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Anonymous asked: Do you think that you can be racist towards white people?

you can be prejudiced towards white people. but racism = prejudice + power, so people who are systematically disempowered by institutional racism cannot be racist towards the oppressing class. besides which, often that prejudice is a healthy response to the racist or ignorant or erasive treatment they’ve come to expect from white people, who either actively or passively participate in their oppression