Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl...
by dragonwriter on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:50PM
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> Saying "I don't see colour" is suddenly the wrong thing to say. For a long time it was the correct thing to say and think.
It's been widely held up as the standard privileged response that helps secure an unjust status quo through erasure for longer than, really, any of the rest of the phrasing in this sentence was current in how one would express the problem of that statement. As an example (comparatively recent in the history of that expression being widely derided as problematic), when Steven Colbert adopted the faux-right-wing personality for the Colbert Report 15 years ago, “I don’t see race” was one of the standard refrains he used, which wouldn't work if it weren't not only problematic but widely and stereotypically so.
So, no, it didn't just suddenly become the wrong thing to say.
It's been widely held up as the standard privileged response that helps secure an unjust status quo through erasure for longer than, really, any of the rest of the phrasing in this sentence was current in how one would express the problem of that statement. As an example (comparatively recent in the history of that expression being widely derided as problematic), when Steven Colbert adopted the faux-right-wing personality for the Colbert Report 15 years ago, “I don’t see race” was one of the standard refrains he used, which wouldn't work if it weren't not only problematic but widely and stereotypically so.
So, no, it didn't just suddenly become the wrong thing to say.