this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2023
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I find it always stimulating to exchange views in between actors of good faith. I am not trying to change your opinion here, rather sharing my own, and feelings and experience.
My opinion here is not that "it can escalate to something worse", but rather that it is parf of something already bad, very present and casually ingrained in many people's head, that needs careful attention to not casually reproduce...
somehow it is already "worse". ie. everybody born in a racist society, who is not born as an object of this racism is bound to be at least partly racist themselves, and/or part of that problem by being complacent and/or pretending that there is no problem at all... it should not be shameful to acknowledge that, as long as people are in good faith and open to introspection.
Also it takes anyone a while to see such things when they are very much used to it.. To look back and say "oops, yeah maybe that was a mistake" in retrospect is part of it.. I am not saying you should, it's just how it happened to me.