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In reply to the discussion: Black Farmer Calls Out Liberal Racism In Powerful Facebook Message [View all]WhiskeyGrinder
(27,359 posts)liberal people still have some problems to work through," the framing you say would be helpful. I also think that bending over to keep the differences between the two parties "in perspective" is condescending to POC. They know what the difference is. They know both sides aren't the same. But when it comes to being directly oppressed, a string of turn-downs for job interviews because of "company culture" from hiring managers who don't consider themselves racist is just as harmful as proclamation celebrating Robert E. Lee, if not more so.
POC are asking white people who call themselves allies to do better. White people who call themselves allies know they can do better, and yet insist on POC using different words or approaches when they ask white allies to do better. Why?
I think part of the answer is what some of the responses in this thread allude to: There Republicans might score a point because they're right about their claims about some in the party. All the more reason to address it then, I would think.