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Racism does depend on your perspective. It looks really fucking different to the people who support and propagate it, than it does to its targets, victims, and survivors. That’s by design.
I’m white. But I recognize the chilling terror in this mob. As a woman and a lesbian, I recognize the existential threat of mob of entitled white men with parents and teachers who will defend literally anything they do. Literally. Anything.
That’s what that Smirk-Heard-Round-The-World signifies.
You.
Are.
My.
Toy.
You are so inferior to me that I could do anything to you. And there’s nothing you can do about it.
You.
Are.
My.
Toy.
You are so inferior to me that I could do anything to you. And there’s nothing you can do about it.
Anyone doubt for one second that if Smirk had shot the Native elder dead in cold blood, the jeers would have raged even harder? Lord of the Flies style? And the same troll army, the same publicist, would have rolled out video to claim it was his victim’s fault.
If you doubt that, you missed the point of that book when it was assigned to you in junior high.
