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Re: Carol Thatch
Feb 10, 2009, 10:46
Is it me, or is there a clear contradiction between this

suave harv wrote:
there is no doubt that her utterance was racist. It described a race of people in a negative way.


and this

suave harv wrote:
What I don't like is the assumption that if someone uses a certain word they're instantly labeled a 'racist'.


There are certainly degrees of racism, and as you make clear, there are those like your mum who uses racist language and yet isn't an active hateful racist.

The thing is, it's that casual, socially embedded racism that lets the active racism flourish. It makes the hateful racist feel they're drawing on a widespread discontent. It also serves to make anyone not white feel like they have a major struggle to be taken as an equal. Hell, if people can denigrate your entire ethnicity and not even 'mean anything' by it, what hope for real respect?

It's only by examining the power of the words we use, consciously considering the rules and norms we're handed down can we unpick ourselves from many of the damaging activities that they steer us towards.
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