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I get what they're trying to say and all but if you're going to make a mountain out of a molehill, isn't this whole thing itself inherently racist?
"Oh you're generalising white people. Well white people did not die from generalisations, black people and Asian people have... "
(BBC reporter references tweet saying "Generalisations about white people are just as disgusting as anything")
"I'm not going to apologise for something that we as a people, in terms being from the black and brown community, I'm not going to apologise for that, I'm not sorry for it."
Sounds like it was badly cut because if you read it it doesn't really make much sense, but even still the evidence of the ignorant hypocrisy is right there. Amazes me that the proponents of this 'white proverbs' rubbish are blind to that.
BBC said:5 hours agoHave you ever said something to someone of another culture or ethnicity and later wondered if it was patronising or slightly racist?
Thousands of people have been inspired to tweet their experiences of "ignorant" things white people have said to them, using the hashtag #WhiteProverbs.
Anne-Marie Tomchak of #BBCtrending meets the person behind the trend and asks if it verges on racism or is harmless fun at white people's expense?
I get what they're trying to say and all but if you're going to make a mountain out of a molehill, isn't this whole thing itself inherently racist?
"Oh you're generalising white people. Well white people did not die from generalisations, black people and Asian people have... "
(BBC reporter references tweet saying "Generalisations about white people are just as disgusting as anything")
"I'm not going to apologise for something that we as a people, in terms being from the black and brown community, I'm not going to apologise for that, I'm not sorry for it."
Sounds like it was badly cut because if you read it it doesn't really make much sense, but even still the evidence of the ignorant hypocrisy is right there. Amazes me that the proponents of this 'white proverbs' rubbish are blind to that.
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