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#113

EVENT HORIZON

stop doing this shit. Black people have fucking asked and begged and insisted to stop doing this shit

-"I'm white but..."

-"I don't claim being white/nonpracticing white"/otherwise dissassociating yourself from whiteness. This is not the woke you think it is. You cannot separate yourself from the system of white supremacy, even if you're doing your best to fight it.

-using AAVE/ebonics to be funny or sound hip. Additionally: only ever expressing yourself using memes of Black people. This is digital blackface. This requires genuine self examination. Start noticing it. Start recognizing AAVE as a legitimate contributor to modern vernacular, and not as a way to make yourself sound better, or worse: funnier. Consider: why do you think that phrase that is AAVE sounds funnier? Is it because you consider AAVE intrinsically humorous, even without meaning to?

-Stop making excuses or playing devil's advocate on Black people's posts. They know. They do not need you there.

-STOP USING YOUR AUTISM AS A COMPARISON TO RACIAL INEQUITY AND A SHIELD FROM RACISM. Some of the most racist motherfuckers I have had the displeasure of knowing were autistic. You can be marginalized for your disability but be so fucking for real. Black people have it substantially and materially worse in a way that is not comparable to your marginalization. Black AUTISTIC people are an intersection that's never spoken about.

-Stop being so fucking embarassingly racist all the time because you can't take two seconds to think to yourself "what are the sociopolitical implications and ramifications of my statements, and what atmosphere does that contribute to here? Am I really fostering genuine discussion? Or am i just being loud in a Black space to prove how Not Racist I am."

tl;dr shut the fuck up.