here, but I am.[/b]  And a little disappointed.

OP wrote about something most people either avoid talking about or get defensive about- why the negativity?

OP , I think saying everyone is racist will make people who are very conscious of trying to treat everyone equally defensive- & that’s not helpful. And to the snippy posters , acknowledging that being white lets you start life with a tiny advantage (or a huge advantage) over POC does nothing to denigrate you. It’s reality.  At least be open to the idea that you- a white person- are not in the position to tell a POC that racism isn’t a thing.  How would you really know?

And it’s been said often but think of this example - if Obama had done one tenth of the moronic missteps Trump has done (& imagine the things we DON’T know) people would have been up in arms with variations of how dare he, etc etc. Does anyone NOT agree with that?  & I’m not talking about policy decisions, I’m talking about the lies, the misogyny, his lack of character.  The bar would never have been lowered so far down for a black position [/quote]

Same. DCUM was hijacked by non-DMV Trump supporters a couple years ago. The tone has drastically changed.[/quote]

To some extent.

But you're also seeing the reactions of people who are not far far left to the same story they've heard for years. For literally decades.

Good for OP for now being hyper race conscious instead of color blind.  Now she needs to figure out if that's better.[/quote]

Exactly.

In my book, it's worse.

Signed

Immigrant with brown skin -- irrelevant IMO but somehow critical for a subset of Americans like OP[/quote]

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