madame thursday“
Yes. It’s a classic accountability dodge: Everybody hurts, but no one’s doing the hurting.
If you can see that fallacy in HS’s writing, if you can hear it in an abuser’s retelling of abuse they themselves perpetrated, if you can spot it in a preference for passive voice versus active, and so on? You have no excuse for not being able to see it in racism. Racism IS abuse.
That’s why Jane Elliott refusing to let the white woman apologize for “racism in this country” is so important. I don’t care how MEAN you think it is; that was absolutely necessary for her to do. She had to put a stop to the accountability dodge—“racism in this country,” that gosh, nobody knows how it got there and nobody nowadays perpetuates? No.
”— anoldladyonfire commenting on the Jane Elliott “Angry Eye” video. link to post/thread; includes more commentary & an animated GIF [WARNING for racism] (via numol)
(Source: eshusplayground)
