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In reply to the discussion: Tim Wise: Race-Talk is a Language White Folks Need to Learn [View all]Decoy of Fenris
(1,954 posts)We've had a dialogue recently, and you know that I'm at the -very least- open to change and willing to listen. I'm not equivocating the severity of something like the N-word to "White People", but the exact same argument of "Not all white people" is often used to justify "Not all black people" in exactly the same way. This article reads, again as mentioned upthread, -exactly- the same as the "They're not all N-words" bullshit I heard growing up from an entirely white town prejudiced against blacks.
I hope you don't take my meaning to be one of hate or racism, I'm trying to explain that the very people this article tries to reach often use the exact same phrases and sentences to justify their own deep-seated racism and bigotry. "Not all (X)" is a rallying cry for the racist and the hate-filled bigots, and this article plays entirely into those same hands.