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   hashitan (hashitan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 05:45:53 JST hashitan

   I felt weird when Q&A after a presentation turned into an interrogation of "what does race even mean?" which I saw as an attempt to not to talk about racism because this particular person is uncomfortable. "Race is a socially constructed concept," she said.

   Yeah, so what? As if she was saying that we don't have to talk about it because it doesn't exist as a tangible thing. Really? It IS a social construction so deeply rooted in our society that people behave differently toward a person?

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     hashitan (hashitan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:03:32 JST hashitan

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     • Karl Thiel

     @ECSETT @kthiel Exactly guys. She may not have meant it, but sure sounded like “there is no such thing as race, so racism either.”

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     Karl Thiel (kthiel@mstdn.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:03:35 JST Karl Thiel

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     @ECSETT @hashitan A cousin of, "I don't see race." and all are variants of, "I'm not racist, but..."

     Sorry you had to go through that, Hashitan-san.

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     TT (ecsett@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 11:03:36 JST TT

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     @hashitan textbook (not-so-)micro aggression… お疲れ様です。