Are White Women Better Now? - The Atlantic
A woman from San Francisco had started crying before she even began speaking. “I'm here because I'm a racist. I'm here because my body has a trauma response to my own whiteness and other people's whiteness.” A woman who loved her cats was struggling with “how to understand all the atrocities of being a white body.” Knowing that her very existence perpetuated whiteness made her feel like a drag on society. “The darkest place I go is thinking it would be better if I weren't here. It would at least be one less person perpetuating these things.”
Quinn understood; that was normal. He just needed to try again, say “I am a racist” and believe it. The man said: “I am racist.” What did he feel? He said he was trying not to fight it. Say it again. “I am racist.”
“That's beautiful,” Quinn said.
Some members of the group were having a breakthrough. One woman realized she was “a walking, talking node of white supremacy.”
The essay had no real conclusion but as always DEI seminars are inadvertently hilarious.
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The best part is that her fellow attendees criticised her for being racist against BIPOC, because such a sentiment is "othering", "erasing", etc etc.
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I hope she gets reincarnated into a woman in some random Indian village.
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If you read on you'll find out how the group then took turns, one by one, explaining to Stacy how thinking that was extremely racist. Now I am going to have to report you for racism as well.
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I hope shes a white woman again
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I don't think there's a single person in the universe who would honestly rather be a black or brown woman than a white (or possibly fair skinned east asian) woman.
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I wouldn't want to be any woman, tbh.
Being a dude rocks
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Rachel Dolezal, but there's a number of others.
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