I will look out for them for sure (I wouldn't expect you to do that for me at 2am, but the thought that you would is always appreciated). To be honest, I'm surprised I haven't caught them sooner.
So, I've tried to find some stuff on this, simply because last time I checked, racism is when you assume something about someone based on their looks/culture for the sake of those things, not for who they are and their actual experiences. It's for THIS reason that white people believe that ANYONE can be racist.
HOWEVER. Upon a little internet browsing (and it's only a little, as it's Easter Sunday and there's work to be done/family to tolerate/etc, so no one kill me if this isn't enough >.>), I've found ANOTHER definition, which is, in my opinion, necessary to make the argument that PoC hating on white people isn't racist.
Common Racist Attitudes and Behaviors That Indicate A Detour or Wrong Turn into White Guilt, Denial, or Defensiveness, published by St Cloud State University gave me me this (also, note, I looked SPECIFICALLY for this issue. I haven't read the whole article yet, though I have done a quick skim. I will read it more in depth later today.):
There are four points to the "Reverse Racism" section, but the first point concentrates on how PoCs are racist as well. They counter that notion like this:
Let’s first define racism with this formula: Racism =racial prejudice + systemic, institutional power. To say people of color can be racist, denies the power imbalance inherent in racism. Certainly, people of color can be and are prejudiced against white people. That was a part of their societal conditioning. A person of color can act on prejudices to insult or hurt a white person. But there is a difference between being hurt and being oppressed. People of color, as a social group, do not have the societal, institutional power to oppress white people as a group. An individual person of color abusing a white person – while clearly wrong, (no person should be insulted, hurt, etc.) is acting out a personal racial prejudice, not racism.
I have a lot more to learn, but thus far this is what I've found. Also, I'm not posting all this in a reblog for two reasons:
To see if anyone has anything to add
Why point number two? Because I'm pretty sure most people don't know about this way of looking at racism -- where have they EVER taught us this? I'll be honest, I've never heard of racism being defined as something that has to be institutional. It's not treated as such in everyday life. Yes, academia may have studied it... since when does the common layman know about this? We say it's racist because we're not aware of this other definition -- or so this is leading me to believe. Y'all can tell me if I'm wrong on this.
Anyways, these are my thoughts up to date. Everyone who has never heard of this in their life should definitely browse that article -- it's very interesting and explains this point of view. My only other comment is that, racist or not, I think it's still fair for me to get pissed off when someone just assumes something off the color of my skin, because it's still an unfair prejudice -- I had a whole rant about that point that I just deleted (because I don't think anyone cares...), but if anyone feels like harassing me about it, go for it.
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