This isn’t new; this editor went to college back in the ’80s and they were trying to make the argument that only white people could be racist because they already held all the power. And for the same reason, that’s why blacks couldn’t be racist — because they were oppressed by white people. As Dr. Leah Torres says, it’s all about the “power dynamic.”
So we guess all those tweets by Sarah Jeong and Saira Rao that we thought were racist against whites were just speaking truth to power.
Apparently people do *not* know this?
“Reverse racism” is NOT a thing.
“Racist against white people” is NOT a thing.
Racism is a power dynamic of oppressor over the oppressed, and guess what…
White people are the oppressor.
There’s no other version of the dynamic.
— Leah Torres, MD (@LeahNTorres) December 13, 2021
Does this hold true universally or is it just an American thing? Because we can think of other versions of the dynamic.
https://twitter.com/DMcWildin/status/1470536118408036356
Correct. “Reverse racism” is NOT a thing, it's just called racism. ✌️
— 🎃CT🎃 (@CaffeineTweaker) December 14, 2021
I mean you are definitely right that "reverse racism" is not a thing. It's just regular racism and everyone can do it.
— victims, aren't we all (@TooDarkPark) December 14, 2021
Please take time during the holiday season @LeahNTorres to reflect on how your deeply held worldview is substantially shared by @RichardBSpencer
You might be shocked to learn you are far from alone in believing in the uniquely world history-altering agency of Europeans!
— ib (@lndian_Bronson) December 14, 2021
https://twitter.com/yipoff/status/1470831419492638733
You don't need to use so many words to say "I don't know what racism means".
— Mumboejumboh (@Mumboejumboh) December 14, 2021
Power dynamic has no part in it.
Using that as a qualifier, you only seek to excuse the behavior of a racist person.
— RAndrewCastel (@RAndrewCastel) December 14, 2021
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Bingo.
Power dynamics work on scale. A black teacher making racist remarks to a white student is the teacher using their elevated power dynamic to oppress that student
The world literally isn't black and white
— Shangori (@ShangoriGannos) December 14, 2021
Nope. You are experiencing a delusion brought on by sealing yourself within an ideological bubble and thinking only in academic-theoretical jargon.
The things that you believe about race are not physically real and existent. Essentially, you live in a kind of simulated reality.
— Kyochi Myogo (@Kyochi_Myogo) December 14, 2021
I love how much you're getting ratio'd over this
— ₊˚✩ Nitr0gen 🇦🇶 ₊˚✩ (@Nitr0gen_Shark) December 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/Xenosryugan/status/1470884737963073542
You clearly had way too many boosters 😅
— Adel (@AdeldMeyer) December 15, 2021
Once again a checkmark proving the university system is a net negative.
— Rush (@clayrush707) December 14, 2021
We make up our own definitions here in 🤡🌎
— Ginsengtea (@Ginsengtea4) December 15, 2021
this is a useless definition that falls apart the very moment you consider other countries and the only reason people use it is to give people an excuse to be racist against white people without consequences
— Jeni 🇺🇸 (@MostBoringJeni) December 14, 2021
https://twitter.com/Foxy47469204/status/1470778689831018518
Just erase this..
— Erlend Aas (@erlendaas13) December 15, 2021
People 'know' this. They are just not buying it.
— Mariner (@mariner5112) December 15, 2021
Everyone has power. Everyone can oppress. The smallest unit of oppression is someone simply wronging someone else.
— Joshua McNabintosh (@radicalbarks) December 14, 2021
Wrong. Racism is racism, even if it's not a government doing it.
Your tweet is racism too, since you're falsely accusing all "white people" of being oppressors.
— Luke Dashjr (@LukeDashjr) December 14, 2021
Why do you promote a single *western* theoretical approach to opposing racism? Expecting every culture to assimilate to your assumptions about race? Casting opportunities to learn from more diverse philosophical, etc. backgrounds aside?
Sounds pretty prejudiced 😬
Do better 👏
— PixelatedBoot (stamping on a human face – forever) (@PixelatedBoot) December 14, 2021
— FinalMasterM (@finalmasterm0dx) December 14, 2021
That’s actually literally not true or accurate at all
— King Canute (@canute_king) December 14, 2021
It’s rare to see a tweet this long where literally every sentence is wrong, but somehow you managed to pull it off.
— Ron Rule 🏴 (@ronrule) December 15, 2021
No, that’s systemic racism. Racism is simply a prejudicial action towards another based on their race or ethnicity. pic.twitter.com/janMKNW8nC
— blank® (@TheLocalGod) December 15, 2021
The only way a person could believe that "there is no other dynamic", is if you fundamentally agreed with the premise that white people are, in fact, superior and indominatable. The only difference is that you instead feel bad about it, or at least claim you do.
— Chris Ward (@MasterWambo) December 15, 2021
Everything in this tweet is wrong. That's hard to do.
— Tom Hiorns (@tomhiorns) December 15, 2021
The actual definition of racism mentions nowhere that someone has to be in power or in the majority to be racist.
— Punished Grau Tsundere (@KillLaLollipop) December 15, 2021
Blah blah. We get it. You just want to do all these gymnastics to justify two wrongs make a right. That's what it all comes down to in the end.
— Typical Manga Fan (@TypicalMangaFan) December 14, 2021
This isn’t new and it’s stupid.
Related:
Anti-racist SJW Saira Rao informs white people that nonwhite friends who don’t ‘regularly [challenge] your whiteness’ probably ‘don’t trust you’ https://t.co/VIOjdjfLse
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 5, 2021
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