Steve QJ
2 min readMar 7, 2021

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This is the problem with discourse today. People minds are so broken by binaries like black and white, republican and conservative, left and right, that they've lost the ability to process ideas with any nuance. I couldn't be further from a conservative if I tried. Read some of my articles on politics. See how conservative I am.

Again. Do you think that black people aren't already aware of their experience? Do you think we need those articles so that we know racism exists? You know who these articles are really for? White people! Articles don't create reality, how obviously absurd. They create a perception of reality (for people who aren't actually living it) that is so warped that a white man feels comfortable arrogantly criticising a black man for his thoughts about articles which mischaraterise HIS OWN EXPERIENCE.

I've already told you how preposterous it is to think that I'm saying that not talking about racism makes it cease to exist. Why are you still repeating this asinine accusation? I'm not pushing anything. I'm stating the fact that too many of the articles written about race today are pure self-serving bullshit which only serve to increases division.

You think that articles about the "Four Words You Should Stop Saying To Black People" actually help us? You think people write them because they think it's going to end racism? You think that racists will read them and take notes and stop discriminating?

These articles are for people like you, so that you get to feel like you're one of the "good whites" when you say you'd never dream of saying any of those things. They attract clicks and outrage. They make money. They preach meaninglessly to the converted. And they make the genuine work of anti-racism look ridiculous by association.

They are ammunition for the conservatives who are just dying to say, "Look how ridiculous this whole anti-racism thing is. All they have left to talk about is racist old ladies and microaggressions". The countless articles using "white people" as a pejorative, allow people, some of whom might even have been reachable, to dismiss black people as just as racist as those they're claiming to fight.

Believe me when I say, I have thought about these issues far more deeply and for far longer than you have. I'm always happy to have a conversation. But if all you have are stupid assertions and arrogance, take them elsewhere.

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Steve QJ
Steve QJ

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