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"Aren't you against racism?" "Don't you know that racism exists?"
Of course I know that racism exists. What do you think happens when you're the only Indian kid in an 80s or 90s classroom? How about one who fights the bully to have him be recognized veritably as an East Indian rather than the Indigenous Indian they first assumed him to be. For family honour. For love of father and respect for justice.
Or how about having a wife from another continent, learning English as a second language, and accompaniying her through middle class North American atmospheres where all the local-born women try to treat her as mentally deficient and naive. Rolling their eyes at her accent, dropping obscure and menacing expressions, and chuckling disparagingly at her awkward choice of directly translated terms? (f those b)
You know who those people are.
They're the first ones to jump on the woke bandwagon and implement its most easily grasped concepts to their sociocultural advantage. This is what they've been doing their entire lives - but now you wave a flashy wand in front of them and inform them: If you wield this and manipulate others, you'll be heralded as a saviour of the unfortunate and a champion of rectitude.
I will not participate in your vacuous, self congratulatory glorification of victimhood. The battles we're fighting don't need us to be weak - quite the contrary.