i.e. “a concerted effort”. If you only hang with your own, that’s deliberate.
As a baseline, how many people do you encounter daily?
I mean, Cape Town is hella segregated, but I encounter people of all ethnicities all the time. Hell, East Asians are <0.1% of the population, and I see some weekly (not friends, I just mean on the street)
That’s… kinda a collective effort, not an individual one.
Sure, but it’s still one you have to go along with.
But you don’t learn a lot about someone’s experiences if you just pass them on the street from time to time.
Heck, I have Black relatives (my son married a mixed race woman) but they don’t chat with me about the experience of being Black very often.
I was replying to doreen’s “don’t encounter at all”. I do have East Asian friends, actually. I don’t see them as regularly as East-Asian-on-the-Street, but I’ve certainly talked to them about racism and sexism etc.
The more I post here, the more I realise how anomalous my entire circle must be, that we talk about this kind of thing all the time.
That’s why I’m glad your stubborn arse is here. You have a unique perspective on many issues.
I think that is unusual. My SIL is east Asian. I think she was actually born in China, although her accent says she grew up in the US. We are fairly friendly, and talk frequently. I know a lot about the trials of her job, what real estate she likes, all sorts of stuff. But I can’t recall her talking about the experience of being a Chinese American.
I guess my Chinese-American college roommate has talked more about that. It’s affected her more as a member of a Jewish congregation, where people look at her face and assume she’s not Jewish, than in her general life. But stuff got a lot worse during the pandemic, when “Asian hate” got popular.
Ahhhh.
In America, the only thing on the streets are cars. 
I do come from a background of taking a small part in active revolutionary political struggle starting in my teens, so this has never been just an academic exercise for me. When 13 y.o’s are debating the pros and cons of armed resistance to a very real oppressive regime in the playground, and when school comrades don’t show up because they’re imprisoned (or dead, at some schools), you soon learn that not paying attention to the politics around you can be lethal…
No doubt one of the reasons Max’s “Black Lives Matter? What’s that?” bullshit annoys me as it does. I guess I’m just an easily-triggered woke snowflake…
I’m guessing around 50 or 60 when I was working (up until a few weeks ago) , not counting people I just pass on the street , which I didn’t consider an encounter and would have no way to count but I guess that would raise it a bit . Fewer now. But although I myself am a non-Hispanic white, I neither restrict myself to my own group nor deliberately avoid it. Nearly all of my neighbors are black, Hispanic or Asian, and all but one of my coworkers in an office of 75 were black , Hispanic or Indian. The clients served at that office were maybe 20% white but I didn’t actually have contact with many of them. Most of the people working in stores and at medical offices (including the doctors) that I encounter are not non-Hispanic whites My husband is Chinese, which means that I never even encountered white people within my own household, since my kids identify as bi-racial. My relatives are mostly (but not entirely) non-Hispanic whites and my husband and I have some non-Hispanic white friends but we don’t see them even as often as every month.
“Meet on the street” is a pre-COVID idea. It is no longer operative.
I speak to Black people, even during the pandemic. Just not about racism or politics.
I don’t think it is reasonable to expect a Black person who receives the email to, more likely than not, suffer extreme emotional distress. Putting myself in the defendant’s position: If the imagery triggers the recipient’s traumatic stress disorder, that’s not my responsibility because it would be unreasonable to assume she suffers from that disorder. If she decides anybody willing to compare abortion to the KKK or eugenics is acting in bad faith, that is from my perspective an unreasonable decision and I cannot be held responsible if she feels threatened.
~Max
“I speak to Black people. Just not about anything that actually matters”
Even when Black people tell you different…
The motherfucking arrogance of the unrepentant, unreflective racist on display.
They only say so after the fact!
~Max
Fucking troll
Do you yelp in pain before or after you are slapped in the face?
After. Want to pursue this line of thought? Why do I know a person will feel pain if I slap them in the face? Because I’ve seen it before, both on me and on others. It’s almost like a rule, if you hit someone, they will feel pain.
~Max
I don’t believe you, as you only now claim that it hurts after the fact.
I’m afraid you lost me.
~Max
Please do not feed the troll.