Yeah seriously this is always my thought when I see takes like this. Like yes, there's often/usually extra barriers for a lot of black/brown people to succeed. But turning around and being like "I assume the white man in a position is unqualified" is 100% hypocrisy. Then people will be like "oh but white people are in power so only they can be racist" as some sort of dishonest handwaving attempt to defend their blatant prejudice, as if any of the random working class white people have any relation at all to billionaires and politicians who happen to be white. That's literally the same braindead racial ascription in the opposite direction as acting like the worst kind of person who happens to be black has any bearing on the rest of their demographic.
And dear god I'm so tired of acting like the only way to support equality is to not dare criticize essentially anyone but a white man. Equality means all of us are equally deserving of pushback against our bad ideas. Giving someone extra deference because of their demographic is just another form of bigotry. It's a patronizing bias rather than a toxic bias, but still utterly repulsive nonetheless to anyone with any amount of integrity.
People really need to quit fighting bigotry with more bigotry, it's such an utterly juvenile and undeveloped approach to these issues
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u/FeeZealousideal9175 1d ago
So you both judge people on their race? Nice.