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What happened then? Maybe in response, he said "no, I didn't internalize any racism, and here's a list of reasons why that logically isn't racist at all", and they said "Oh, never mind then".

Or maybe not. If accusing people of internalizing systemic racism didn't work, nobody would do it. We have a system where accusing a person of racism is an instant win and cannot be argued with, and as long as it is an instant win, it's going to be used, even against actual black people.




> What happened then? Maybe in response, he said "no, I didn't internalize any racism, and here's a list of reasons why that logically isn't racist at all", and they said "Oh, never mind then".

Shouldn't the black engineer's white colleagues "do their own work" instead of forcing him to do it for them?


> What happened then?

He stopped responding to the thread. Moved the ticket to "Backlog" and didn't assign anyone to it.


This is when he should tell them to stop whitesplaining




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