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galen  ·  3231 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear White America

I'd really appreciate if you'd frame your response as a critique, not a (for lack of a better word) salty parody. This comment accomplishes little. That said:

- Yancy never says white America are all the same. The fact that white people are all racist does not imply that we are all the same in other aspects, and suggesting that it does is a childish fallacy.

- Yancy never claims that white America can't suffer at the hands of others. He just wants us to acknowledge that whateber suffering we experience in white bodies would be magnified in a black body, and accept the call to action that that acknowledgement entails.

- The issue is not that "others who looked like you gave someone who looks like me bad experiences first." The issue is that the continuing legacy of those bad experiences impacts and oppresses people of color to this day, and white America, in our failure to acknowledge and speak out against said legacy, becomes complicit in it.

(To your signature, Yancy is a professor in one of the top 20 philosophy departments in the country, and a well-respected scholar on race.)

(I had you muted for a while after a previous discussion on race. That discussion and now this comment, compared to your tone and contributions elsewhere on the site--which convinced me to unmute you--make me think you're falling prey to irrationality and anger.)