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"it was likely an emotional response to the ubiquitous "Dear white people" articles telling me that I must acknowledge the evil of whiteness with an implicit me being evil because of my membership in the white tribe."

Absolutely. Following my own advice to understand where people are coming from, I completely see how the ubiquity of these articles blaming white people for the actions of other white people from hundreds of years ago will end up causing defensiveness. That's why I told spike not to buy into that nonsense.

*I* get frustrated reading about how all white people are forever complicit in the evils of slavery and Jim Crow. So I can only imagine how annoying it must for you.

But yeah, I don't feel as if the defensiveness is aimed at me exactly. It's just the degree and frequency of it, especially as I'm clearly *not* blaming white people of today for the sins of everybody who ever looked like them, that gets a bit grating after a while😅

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