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Originally Posted by Swan
Exactly, so why do so many kick up a fuss when others see a different side to the story? Not just this one either.
If they don't agree they just dismiss you as some sort of phobe or racist. It's a terrible mentality. Listen to others, accept difference in an opinion. But it's people like those mentioned who just can't accept anything different than what they believe. As soon as you go against their opinion you are insulted and accused of being racist. It's such bollocks. Most people in this multi cultured country aren't racist at all. They just get on with it.
But it does beg the question, why does this crap, and it is crap, get so much attention when young black kids are stabbed to death daily in London?!
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As far as that goes (ignoring that last sentence, because stabbings down-south aren’t really associated with any ethnicity, just like U.S. shootings; there’s often some sort of provocation behind the evenings but sometimes it just happens to whatever unfortunate kid’s hanging around), you might have a point. A lot of blank people are quick to tar white people with a brush that makes them sound a lot more overall racist than they are, true, and little room for disagreement’s granted when someone just wants to play the race-card and paint all white people as raggedy, pale trash but six times out of ten there’s underlying trauma at work there so when it comes to things like this I just try and hear people out seriously and let them tell their story instead of invalidating or gaslighting them further. People who bang on about the supposed micro-aggressions around them when the white people are literally just trying to get on with it do kind of get on my nerves (not that I can’t understand how they feel) but on this thread whenever there’s been a one-sided response it’s been more in favour of the old lady and how it’s ‘not okay,’ even to the point of being ageist, to paint her as racist. But given what we’ve seen and heard from NGOZI (who said several times that she did more-than account for the generation the older woman was from) I’d say there’s less room for questioning whether or not she was victim to racism than to support and believe in her. She’s not exactly wanting in third-party verification either.