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EarthExile t1_iu3wcym wrote

Reply to comment by Suspicious-Abies-653 in Any CT teachers in here? by [deleted]

Because parents often don't teach them, or teach the opposite on purpose. My parents raised me to be racist as shit, and the only reason I am not is that I got away and learned from other people.

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Suspicious-Abies-653 t1_iu3wzmq wrote

So your argument is “I know better than they do.”?

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EarthExile t1_iu3y54i wrote

Yes.

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Suspicious-Abies-653 t1_iu3yh0k wrote

I appreciate the honesty.

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EarthExile t1_iu3z6l2 wrote

There's no reason to dance around it. Racists are idiots, and society needs them not to fuck their kids up. The rest of us will have to deal with the adults they become.

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Suspicious-Abies-653 t1_iu48uus wrote

Can’t you understand that some parents may not agree with your world view, and that doesn’t make them racists?

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EarthExile t1_iu49ste wrote

My position is anti-racism, so... no. If people have a problem with anti-racism, they're racist. That's the only place the objection could come from.

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Suspicious-Abies-653 t1_iu4cyd2 wrote

Not necessarily. Just not believing that our culture is riddled from top to bottom with racism, or not thinking that a child’s education should be race first doesn’t make someone a racist. If it does you’re using a different definition or racist than what has been used for most of human history.

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EarthExile t1_iu4dj43 wrote

Believing that our culture is not riddled with the legacy and effects of racism is a way of being incorrect. It's the truth. Racism was literally the law for most of our history. I am married to someone a different color than me, which was illegal until just a few decades ago until a Supreme Court case had to override a lot of state laws. To pretend that racism is not woven into the fabric of American history and life is to be ignorant of reality.

And nobody's education is "race first."

This is why your perspective must be opposed and counteracted. If the ignorance is allowed to continue, the damage can never be healed.

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Suspicious-Abies-653 t1_iu4h1zy wrote

And our disagreement makes me a racist?

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EarthExile t1_iu4hex9 wrote

If your perspective is that America doesn't have a racism problem, then yeah. Ignorance and apathy are important parts of white supremacy. You don't have to scream slurs at people to participate in racism. Looking the other way does most of the harm by itself.

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Suspicious-Abies-653 t1_iu4ku65 wrote

So now because I don’t agree with you I’m a white supremacist and a racist. You know nothing about me other than that we disagree. Can you see how divisive and counter productive that position is, and how many people would not want their children indoctrinated with that?

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EarthExile t1_iu4n5pp wrote

I do see why a lot of people would not want their kids to learn about why their parents' beliefs are harmful and ignorant. That's why the parents must be countered. They are wrong.

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