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Originally Posted by DownInFlames
Isn’t assuming some wants to, or is able to, talk about Black Lives Matter “setting a standard which someone shouldn't have to live up to just because of how they're born”? I have listened to as many Black voices as I can, and will continue to, because it’s important for pasty white guys like me to understand their experience, but only if they start the conversation. If someone is trying to go about their day they don’t need me coming up to them to get their take. Or maybe that’s just my social anxiety talking.
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We're going in circles on a hypothetical that never even happened here, so I'll just say this. Read my posts, use your best judgement, just use the word "racism" purposefully. If you have to go seven layers deep into a logic argument to figure out if something some well-intentioned person did
might be
kinda racist, you're wasting energy better spent on something positive. If you, as a White person, are arguing that something was kinda racist, even when the Black person in the actual situation says "definitely not!" and you're doing gymnastics to get there, who is that really for?
And speaking just for me, if someone asks genuinely about my take on an issue because my sexuality is relevant to the issue, that's actually nice, even if I have nothing to say. I'm not sitting around thinking "kind of homophobic to be honest!" I mean the weirdest part is randomly bringing strangers into conversation. That's weird, not racist or homophobic or whatever lol.