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"The conservative movement doesn’t understand anti-racism as a value, only as a rhetorical pose. This is how you end up tarring the oldest integrationist group in the country (the NAACP) as racist. The slur has no real moral content to them. It’s all a game of who can embarrass who. If you don’t think racism is an actual force in the country, then you can only understand its invocation as a tactic."
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Ta-Nehisi Coates. (via liberalsarecool)

This is actually true, and springs from failure to distinguish general dickishness (such as name-calling and self-righteous finger pointing) from actions that disadvantage members of a particular group in objective, concrete ways. If someone’s feelings get hurt by a person of a different race, that’s dickishness. If members of one race are disproportionately likely to be killed by police, convicted of crimes, offered a substandard mortgage, etc — THAT is racism.

(via shiracoffee)

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