Reverse Racism
Please stop with this one. It’s not real. In the US, racism can only be enacted by white people. If an idea like Affirmative Action feels like “reverse racism,” but you don’t support any other means of making our systems equitable for everybody, then you want to maintain the status quo. You want to keep marginalized groups excluded and white people with all the advantages. This is white supremacy.
Equity, to white people, will feel like discrimination or being left out. This is why we tend to stress equality over equity, because with equality, we are still being centered and advantaged. Equity means acknowledging that we have already gotten our needs met and had all the advantages, and that other people will be getting their turn now.
There are still plenty of jobs, school acceptances, and elected positions that white people are getting, so the idea that we are being discriminated against, is false. It’s only our feelings making us think this. And as we have already established, prejudice and racism are not the same thing. And prejudice will never, and can never be racism in reverse.
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