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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just wish everyone would calm down. As a Black person I see all of this hand wringing about cancel culture as an excuse to not engage in solving the problem of racial inequities.

If you can look back and identify things you've done and said that were biased, discriminatory or promoted stereotypes and understand why it was wrong then that is a good thing. I'd even ask people to go deeper and research things like blackface and other racist ideology/stereotypes and how and why it keeps getting perpetuated.

And for goodness sakes you don't need to shout from the rooftops of how woke you are now - just learn and unlearn, listen to POC, listen to understand, and pass on what you learn to your kids.

That's literally all you have to do.

Signed - 53 yo Black woman

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Your are absolutely right! Cancel culture is used as an excuse. Therefore, it is time to stop the blame game and "cancellation" and get to the talking and learning. Enough finger pointing. That obviously is not helpful and, in fact, detracts from the message. Stop with the pervasive labeling of people as racists and instead let's make sure that people get educated so that they stop their racist actions and stop thinking like a bunch of racists. People, although they are likely racists, don't react well to being called out-- however right that is to do. If we really want to solve this problem, the blaming has to cease and the conversations need to start. People who are called out get angry, are in denial, lose face-- it is not productive. However wrong those people are, if the goal is to get rid of racism, we need to start going about it in a different way. For example, when a Rutger's professor gets on NPR and talks about how she is no longer going to pander to white people, that can anger people and shut them down to a productive discussion. Don't say stuff like that if you really want white people to stop being racist-- that is the practical reality.[/quote]

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