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i agree with you, personally i'm a bit overly cautious myself in wording i use, which is probably why i seek to link to other people saying it who are affected by this stuff and not just my own word.
as i mentioned to hugo, i just sort of reject this flattening of critical theory which has not only hurt racial minorities and ethnicities, but also queer people like myself when we resort to binary articulations. im also painfully aware how limiting the pursuit of optics or tone correcting can be when an marginalised group is trying to find words for what is happening to it. if we're going to talk about these things, educate ourselves on them, often the outcomes of atrocities our own history has caused, i feel we have a duty to give them the care they deserve and sometimes make unpopular observations.
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Thanks for the reply. I do get the difference between societal structure and individual interactions, I'm just not sure why my view on this falls within that framework. Completely understand there are a plurality of views on this, but I guess that's my point - given that is the case, I don't understand why we don't take the more cautious approach (like I'm sure most of us would in almost any other case where something could be viewed as racist)