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 @3967703f Isn't it? They'll roll over like obedient dogs when faced with a lifetime of usury, or child marriage, or cultural appropriation, or historical erasure, but those are cultural allowances.

Wearing a mask is a bridge too far.

An odd bunch, but when you throw away your ancestors to be a generic bag of cereal on the bottom shelf and belong in "whiteness" as a construct, well, there's bound to be dissonance loud enough to be heard and understood. If only by everyone else in earshot.