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   Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 03-Sep-2026 08:19:48 JST Rabbit Cohen

   • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

   @evan Yes and no. It's often useful to say "Hey, what you just said was racist" instead of making the conversation about whether the PERSON is racist. That said, people say racist things because of racist biases, and while it's certainly possible to be anti-racist, I'm not sure if it's really possible to not be racist at all in a racist society. But you can be racist and make non-racist statements, which I guess makes the fact that there's a difference trivial, if you want to be pedantic.

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     @BathysphereHat I'm sorry you have a migraine but it was very coherent! Your mind superpowers are sharpened by the pain.

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @evan (And no, I don't just mean "all white people", because internalised racism is also very much a thing, although it's obviously different.)

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @evan (I hope this is coherent. I have a migraine.)

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @evan There are also people who are proudly racist, as well as many people who are so resistant to examining their own racism that they can't be anti-racist (at least, not until they change that about themselves).

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     • Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

     @evan So it really comes down to what you mean by "a racist person". If you mean "a person with racist ideas and biases", that's everyone.