Steve QJ
Mar 31, 2021

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I honestly don't see it that way. This is how many of us are TAUGHT to see it. But it's the idea that's the problem. It's the idea that it's possible to refer to a black person in a way that's inherently demeaning. Why should this be true? Why is there no equivalent for people of any other colour or any other type?

I can't separate the idea that there's an inherently demeaning way to refer to black people from the idea that there's something inherently demeaning about being black. Once you're truly free of the latter idea, the former makes no sense.

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Steve QJ
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