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pyrrhonic  ·  3388 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's a White Man's Internet

    It baffles me when I hear about "People of Colour only" spaces. Why would you ever want to promote segregation?

Dylann Roof was welcomed with open arms into a black church, and look where that got the churchgoers. The point of black-only, or POC-only, or women-only spaces is to feel a certain level of safety and be able to discuss one's experiences and perspectives without having white people/men dominate the conversation. Usually whites/men do this without even realizing it besause they are just used to their own entitlement.

    There is an argument I see thrown around a lot which concludes that [...] It is impossible for a non-white person to be racist.

I have to agree it'd pretty absurd. Some of the most extreme ugliness I've seen was between Asians and blacks.