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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
One of my favorite things to do is get into a candid conversation about race with a white person. If you get them talking long enough you'll almost always get them to expose some prejudiced viewpoints.
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Prejudiced viewpoints? or inartful statements one can interpret as prejudiced?
The biggest obstacle I find, is the countering narrative of celebrating all differences [that are 'positive'] and ignoring all differences [that might seem 'negative'].
'White people' aren't even advised which differences are beautiful and which are verboten. MoF, most often 'anti-racists' posit that it's a conversation we're not even allowed to have.
We're called on to empathize with pain 'we can never understand' [an oxymoron on its face].
If you don't engage, you're shunned as a bigot, and if you do engage you're shunned as 'paternalistic' or prying, yet everyone insists some vague amorphous 'conversation' that is fraught with deadly potholes direly needs to take place.