Someone wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets 2013-05-08 02:27 am (UTC)

Re: Non-Fandom Secrets

Not only has SJWs desensitized me to sj issues so has reading all the angry rants by POC against white women and men. They do have their points and I'm not denying that they're true in their experience and, hell, I even agree w/them, but I'm now constantly wondering what POC think of me now even if it's just a simple hello, how are you doing exchange, esp. since I said that to a AA woman and she stared at me and walked away w/o a word at a conference I was attending. I have no idea what happened there other than she didn't like me b/c of my skin color.

I'm now much more uncomfortable around POC than ever before in my life when it totally didn't bother me sitting at a table being the only white woman w/everyone else being POC, primarily AA, in the 80s w/a large white student population (and I mean POC were primarily AA and vastly outnumbered) in a smallish southern town and my friends asked me why. Why? B/c I liked them and I thought they liked me. Now, I just wonder.

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