• WideningGyro [any]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Coming from the person who defended generational racism because one bad thing happened once.

    I have a close friend who was kidnapped and kept as a fucking slave by a gang once. That gang’s ethnic makeup? Romani. It’s a horrible story and I hate the people who subjected my friend to that shit and gave him PTSD with a burning passion and hope they die in a ditch. And yet, when talking about the extreme racism Romani people face, I don’t decide to defend it because a handful of horrible people did something horrible to my friend. It’s not that fucking hard to separate general systems of oppression from individuals and their actions. You even acknowledged how extremely limited your knowledge of Romani people is, and yet still chose to defend racism.