[P] See, the way I see it? This removal of culture, identity, and personality from black people just makes them alien. It's a very insidious kind of racism that doesn't allow them to be a person. It makes them... I don't know how to articulate this well, so you'll have to excuse me. Hm. A symbol? In a way? An idea? An icon? What's the correct word for this... An edifice? Hm. A caricature? A myth? A utility? A simplification? A known variable?
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[P] A black person then has to behave like that to be accepted as black, since that's what everyone's taught black is. Ah, a narrative! Yes. It's a narrative. That a black person is a strange, flat alien, bereft of the kinds of personality that other races enjoy. A similar narrative is experienced by the neurodiverse, vis-a-vis empathy. It makes it easy to dehumanise us, all of us funny little aliens. Which is really insidious.
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[P] This is what happens when a person isn't allowed to be a damn person, and often personhood is denied to black and neurodiverse people alike, and the intersection between the two? Haaa. Oh gosh. Well, see, those are the most funny little inhuman aliens of all. And that sort of thing results in the friggin' Judge Rotenberg Center, doesn't it? Look that up, if you dare. Dehumanisation is gross, but it's also commonplace and of the status quo.
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[P] A black person might have trouble on the home ownership ladder as a white person would see them as a funny little alien, and less of a real person, because in the fictions that white person consumes? That's all a black person is. Just as it's all a neurodiverse person is. Just funny little aliens, not people as the "rest of us" are. The word insidious just screams in my mind. There's not less bigotry now, it's just more insidious.
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