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outset (usually banning if not destroying the Other's language), such that in order to be heard at all one must fully come into the identity of the Self (but due to the second class mentioned earlier, only the first class can ever properly speak as Subject).
June 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
identifying with the Other, then colonisation is the exact opposite of Immanuel: forcing the Other to identify with oneself (which necessarily creates a second class of Self, not a true sharing of Self), stealing all the resources of the Other for one's own enrichment, silencing the Other from the
June 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
P.S. 5. is also paternalism, which is another form of systemic racism—again, and input into the feedback loop (6b)
February 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
8. Nothing changes.
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
person also faces social mores that require them to offer peace and special thanks for "reaching out", but this is only the unconscious demand of those individuals for false reassurance that they aren't bad apples and therefore are discharged from the work of self-reflection and changing the system.
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
in fact the ability to name racism and try to educate the big group about it is also a demonstration of resilience and power, trauma notwithstanding.

7. Individual members of the big group reach out to person, expressing personal regret and sorrow as a show of solidarity. See 3. above, but here the
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
further guilt and burden of having failed to properly educate and act for change, which was the original intent. Big group may further encourage or even heroicise person for having spoken up, which adds to the feedback loop of racialised experiences being victimising, humiliating and pitiful, when
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
apple as "racist".

6b. Or person may not share further info because after a lifetime of experience they can already anticipate the above type of response (6a.), not to mention the secondary trauma (4.). In this scenario big group more so does nothing proactive or productive, and person may absorb
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
6. Person may or may not share further information.

6a. If they do, it may be underwhelming for the big group, and in any case the natural impulse is to further bury the call upon the big group to reflect upon their own personal and systemic biases by externalising the one-off event or the one bad
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
5. Big group requests more information about the "isolated" event in order to litigate for justice on behalf of the person, which is justice denied because the big group ipso facto failed to hear the real information that racism is everywhere, but mostly unconscious for everyone within the big group
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
3. Big group misunderstands the person's narrative as an isolated and thus readily redressable event, expressing shock and deep concern as a show of solidarity

4. Person experiences secondary trauma because the narrative they shared as a gift in order to educate is minimised & devalued as a one-off
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
traitors.
December 8, 2024 at 9:16 PM