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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn’t mean to post and run-had to work.

No Confederate flags! This is what irks me.  This side of the family is extremely progressive. We are all social justice advocates.  No one in the family is a Trumper or even a conservative. No one has made racial comments about anything it was simply the tiger King costume and my silence in explaining it. Also, the fact that nobody wanted to engage in large conversations over text about racial injustice.  Frankly, they have no kids they have jobs as starving artists.  They never ask anything about the family beyond wanting to talk race . The rest of the family have kids have lost jobs and are trying to see our way through a pandemic. Yes social justice and racial injustice are important but it is not our 24 hour gig as it is their’s.

I don’t believe anybody has ever made a comment to her about anything offensive but then again I am not her and I don’t walk in her shoes so I understand this part now. It’s been hard though to see the shaming of a family when I don’t think that it is justified. Again though I guess it’s not up to me to determine if it is justified or not. The costume consisted of a Hawaiian shirt and a blond mullet wig. I dressed as the Carol lady with a floral crown. Yes, we are all white.[/quote]
It’s very convenient for white people that they can choose to just not discuss racism and then go about their lives like nothing is happening.  [b]Racism is a daily experience for your SIL,[/b] and yet no one in your family seems to have the slightest interest in understanding where she’s coming from or how it affects her.  You are not as progressive as you think you are, OP.[/quote]

I'm Asian too. Stop that. She's crazy to pretend this costume is racist. Of course it's not, even if the person in question is racist. There is a difference between wearing a costume from a TV show about trainwreck-type people and their tigers; and signaling that by dressing up as this person, she's also supporting racist beliefs because he happened to have said racist things that were later cut from the show and that very few people actually know about! I mean, come on. I've never seen this show, I'm not on social media, I couldn't pick this Tiger King person out of a line-up... like most people in the USA.

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Oh dear Japanese pp, stop the pretense! Japanese people are some of the worst racists in the world! And you are showing us why![/quote]

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