Ide Cyan ([identity profile] ide-cyan.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] badgerbag,
[livejournal.com profile] lavendertook: why is it OK for white people to dismiss the pointing out of racism by the people who have greater expertise in experiencing it?

[livejournal.com profile] akirlu: So, is it possible for a PoC to be mistaken in any assessment of racism?

[livejournal.com profile] badgerbag: *SARCASM* No of course it's not possible for a person of color to be racist or wrong about ANYTHING!

[livejournal.com profile] akirlu: [strawpeople say X,] so it's not like a crazy position to infer.

All it does it make you look like a jerk for saying you're not crazy for using the possibility of POC being mistaken in an assessment of racism as a way of dissing POC's expertise on racism, which is the outrageous statement that made [livejournal.com profile] badgerbag's eyes roll back in her head.

Dismiss POC. Then reframe your argument as a position people would have to call you crazy for holding if they disagreed with you. I can only tell what your premises look like from here, and it's that you want to look like a jerk, in all seriousness.



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