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Helga Vierich's avatar

YES...thank you for saying this so clearly.

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Rukhsana Sukhan's avatar

“When something is filthy, you either clean it up or throw it out. You clean it up if it is something of value to you, and it is not irreparable.”

Yes. An apt metaphor. Why do we keep eating this vomit?

I think of men like Idi Amin, whose Asian victims Canada received when he expelled them. Americans see one brand of racial essentialism and the world is filled with them, many brands, as we both know.

Race is a terrible terrible idea.

I am mixed race, a liminal creature racially speaking, and I’m glad because I’m excluded from this cultish identitarianism seemingly predicated on some perceived essentialism linked to melanin levels.

Has this devolved into a cult? A social contagion? Sometimes I wonder.

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