TheReligion
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Im not sure who you are arguing against here or who has said they don’t understand the history and root of discrimination.It's obviously not OK to say this (any part of what she is supposed to have said), but it's also insane to say there is no difference in a white-majority place between a white person saying 'you black bastard' and a non-white person saying 'you white bastard'. With 'black bastard', there is a long history of white people acting from a position of dominance and perceived superiority, and then pushing down against racialized populations. With 'white bastard', that same history works the other way round, and it's more commonly a reaction to perceived oppression.
Neither is always actually like that and neither comment would be OK (well, responding to opporession is not wrong when it's really that) - but again, assuming it's the exact same sentiment at work is simply wrong.
I think rightly people are taking issue with certain posters suggesting that because they don’t find something offensive everyone else should be of the same opinion and if they aren’t it’s because they don’t understand or are insensitive.
The whole thing could have been avoided if Kerr didn’t use someone’s ethnicity as a precursor to insulting them. That’s the crux of it really and certainly something I would struggle to defend her over in such circumstances.