'Just because someone laughs or appears to shrug off a problematic comment, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t harmful or racist'
The power dynamics of racial hierarchies makes calling out racism a dangerous thing to do for people of colour., your reputation, or lead to you being disbelieved, accused of lying, or branded unnecessarily angry.
‘When confronted with the idea that you’ve offended someone, caused harm, or in this instance, quite casually used a very commonly known racial trope, it’s likely that you will respond defensively, to protect that internal belief about by yourself as a “good person”. ‘In any other context where the word consent might be used, laughing probably isn’t going to hold up as a valid consensual agreement.’
‘For some of us, we laugh when we are under pressure, when we don’t know what the right thing to say is, when we are pausing to give ourselves time to even think “what the actual f***?”, when we are coming to terms with the fact that yes, once again, here I am, experiencing a microaggression.’
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