ext_6524 ([identity profile] marydell.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] 50books_poc 2011-06-28 10:47 pm (UTC)

I think there is a group of words that means, in one way or another, "serving to perpetuate or defend oppression in one of its forms," that are necessary parts of any anti-oppression discussion, bui that are also often interpreted as insults. "Racist," "sexist," etc. White people particularly get our panties in a twist over the word "racist," or any implication that points to that word, which makes discussing racism with us extremely tedious for many POC, from what I can see. So I think any suggestion that "insults are not ok" would need to have some kind of clarification that calling someone privileged or invoking -isms are not insults, or not usually anyway.

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