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'acting black' yes that would be racist, because that's speaking of the individual.

'privilege' speaks not to one's own decisions, but one's own environment.

I'm disappointed. I thought abuse of the term 'racism' required greater sleight of hand. I'm only just starting to understand it



>'acting black' yes that would be racist, because that's speaking of the individual.

This criteria is nonsense. If you have an asian guy committing a crime and you say he's acting black because he didn't get enough white privilege, both of those components are racist. His crime and his relative privilege level have nothing to do with his skin color.




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