• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s a dog whistle. He just wants to constantly remind his racist cult that she’s black, so they won’t focus on him being senile, belligerent, and stupid.

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      let him spend his energy on people who will anyways vote republicans no matter what even if he is 105 years old

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    The human race is an unscientific way of saying single species of human called homosapiens. There aren’t more, just us multicolored assholes. Now replace “race” with the real thing… “Trumpfus persists in insulting Harris by calling her a fake black person as his campaign flounders since shooting: 'I think I’m fucking racist”

    In added fucking. He didn’t say fucking.

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      Casual racism is what laid the foundation of his cult. He stoked the flames for 8 years with an obsession when Obama hurt his fee-fees at a correspondents dinner and he’s been riding on that wave this whole time

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    I live in a blue state. Almost all of the kids I see nowadays are mixed race. This sort of shit is almost over. As soon as the boomers die out, there won’t be a majority white voter.

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      In some far future utopia we will’ve all interbred and evolved to a nice caramel/olive skin and our descendents will imagine us as cavemen. If we mange to make it that long.

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      That’s why they’re so afraid. You should see the looks I get from boomers when they see my tanned ass with my white wife

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    My first reaction was to wonder why anyone would care what her race is. It is the least interesting or important thing about her

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      Racial Colorblindness is still racism. Kamala Harris, like anyone mixed race or nonwhite, has had a measurably different experience living in America than her white peers.

      Fixating on her race the way Trump and Republicans are doing is absolutely racist.

      But hand waving her racial identity away like it is irrelevant is also quite a racist thing to do.

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          it’s mostly a problem in the situation where a person goes “Racism is over, you shouldn’t complain”

          You can’t dismiss the power that race has in people’s lives to this day because institutional racism still exists, and the consequences of the more overt institutional racism of the past are still in effect.

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          When you say something like “I don’t see color” or “I don’t see race”, you’re actively dismissing an immutable part of a person’s identity, which is insulting. You can acknowledge and appreciate someone’s race without treating them differently because of it.

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            No that’s ridiculous. Not seeing something is in No Way actively doing anything. It is by definition passive.

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              The colour blindness of children is what you’re thinking of. They’re the only ones untainted by the racism they will inevitably be exposed to later in life.

              You’d have to be incredibly innocent, ignorant, or obtuse, if you got to adulthood without being aware that a person’s visible race will affect how others (like racists) will treat them.

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                So I’m neuro divergent and I don’t see people in terms of race. I guess I’m racist now. Who knew. You freaking people are why the right thinks we’re insane. Blind people are racist too?

                Here is me actively dismissing. I see your skin color and I make a conscious decision to omit that fact.

                You are saying if someone doesn’t actually notice the color of people when we see them we are racist. That’s exactly like saying people who are deaf are rude for ignoring you when you speak. Ridiculous.

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                  We’re not expecting you to see people in terms of race. That would be profiling. You’re being far too literal and not making a point in good faith by trying to equate visual impairment in this context.

                  Please look up the difference between equality and equity, and why equality isn’t sufficient and can in fact still be exclusionary in today’s reality. That’s the point we’re trying to make here.

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          Having certain experiences means intimately knowing the problems affecting others in a similar situation, and that puts you in a better position to fix them.

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          She might know a little bit of the struggles the non-white community in the US have to go through, possibly experienced it first hand one way or the other. That might lead to a more inclusive presidency than what Trump would do.

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            Yeah, but can that same logic be applied to say black conservatives? Some people see struggles, including their own, as something they should work to help others avoid. Some see struggles as a membership fee or filter to make a better way of life more exclusive and are glad they are there, even if it was hard to go through them.

            Plus, not all experiences are equal. While dealing with some racism might be universal for minority races, specific experiences can vary wildly. Think like fresh Prince of Belair where social status and wealth meant Will’s family had a very different environment that was shielded from some of the worst aspects of systemic racism like being stuck in a ghetto with many others but not many resources per person and not much to do.

            That’s why I think skin colour alone isn’t a useful consideration, just like it’s not useful to determine if a specific individual is trustworthy or a criminal.

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              Yeah that’s intersectionality.

              individuals’ social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege.

              Not that it’s a competition, but having a little more diversity along any axis (like skin colour) is probably preferable, all things being equal.

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    Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. Will you walk out of the air, my lord?

    ~ Lord Polonius

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    In his mind biracial doesn’t exist so he’ll keep going; one day it’ll stop just not today.

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      His mind also can’t admit he made a mistake. That quote is just way too perfect “I think I was right

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    This won’t go well for him. Even after the meeting the Republicans had when they were told not to be racist and misogynistic against Harris they still can’t help themselves.