The funniest bit is of course that there is a recording, not of the n-word bomb, but a different incident showing the mindset which makes someone completely unable to recognize the hurt pushed around, even while swearing up and down that they're not racists.
It is pretty awful, that the word "racist" is something people seem to think of as "actual racism begins from lynching and Jim Crow and dropping racial ephitets in a neverending stream while kicking the living shit out of people of color", whereas it is perfectly possible to do racist shit in everyday life, through small things said or done.
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Date: 2013-06-28 05:15 am (UTC)Her apology of "I is what I is and I'm not changing.", complete with histrionic "If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back ... please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me.", is what really galls me. So she's not even going to bother to try and fix the problem with her vocabulary, if she keeps saying daft shit?
It is pretty awful, that the word "racist" is something people seem to think of as "actual racism begins from lynching and Jim Crow and dropping racial ephitets in a neverending stream while kicking the living shit out of people of color", whereas it is perfectly possible to do racist shit in everyday life, through small things said or done.