re: #260 HappyWarrior

I do wonder about the future of the left too. Frank’s touched on this before but a lot of white lefties are equally as insensitive as white wingnuts on the subject of race. A different kind of insensitivity but it’s all the same if you’re a PoC.

It all revolves around the toxicity of the WORDS ‘racist’ and ‘racism’.

The Right is tired of being called racist and being told society is racist so they react with stupid shit like ‘Blacks are the REAL racists!’ or ‘There’s nobody as discriminated against as a white Christian male!’, and then they elect a guy who’s overtly racist but hasn’t been caught yet using the N-word.

The Left is so convinced that their own shit don’t stink that they simply can’t believe that anything they do isn’t ‘colorblind’, because they’re ALL ‘the least racist person you’ll ever meet’.

NEITHER side wants to 1) listen to POCs about THEIR experiences, or 2) look inside and acknowledge their unconscious racism, and so maybe start to address it.