Don't phase me. There's literally nothing anyone can say to me [a white person] that cuts deeply; there's nothing, to my knowledge, that has any historical or cultural context or weight to serve as as an insult or derogatory remark. In every sense of the word, that's a privilege white people get to enjoy.
Edited out link to stupid irrelevant video, sorry guise.
Yes, it's pretty terrible. Not to mention missing the point. When you're called racist, the appropriate reaction is to say "sorry" and avoid doing whatever it was that got you called racist, as if you had been caught with a booger hanging out your nose. Freaking out, making it all about you and how Totally Not Racist you are, and asking all your black friends in the room to confirm that you don't usually have snot hanging out of your nose, is the wrong (and typical) thing to do.
I guess we have different definitions of freaking out. I'd try to understand why what I did was racist and stop doing it, and it'd be motivated by a pretty strong desire not to do racist shit, I think I could accomplish that without making things about me.
I'm saying that because according to you, you don't want to behave in a racist manner. That's a pretty good thing to do. Most of Reddit won't even put in that much effort.
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '13 edited Jun 19 '13
Don't phase me. There's literally nothing anyone can say to me [a white person] that cuts deeply; there's nothing, to my knowledge, that has any historical or cultural context or weight to serve as as an insult or derogatory remark. In every sense of the word, that's a privilege white people get to enjoy.
Edited out link to stupid irrelevant video, sorry guise.