#white entitlement
White people’s comfort is not the purpose of racism discussions.
if you are white, please refrain from venting to your friends of color about racist white people you encounter. we already deal with enough racist white people in real life, so hearing about even more racist white people after we’ve managed to get away from them is really tiring.
#it’s true we fucking hate when you do this #like i get sometimes we all need to vent but save it for the bigger things #i dont wanna hear about every bigoted comment your pal tim makes #venting to me is not a substitute for calling him out#especially when we both know you’re still gonna stay friends with him anyway
honestly its a microaggression
we’re really not here to absorb your stories about your racist family and friends you’re never going to try to correct…while we already have to live with direct racism like every day
One thing the progressive White people I know do that annoys the fuck out of me is when they post stuff about “white people are so dumb amirite”, sometimes pointing to a specific Terrible White Person (e.g. Pauline Hanson).
What makes this annoying isn’t so much the calling out, it’s the subtext of “look what a Good White Person I am because I am NOT like this Racist Bad White Person”. Like, they never really interrogate _themselves_ about how they are complicit in racism, they just like making fun of other white people and feel like that absolves them of responsibility.
Also I’m getting tired of my (often but not solely White) friends tagging me in some Racist of the Month shit and expecting me to comment on them. Sometimes they say “oh but I know you have something great to say!!! I value your opinion!!!” Urgh, if I wanted to say something I will, but I don’t want to feel obligated to say what is essentially the same thing over and over again. Not everything needs my social commentary. Sometimes I just want to talk about kittens.
