Wait I thought when ppl said "racist phase" they meant "time when I hadn't deconstructed racist societal beliefs" phase what do you mean these people were ACTUALLY going out there and being racist like on purpose đ
Baby Iâm so sorry but a LOT of white people had periods of time as kids or even early adults where they regularly regurgitated slurs and direct racism and performed cruelty on racialized people. It can legitimately anywhere from âsaying slurs on COD at 12â to âputting various unsanitary and hard to remove things into Black classmates hairâ to âexcluded racialized kids around them because they were yucky/etc.â to âassaulting racialized people around themâ to âspent time on /b/ and gained standard 4chan racism brainwormsâ
You also straight-up canât guess what itâll be until they mention it or it jumps out. As an example, back in montana there was a white woman in my local kink community who was generally SO fucking sweet, kind, and caring to everyone around her, including me. One day she posted this on Facebook out of literal nowhere:
And doubled down after I called her on it.
Please understand that âhasnât deconstructed racist social beliefsâ means âcan and will use racism when useful or they think theyâre safe to, or will engage in white solidarityâ
If they havenât actually put in the work to destroy the white supremacy theyâve been internalizing from society their whole life, this can be basically any white person, at any time, no matter how theyâve behaved previously and how much you think theyâd never do something like that.
The racist phases are real, and often havenât had the work done to truly end either.