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I am a dipshitted 20th century racist.
I spend 30 or 32 years being a leftist and thinking that because I could point out everyone else's racism I must not be racist.
Well fuck me when I finally had a very brave black acquaintance say no PEB you are a ignorant racist and you don't even know it. Microaggressions for the loss.
I spent a few more years denying it. Then one day it came to me that yeah ... I have a ton of racist baggage that I don't know how to address. I have spent about 20 years since then reading, watching, listening, writing, and speaking and fighting it out with my stupidity and when I could talk to people about it.
Some of the needle moved from my intellectual efforts, but I'm still so nervous around black people that I'm scared of doing some microaggression and pushing someone into beating the shit out of me that I act super too nice which is just another fucking microaggression.
And then when I'm hurt or vulnerable it all falls apart and all my efforts fail and I end up experiencing feelings of racism yet again.
I hate it about me. But yeah if me this dipshit leftist can struggle to come to understand that I am still racist ... I don't know. I'm pretty dumb so I see myself as below average intelligence with a big mouth.
But maybe everyone else here has this figured out, and Kagan is writing to me specifically about the stupid racism.
I don't think so, but maybe.
Care to actually describe what those "racist feelings" were?
I mean that's the thing to do, be continually (not constantly, that's too often and too stressful) reevaluating your intentional thoughts and actions and seeing where you can do better.
so youre saying youre... Afraid for your safety around black people because you got beaten up for something you said at some point? That doesnt sound like self awareness or a micro aggression, that sounds like trauma from catching the wrong person on the wrong day
No. They never said that. You just made it up.
Completely fabricates a quote, and multiple people still upvote it. The fuck?