MunkyMagic
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I’m mixed race and I 100% agree with John Barnes. This is white people being triggered into being horrified (did you see Holly Willoughby’s face ?) and POC being triggered into not contextualising what was actually said.
Where you get an over-compensating reaction and an angry reaction whipped up by selective reporting for headlines, the original message is lost. It was clumsy of Liam neeson but if people are not allowed to talk about their prejudice and how they fixed their prejudice in fear of a backlash we are doing ourselves a massive disservice. It’s like the terms xenophobe and racist and bigot are thrown around so much now they lose all impact* and that hinders social progression.
ETA:
*i love John Barnes example of “racial bias” rather than “racist” because it’s true.
If we want racism to stop we’ve got to allow dialogue to flow.
Where you get an over-compensating reaction and an angry reaction whipped up by selective reporting for headlines, the original message is lost. It was clumsy of Liam neeson but if people are not allowed to talk about their prejudice and how they fixed their prejudice in fear of a backlash we are doing ourselves a massive disservice. It’s like the terms xenophobe and racist and bigot are thrown around so much now they lose all impact* and that hinders social progression.
ETA:
*i love John Barnes example of “racial bias” rather than “racist” because it’s true.
If we want racism to stop we’ve got to allow dialogue to flow.
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