Cee R.
1 min readFeb 14, 2022

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Unfortunately, a lot of my fellow White people who say things like this actually mean 'I want to pretend that there's no problem so it must be Black people 'pulling the race card'' - which is obviously BS. But it means that this criticism coming from someone White is too often a statement made in bad faith in order to ignore discrimination and racism.

What I've found online is that a few Black individuals use their own marginalisation - their Black identity - to avoid responsibility for doing harm to other people - especially Trans people and Jewish people, in my experience, though I'm aware I'm talking about a handful of personally-witnessed instances. Still, I've been called racist for politely pointing out a phrase that many Queer people find hurtful in a piece written by a Black author (it wasn't said author who called me racist - it was a random commenter who seemed to have some Black supremacy stuff on their profile.) Of course, it's not just Black people who do this - it's everyone. That's the point. Having a marginalised identity does not make you immune to prejudice against other groups.

*sighs* It just makes me tired - the so-called 'oppression olympics' is not an event that anyone can win. They don't give out medals - just bruises. The only way to beat it is to refuse to play.

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Cee R.
Cee R.

Written by Cee R.

Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr

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