"because black Americans were once enslaved and horrifically abused as a class of humans, the abuse by a black person of anyone from the historical abuser class (whites) is nothing to get worked up about because it simply doesn't register on the scale of harm"
Yep, I had a few conversations in the comments of my article with people arguin…
"because black Americans were once enslaved and horrifically abused as a class of humans, the abuse by a black person of anyone from the historical abuser class (whites) is nothing to get worked up about because it simply doesn't register on the scale of harm"
Yep, I had a few conversations in the comments of my article with people arguing pretty much exactly this. In addition, there's this infuriating normalisation of the idea that a minor incident like this really is "traumatic" because...slavery apparently.
A heady cocktail of retribution and weakness. It drives me absolutely crazy.
"because black Americans were once enslaved and horrifically abused as a class of humans, the abuse by a black person of anyone from the historical abuser class (whites) is nothing to get worked up about because it simply doesn't register on the scale of harm"
Yep, I had a few conversations in the comments of my article with people arguing pretty much exactly this. In addition, there's this infuriating normalisation of the idea that a minor incident like this really is "traumatic" because...slavery apparently.
A heady cocktail of retribution and weakness. It drives me absolutely crazy.