Sure, “brown people are scary” is its own thing for white people (and not even restricted to men, necessarily), but that’s an “othering” issue. Whereas I sometimes I hear dudes talking about making a woman obviously nervous by being alone with her in an elevator/on a dark street/etc., and they assume it’s because she was racist, and my response is, “Well, maybe, but have you considered that just being a man was enough to make her reasonably nervous?” The idea that the fear exists, and understandably so, is a blind spot for all men.
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