Injustice Systems

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This is a good, succinct summary to pass on to friends and family who might be open to it:

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This graphic looks like a joke. What makes it terrifying is that it is real.

Edited to correct ā€œThis.ā€

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If you follow all the prescriptions of checking your privilege, unpacking your invisible knapsack, centering the marginalized, excavating your deeply held white supremacist notions and not becoming a Karen, you will absolutely positively have to break up with actual white people.

You will love many of those white people. You will be related to some of them. You will be married to them. You will, one day, be faced with pulling ā€œwhitenessā€ down out of the clouds and seeing it not in ideas but in people, written on bodies you have touched, scattered across relationships that have sustained you. You will see it in your family photographs and in the age spots of hands that reach for you. You will, one day, look across a table at the kindest sociopaths you have ever loved.

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Yep, Iā€™ve cut off relations with two ex-friends and brother and SIL. Sister is conservative and we do short emails maybe 2x a year but thatā€™s it. BIL never had email and wouldnā€™t care anyway.

Brother & SIL called last year. We didnā€™t take the call because my SIL is a narcissistic conservative asshole who has just pissed us off way too much. My brother has never tried to tone down her behavior or apologize for her. Supposedly the call was to wish wife Happy Birthday. Actually I think it was to let us know her daughter, our niece (whom we like, although I wonder about her politics) was pregnant. Niece texted after the baby was born.

My SIL is a racist, Iā€™ve heard it from her mouth. My brother once said ā€œthereā€™s no racism in the US anymore.ā€ The others are just very conservative, and may not think theyā€™re racist, and may treat everyone in person just fine. Itā€™s the way they vote.

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So many potential threads for this:

(Remove the Overlay add-on in Firefox works perfectly, if you need it)

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Does that mean that if someone is actually convicted of shoplifting a candy bar, the police can take their house?

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Talk about workplace trauma: injustice systems from the past can still traumatize and kill those who study them.

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I am going to hazard a guess that itā€™s more common among scholars of more recent history, than say medievalists or more ancient civilizations. Not because the farther past was kinder or the people less human, but because the primary documents are fewer and more likely to be sanitized official reports than graphical eyewitness accounts. Also, what facets of history you study.

But this is not a new phenomenon. Weā€™ve known for ages now that investigating or studying traumatic events is its own trauma. The fact that weā€™ve accepted that for other industries but not academia is a massive issue, however.

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Bill has only been introduced so far, not passed. But, that something like this is even contemplatedā€¦

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Why do they need to involved their god in everything? I thought he was already involved on his ownā€¦?

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If it passes, it will get a challenge for sure.

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And as part of a broader issue hitting even more facets of society

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There are some good points here. I donā€™t know the issue well enough to know if itā€™s being presented accurately, but it seems objective in how it shows thereā€™s no easy answer, and the better answer might actually not be the ā€˜progressiveā€™ one, because of the simplicity factor. Remembering back to another stage in my life, I can see why this could make more sense:

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