You’re right but the realisation that non-racist communication is also non-asshole communication surely is worth the discussion?
For me the not asking the job question and assuming you deserve personal information were already parts of my interactions. To be honest I hadn’t really considered them from a perspective of racism. Explicitly. So I hope I’m learning here.
Sorry, got off track, but the original article was about the intersection of white privilege and jobs, so…
So it IS on topic!
Honestly, it has been an education for me how much stuff I never had thought of as “white” really and truly is absolutely melanin free. As i said at the very beginning of this thread, we often don’t see the whiteness of the culture for the same reason fish don’t see the water.
I’ve always been unsure of how to answer that question. I must have lived in ten states in my life, but no foreign countries. I say “all over”, “flyover country”, or just pick a city at random that maybe I lived in, maybe I didn’t. “All over” seems to piss people off. I’m not sure if it’s because they’re trying to relate to me but I’m giving them nothing, because they feel entitled to the info, or because they’re sizing up my social status. From reading this thread, I think it may be entitlement and social status more than anything else.
White culture = silence about embedded white supremacy
I wonder who is allowed to hide behind the costumes of hate? After all, for most of its existence Klan members did not wear hoods. And on Aug 11, the uniform of the neo-Nazi was the uniform of every white man. Hate is right there staring us in the face. It’s at our tables. It’s in our beds. How many white Americans are descended from people who were involved in lynchings? Whose parents and grandparents also marched with torches to terrorize our neighbors? And yet, White America is surprised every time hate is unmasked. Grabbing our pearls shocked. As if we, by our silence, had not participated in the cover up.
What a jerk. That commercial is cute.
Also, my history education k-12 was severely lacking (as was probably most of ours) but one thing they hammered on every year was the notion of USA as “the great melting pot.”
Did they not teach that part in ID?
Do they still teach that anymore, or have bigoted parents protested that out of existence, too?
Sort of. I think it’s now more of a “salad bowl” approach, where difference is still discernible (and appreciated), rather than melted away via assimilation (which mostly meant trying to become “white”).
A salad where the iceberg lettuce keeps trying to kill all the other veggies.
Similar stuff I found when looking at Star Trek: Discovery on IMDB yesterday. The user reviews’ top review was chock full of anti-LGBTQ and anti-diversity b.s. statements. Today, user reviews for the show are not showing up.
“This is not what Star Trek was intended to be!”
Yeah, see “How do I avoid “woke” in the X-Men series.” Assholes are seemingly incapable of understanding that most of us nerds envision a better world as one where equality and respect are very broadly applied, not restricted. Because if they did, it would make them the bad guys. Which they are, of course.
The Borg, or at least Cardassians.
Was a forced kiss though. 
True, but to be fair, her role as Lt. Uhura was groundbreaking.
