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"Why does everything have to be about race" good question, ask the white colonists

You can't dissociate from history "because it was a long time ago", when it literally is the reason power dynamics work the way they do now.
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BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
Talking about race has a time and a place. People wanna do it alllllll the time, and it's inappropriate.
offingg · 26-30, F
@BlueMetalChick Listen, when someone is a POC, they are are a POC alllllll the time, and they face discrimination as a result alllll the time, so yes it is ok to talk about it allllll the time. If you don't have to deal with it allll the time, then consider yourself lucky.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@offingg As a racial minority who is considered a second class citizen in most of the continent of Europe, I know this better than you do. It's not ok to talk about race alllllll the time because then you divide yourself and ensure that you will never fix the problem you suffer from. For that matter, you can't have a conversation with anyone about anything.
offingg · 26-30, F
@BlueMetalChick Wait.....how do you assume you know this better than I do when I'M poc myself? lol...........
offingg · 26-30, F
@BlueMetalChick I didn't divide myself, i didn't ask to be divided, I WAS DIVIDED. I can't fix a problem that I didn't create, but an entire race created FOR ME.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@offingg Because unless you and I are the same race, then you aren't banned from attending public schools, forbidden to enter banks and post offices, and denied healthcare solely because on your ethnicity in most of the Baltic States like I am.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@offingg If you don't want to fix a problem, why talk about it?
SW-User
Alllllllllllll by myself, don't wanna be allllllll by myself ... sorry, i just felt like this was great timing for this song.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@SW-User 😂😂
offingg · 26-30, F
@BlueMetalChick Now we're having oppression olympics bc I decided to talk about mY oppression while you stayed silent? Just bc your oppression is bigger than mine, doesn't mean my doesn't exist and doesn't mean I don't reserve the right to talk about it whenever I want. And I'm Arab, so.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@offingg Of course it doesn't mean your problems don't exist. The point of the comparison was to say that I know these things just as well, probably better, than you do. You doubted that and asked me how I knew that, so I told you.
offingg · 26-30, F
@BlueMetalChick Again with "probably better than you". You don't know me, how can you even assume that? I didn't assume it, I clearly said "IF YOU DON'T have to deal with it allll the time, then consider yourself lucky.".
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@offingg That's why I said "probably." Because it's likely, but not certain. This isn't that complicated.
offingg · 26-30, F
@BlueMetalChick Ok, what part of any of that does it make it not okay to talk ALL the time about something that I face ALL the time? Isn't that essentially my right?
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@offingg Exactly what kind of conversations are you turning into a race debate at all hours of the day? Are these topics which are already affected by racial issues? Or is it like "Hey what toppings should we get on the pizza?" "OMG THE WHITE COLONISTS!"