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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 8324101" data-attributes="member: 1210">The thing is, it's possible to be complicit in bigotry without even knowing you're doing so. I posted this story once before- when I was in 7th grade, so like 11 years old, I had one of the Truly Tasteless Jokes books- these were books of jokes that were, well, truly tasteless. There were a bunch of racist jokes and I didn't get a lot of them or really even realize they were racist.But that didn't stop me from taking one of those jokes to school and telling it, trying to puzzle out what made it funny (I didn't get it). What made it "funny", I realized years later, was that it completely dehumanized Black people. A joke I told several times in a (almost entirely white) school, and didn't get the implications of, didn't see how awful it was. Years later I flashed back to that day and realized- Holy Smokes, that was racist AF!I had never thought of myself as racist; I have always consciously believed that your color (or faith or gender or...) doesn't matter much, it's who you are on the inside that matters. But I told that joke, a horrible, dehumanizing, racist joke, not realizing that it was wrong, not perceiving how it made Blacks into some kind of subhuman egg-laying monster, and it took years for me to look at that moment again with adult eyes and see that I'd contributed to racist attitudes. So yeah. My point is, you could fully support interracial marriage and still be complicit in racist thinking or behavior, and there are so many places that it runs through our culture that it takes real effort to avoid it. I'm not making excuses for anyone; I'm pointing out that it's really easy for even people who see themselves as allies to say or do things that are racist. It's what you do afterward and how you move forward that counts.</blockquote>

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