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[quote=Anonymous][quote]what IS racist about that?

Just BCS, you don't know you are racist does not make you any less racist. The guy at work is a bigot. Plus, way to showcase your lack of knowledge about discrimination. There is a reason he said that, to prove that he is just as disadvantaged!!!! as those immigrants. Plus, to showcase his hate for new immigrants. 
Way to go bigots of the world.

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This is where the refusal to discuss meaning, context and intent is tragic. For some people and generations the concepts”we are all immigrants” is meant to signal resistance and refute  to the concept that “real Americans “ are white Christians who are not recent immigrants. A response to “go back to where you came from,” a reminder that migration, whether forced or chosen, has defined this country.  No less than Obama used this quote multiple times.

As a recent immigrant, you feel there should be a distinction between your experience and the experience of the white person you describe as a colonist; that is a good discussion to have and could be a teachable moment, on both sides, to explain intent and discuss the gap between the two of you. Why from your perspective your experiences are different, without resorting to calling him a bigot. You can explain that for you this coming cost erases the distinction of those who came to exploit and those who came to flee. But is what he said bigoted? Or does he lack an understanding of your perspective and what is a relatively recent critical stance in academic writing? Do you understand why he said what he did and the intent behind it? You assume he’s trying to claim a status you feel he does not deserve but is it possible he meant it in the Barack Obama way?What he trying to hide his actions or signal some kind of solidarity? ? Is it that you feel erased by his comments? Finally you are also assuming this man is a colonist descendant. Is that the case of his family? What about Irish immigrants during the potato famine? Jewish immigrants in the 1890s? The incredibly crude identity politics I see now is not really reflective of most peoples lives, families, pathways.

Finally to OP. I would stop posting here. I completely understand that what you describe is possible. I work in a very “woke” environment with a lot of white people who use virtual signaling to try to maintain their positions of power in a rapidly changing field. I have seen some very prominent people cancelled (even though extensive investigations showed no racist remarks or behavior) and have seen how they were abandoned by coworkers and colleagues. Some because they were afraid to be lumped in the same category and some because it was a power move. One of these canceled people was ultimately the subject of a very long piece in a magazine which illuminated the sordid story (and showed the accuser was mentally unwell) but it didn’t matter. They had been professionally and personally made invisible and it really didn’t matter what the reality was once perception rumor took hold. No one wants to be I. The wrong side of race and will throw colleagues under the bus if their own position is threatened. [/quote]

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