Comments on: Sixteen Maneuvers to Avoid Dealing with Racism http://threeriversblog.com/2008/03/sixteen-maneuvers-to-avoid-dealing-with-racism.html Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:12:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: dieselsandwich http://threeriversblog.com/2008/03/sixteen-maneuvers-to-avoid-dealing-with-racism.html#comment-10566 dieselsandwich Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:56:47 +0000 http://threeriversblog.com/2008/03/sixteen-maneuvers-to-avoid-dealing-with-racism/#comment-10566 "Makes you feel squirmy and defensive, doesn’t it?" More squirmy and creeped out because something way bigger than me is fucking with my perspective, my views, my ideals, my morals, my ethics and a lot of things that I hold dear to myself and turning me into a tool of oppression for a lot of people (not just people of color). Maybe a tiny, less obvious tool, but a tool nevertheless. And that is an unpleasant feeling. “Makes you feel squirmy and defensive, doesn’t it?”

More squirmy and creeped out because something way bigger than me is fucking with my perspective, my views, my ideals, my morals, my ethics and a lot of things that I hold dear to myself and turning me into a tool of oppression for a lot of people (not just people of color).

Maybe a tiny, less obvious tool, but a tool nevertheless. And that is an unpleasant feeling.

]]> By: paul http://threeriversblog.com/2008/03/sixteen-maneuvers-to-avoid-dealing-with-racism.html#comment-5851 paul Sun, 24 May 2009 07:50:30 +0000 http://threeriversblog.com/2008/03/sixteen-maneuvers-to-avoid-dealing-with-racism/#comment-5851 this is fantastic. i was getting really squirmy and then you made me really look it in the face this is fantastic. i was getting really squirmy and then you made me really look it in the face

]]> By: liveparadox http://threeriversblog.com/2008/03/sixteen-maneuvers-to-avoid-dealing-with-racism.html#comment-162 liveparadox Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:06:50 +0000 http://threeriversblog.com/2008/03/sixteen-maneuvers-to-avoid-dealing-with-racism/#comment-162 It's a bit late in the day to be replying, but what the heck--it's an eye-opener. Especially the part where I was getting all defensive and thinking, "I refuse to shoulder guilt as long as I shoulder my personal responsibility!" And then I read the commentary, and duh, that's exactly what you're saying. It's not about personal guilt so much as it's about personal, and collective, responsibility. If I may risk an analogy, I would say that in my understanding of it now, the system of racism can be compared to global warming and carbon footprints--there's a basic carbon footprint that none of us can escape, called breathing, which doesn't absolve anyone of the responsibility to mitigate the other ways in which one impacts the world. Thanks. :) It’s a bit late in the day to be replying, but what the heck–it’s an eye-opener. Especially the part where I was getting all defensive and thinking, “I refuse to shoulder guilt as long as I shoulder my personal responsibility!” And then I read the commentary, and duh, that’s exactly what you’re saying. It’s not about personal guilt so much as it’s about personal, and collective, responsibility.
If I may risk an analogy, I would say that in my understanding of it now, the system of racism can be compared to global warming and carbon footprints–there’s a basic carbon footprint that none of us can escape, called breathing, which doesn’t absolve anyone of the responsibility to mitigate the other ways in which one impacts the world.
Thanks. :)

]]> By: three rivers fog » The food you eat, or: You are subsidizing slavery. http://threeriversblog.com/2008/03/sixteen-maneuvers-to-avoid-dealing-with-racism.html#comment-37 three rivers fog » The food you eat, or: You are subsidizing slavery. Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:38:17 +0000 http://threeriversblog.com/2008/03/sixteen-maneuvers-to-avoid-dealing-with-racism/#comment-37 [...] an aside, following from that, most of the racism expressed by these lower-class whites was not “they’re taking our jobs” and such, [...] [...] an aside, following from that, most of the racism expressed by these lower-class whites was not “they’re taking our jobs” and such, [...]

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