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Originally Posted by 81MC
Coach, I’m sorry bud, but the take that it’s okay to use non-racial terms on a white person, but suddenly becomes a racial slur on an non-white, is pretty whack. That seems to fly in the face of looking beyond skin tone.
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This isn’t about “looking beyond skin tone”. It’s about recognizing the ways that people of a certain skin tone get systematically oppressed by others, even when it’s not done with intent or maliciousness or even insults any particular person of colour. If I’ve been learning one thing over the past few days it’s that this idea of seeing the world “colourblind” is one of the highest points of white privilege. The world is not colourblind and to decide that we ourselves are makes us blind to what we are doing that perpetuates disparity and oppression. Even if it’s just a word.
If you want to argue it’s not okay to call ANYONE a thug, because hurt feelings, fine. It’s a different discussion. To me, it’s like saying all lives matter. It’s true. But it’s missing the point.