• wheez@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    I’m not saying it’s bad.

    Maybe in my mind, I just think it’s a bit weird to glorify it in a way. If someone would come to me and proudly say “I’m only 20% racist now!”, I don’t think my initial reaction would be “Great, keep going!”. It would probably be more like “Why are you any % racist in the first place?”.

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      1 day ago

      All of us are subconsiously a tiny percent racist due to growing up in racist power structures. You’re not a true ally if you think you’re perfect and zero % racist

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        1 day ago

        Maybe it was a bad example, excuse me.

        What I mean is, some things in society are absolutely not accepted, and we wouldn’t congratulate people on just doing less of these things. For me, factory farming of animal products is one of these things. I do realize that some people don’t consider it to be.

        Again, I wouldn’t say I disagree with the original comment, I just have some conflicting thoughts about it I guess. Hope this makes sense.