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comment by Herunar
Herunar  ·  3423 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An essay about explaining racism from the guy who wrote "Go the Fuck to Sleep"

It is most certainly true that we do like to talk about racism - that is definitely our strength in a sense. I'd probably argue that most Western countries do have quite a bit of racism systematically ingrained in their societies, but few of them like to talk about it. Hell, most of the time discourse there tends to boil down to arguments that there isn't -actually- that much racism at all and it's just people complaining about nothing. It really is an infuriating statement.