Minorities can be Racist too (and why indie creator status doesn't excuse you from consequences)
Internalized racism is when a minority takes up racist ideology of their own race. There is also internalized bigotry which includes internalized racism and many other categories.
If there can be internalized bigotry, then why can't another minority not of the offended race be racist? What does economic status have to do with facing consequences of being a racist? Nothing. These are only amplifiers to what is recieved, however it does not erase accountability.
Saying that Gooseworx shouldn't be a target of accountability because there's more privileged targets shows why these people do need to be held accountable. Racism by anyone regardless of privilege should be comdened and if its not it will be normalized. Gooseworx has never made an apology so far and appears to never will make one as she is taking too long for the incident of this severity. If we let her go free without consequences, then whats to say that other white minorities won't jump on the banwagon and openly be racists too? After all, there will be a group of people who will scrap the barrel for any discriminator to protect them.
Did you know that many acts of racial violence wasn't by politicians but by everyday people? Lynchings were frequently held by townspeople. Not all politicians or those in power, but everday people. Did you know that most racial riots were by the people. Tulsa was incited by white business men sure, but poor white people benefited from Black towns as they were cheaper. No, instead they chose to grab at their white privilege and burn our towns. Did you know that when the once conservative Democratic Party eventually fell to Black demand, all those people just jumped to the now conservative Republican party? But we got the politicians! Why did our problems not go away? Why is there still a party with the same racist rhetoric as we endured before? Surely only getting the politicians worked? Right?
People are a part of the equation. You can't just only get the politicians because the people will just move. That's if you even have enough people. Did you know that the NAACP was founded by white people. Some Black people held positions but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was primarily made through white hands.
In white dominated countries, we needed white participation to fight for rights. This means educating and holding racists accountable. If we only fight politicians, we will never win. If we only fight the people, we will never win. Movements for equality is multi-frontier and multi-class and recognising that alone is the most important part for one to succeed.
So no, Gooseworx being a trans woman and an indie creator shouldn't excuse her from accountability at all. The idea that you should focus on political opponents instead of small creators also cuts out every person fighting politicians right now. Its a statement that can only exist if no Black person was fighting for justice and that is a lie. Currently in the US VRA of 1965 was weakened and Black lawyers are being shoved out of white courts trying to fight racial gerrymandering. There are movements everywhere in the South especially. Work is already being done against politicians and one small content creator shouldn't somehow all the sudden stop that work from existing. All civil rights movements needed to change the majority group to be able to tackle the higher power.
I will be able to easily tell if you haven't read this entire post and commented early out of spite because your snap or question likely would be answered. So please read this post before you say anything. To comment on this situation, you need to be educated. It is that serious. Also, no proper actual fully appropiate and well made apology has been made by any perpetrator. These apologise need to: address specifically the Black community by name, explain why jumping around the n slur is bad as well as other incidents of racism carefully and separately, discourage viewers to white knight, and state any way of rectifying their actions. It is not that hard. If you didn't want to put in the work, don't do it in the first place.
The deadliest thing to the fight for justice, is when a white minority gets away with racism. This creates more classes, where white minorities will grab onto their Whiteness at all cost despite being damaged and disarmed by white societies. As I've said before, this is what channels riots and lynchings the most. This also hurts the white racist minority more than it would if they helped racial minorities. Do not support the further destruction these people inflict on theirselves when they can fight for something better for their lives.
Racism is made for white privileged rich men. Not the poor. Not the margnalized. Rich benefit. Most white people do not actually benefit from racism in the long run. If racial minorities somehow were eliminated, non-rich white people become the next class to pick apart until white rich men remain if not with one more class for labor. Either they can dig themself a bigger hole or join the hill for a future where people like them won't be hurt anymore. Unfortunately, what do most of them pick?
