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Miigwech

(3,741 posts) Sun Aug 4, 2019, 12:27 PM Aug 2019

Are we back there again?

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Are we back there again? (Original Post) Miigwech Aug 2019 OP

Some attitudes changed, but many did not ihaveaquestion Aug 2019 #1

ihaveaquestion

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1. Some attitudes changed, but many did not

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Sun Aug 4, 2019, 01:26 PM

Aug 2019

They just kept it to themselves most of the time.

As a white woman I've had racist comments or jokes made to me 'on the sly', by other whites as long as far back as the 1960's. I don't think I did anything to encourage these 'confidences' but who knows how my unconscious bias may have come accross to them. Anyway, I can tell you that telling these people the comments aren't welcome stops them making them, but only for the moment and only to me. I'm sure it doesn't change their minds.

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