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Written by Lime Buzz (fae/she) on 2024-12-27 at 06:52

100 Ways White People Can Make Life Less Frustrating For People of Color

https://beehaw.org/post/17773001

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Written by harl3k1n@feddit.org on 2024-12-27 at 10:33

There is actually only one way. Don’t treat people differently because of their skin colour.

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Written by flora_explora@beehaw.org on 2024-12-27 at 12:49

This sounds an awful lot like “I don’t see color” and is a pretty ignorant take. How do you prevent treating people differently while there is systemic discrimination giving people power over others and leading to a complicated web of privileges? Saying “don’t treat people differently” is ignoring the systemic level of racism (and other forms of discrimination). You don’t get absolved about confronting yourself with your own privileges and position of power over others just because you pretend to treat everyone equally. And I’m fact I don’t think you can treat all people equally. Think of people you have a relationship with vs strangers for example.

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Written by harl3k1n@feddit.org on 2024-12-27 at 13:07

I didn’t say treat all people equally. What I say is don’t treat people differently just because of the color of their skin.

There are nice people and there are arsehole people, that applies to every skin colour. But you must nor make a pre-selection based on skin colour.

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Written by flora_explora@beehaw.org on 2024-12-27 at 15:34

Yes, I agree that this is important and should be standard behavior. I was criticizing you saying “there is only one way” and then only looking at the individual level. My point is that this isn’t sufficient, people have to consider and dismantle discrimination on structural level or we won’t get rid of it. The article does discuss discrimination on an individual and also structural level. You seemingly disagreed saying that the only way is to not treat people differently. Like I said, this won’t be sufficient and is only scratching the surface.

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Written by harl3k1n@feddit.org on 2024-12-27 at 18:26

You have to start somewhere…

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