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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-05-28 06:54 pm

[ SECRET POST #2338 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2338 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Saturday Night Live]


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[Homestuck]


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[The Dark Knight trilogy]


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[Star Trek]


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[Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert]


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[Neil Gaiman/Amanda Palmer]


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[Late Night Talk Shows]


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[Fruits Basket]


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[Defiance]


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[Phoenix Legend]


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[Kim Possible]


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[Rupert Graves]


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[Hashirama, from Naruto]


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[XXXholic]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 047 secrets from Secret Submission Post #334.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2013-05-29 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
My childhood was filled with all sorts of "DON'T BE A DIRTY LITTLE RACIST" talks, a lot of which went over what kinds of thoughts are racist and whatnot.

To the point where I'm actually fairly certain that those talks are the precise reason I have random racist thoughts in the first place. Like, I'll see a black person, and my brain will go: "THAT'S A BLACK PERSON" > "OMFG THAT'S RACIST" > "SHIT, STOP BEING RACIST, THEY'RE JUST ANOTHER PERSON." > "FUCK, WHAT IF I'M ACTING RACIST AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW IT" > "PLEASE DON'T THINK I'M RACIST OMGGGGGG"

It's all very confusing .____. Granted, that whole reaction happens in like, less than a second, but it's there and it's annoying, and if they're a customer I'm interacting with, I'm like HYPER AWARE of how I'm acting because I don't want to do something that might seem racist, and then I feel racist anyway because OMG I'M TREATING THEM DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR except I'm trying really hard to treat them the same as I do everybody else, it's just that I'm putting a lot more thought into it which makes me feel racist because I took notice of their skin color in the first place aaaaaauuuuuuugh ;_____;

The stupid thing is is that this seems to only happen with black people because all the anti-racism stuff was focused on racism against black people, except where I grew up, there were a lot of illegal Mexican immigrants, so there was a lot of anti-Mexican racism going on at the same damn time (often from the same damn people!) my childhood was so confusing, okay

(Anonymous) 2013-05-29 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
I do EXACTLY THE SAME THING.

I dunno if there's any way to stop doing that. I really would like to. It's super awkward, even if I don't do anything about it.

(Anonymous) 2013-05-29 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations, you have White Guilt. It sucks.

(If you happen to also not be white, that's... painfully ironic.)
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[personal profile] insanenoodlyguy 2013-05-29 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
I have always considered myself fortunate (maybe even privileged, hur hur hur) that growing I was in an incredibly diverse neighborhood (6 different races, interracial marriages, 3 religions that I know of and one of my neighbors was deaf and used sign language). We all got exposed in that neighborhood to radically different people so early I'm sure most of us didn't realize most of the the larger complications of being different till later then others (didn't really click for me till middle school, till then racism was just a bad thing I thought happened in the past)