The pervasiveness of racism in everyday life.

[Eliot Rosewater]

I was on the phone with a friend, inviting him to an NAACP event and he had me on speaker and with him was a friend of his who is not a liberal as far as I know.

My friend is, everyone in this story is W by the way (I dont use the full word, gets WAY too much attention.)

When I mentioned the event and NAACP his friend in the background started laughing about how they even still existed and how we better not show up with black-face HA HA HA HA!

My friend kinda shut that shit down and we changed topics, but this idiot has NO CLUE what he is saying could be offensive and absolutely DOES NOT care!

The ONLY situation where he would CARE is if he said it in a room of POC or WOKE W people and he received the appropriate negative attention.

Pervasive, daily,everywhere, constant.

[MH1]

1. ...

as a W I can only offer support, and say I would say something to the idjit if he did that in front of me. But you're right, it would have to be a room full of us, or at least woke folk / POC in the majority, for it to really have the proper effect.

[Ohiogal]

2. It constantly astonishes me

how many racist assholes there are in the world today.

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3. speaking as a "w",

i rather doubt the friend has "no clue" and "does not care".

ok, maybe it's barely possible, but these people who always seem to be spoiling for a confrontation serve as enforcers of a particular social hierarchy, with "w" of course at the top.

they see people getting out of line and a sense of duty stirs within them to enforce their preferred social order.


they very likely know damn well they're offending you (and others) but see it as their duty to do so. hell, they may even think they're doing you a favor, after all, other enforcers might do even worse than crack an offensive "joke".


but yeah, it's everywhere, all the time. a "w" turns america into a russian puppet state, committing a ton of crimes in the process, he's practically untouchable in the highest office. someone else takes a knee and his career is over.

this is the real battle. people obsess over removing donnie, as if a slightly premature termination from one man's temp job is really going to change much. the war they are fighting is for the twisted social order which america has tried for ages to leave in its ugly past. it's being fought on many fronts, and we have to fight on all of them.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. I should have modified how I said that, I know they know their actions are vile

but what they dont know and dont want to learn is how their actions in the past and even still in the present lead to horrific outcomes for everyday lives.

They dont know or dont care to find out but sure, they know they are assholes.

[Garrett78]

5. And 1 of the most underreported consequences is the toll it takes on health, physical and otherwise.

Also, it is single-handedly keeping the Republican Party alive. There is no Republican Party without racism. At least not at the national level.