I think 98% of "REVERSE RACISM!!" yawping is BS, including a lot of affirmative action complaints, but this will never be true no matter how shamelessly people try to redefine the common and obvious meaning of 'racism,' and it's disgraceful to argue otherwise. Bigotry is bigotry.
The minute someone starts making a "well *my* bigotry is acceptable and not really racism because teh power structure" argument, then you have entered the world of what is known as "special pleading," and special pleading always merits hard scrutiny (and, usually, contempt).
And listen: the reason I normally do not engage in this arena on Twitter is precisely because I think that, despite sometimes getting behind the wrong avatars, the #BLM movement has a core, deeply powerful and socially important point. Which extends beyond mere police shootings.
Black lives matter not just when they're extinguished. They matter when they're sentenced to prison wildly disproportionately and their lives are destroyed and toyed with by a state power which bears (yes it's true) marks of institutional racism: nashvillepublicradio.org/post/he-heads-…
All of this is true. And yet.
And yet.
Don't BS me by pulling a social-power move and reversing polarities by saying now that racism can only go one way (functionally, forever). Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. I will not allow ppl to steal that rhetorical ground.
And yet.
Don't BS me by pulling a social-power move and reversing polarities by saying now that racism can only go one way (functionally, forever). Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. I will not allow ppl to steal that rhetorical ground.
Typical response from jagoffs on other side when someone makes this point is "the lady doth protest too much" or some variety thereof. But they know the game they're up to. Public discourse is about claiming ground. I really just don't care about anything save what is true.
With all that said, I will return to relatively noncontroversial tweets about 1980s synth-pop bands.
