Again, you're implying they're guilty because they're white. Students who want to have a discussion/protest about racial discrimination shouldn't engage in racial stereotyping or racial segregation. If they're so emotionally disturbed that they're triggered by the mere presence of a white student, then they probably shouldn't be at a protest that *should* be about racial unity.
Again, you're implying they're guilty because they're white.
No, you are. I think that's the problem. Individual guilt is not relevant here.
If they're so emotionally disturbed that they're triggered by the mere presence of a white student, then they probably shouldn't be at a protest that *should* be about racial unity.
Wait, a bunch of people meet to discuss something important to them and you dictate what "*should*" be on the agenda?!? Dude . . . really? Wow.
We might just have identified the problem. If someone—and that could well mean you—has never suffered the kind of persistent denigration sadly often suffered by racial, gender, religious, and sexual/gender orientation minorities in a society, that someone might very well not understand why those students acted as they did.
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Date: 2015-12-05 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-05 07:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-05 06:29 pm (UTC)No, you are. I think that's the problem. Individual guilt is not relevant here.
If they're so emotionally disturbed that they're triggered by the mere presence of a white student, then they probably shouldn't be at a protest that *should* be about racial unity.
Wait, a bunch of people meet to discuss something important to them and you dictate what "*should*" be on the agenda?!? Dude . . . really? Wow.
We might just have identified the problem. If someone—and that could well mean you—has never suffered the kind of persistent denigration sadly often suffered by racial, gender, religious, and sexual/gender orientation minorities in a society, that someone might very well not understand why those students acted as they did.
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Date: 2015-12-09 01:30 am (UTC)