thecurvature:

It’s not the structural denial of resources or the inability to get a job to support your family or the huge chemical plant in your backyard or segregated housing or living with the threat of physical and/or sexual violence because you’re not white (enough) or having your land stolen.

It’s “people made fun of me in a movie!!!!”

How did we miss the entire part where the REASON that racial stereotypes are bad and dangerous is not because they’re MEAN but because they’re USED TO JUSTIFY THE CONSTANT PHYSICAL REALITIES OF RACISM? That portraying Black people as stupid or silly or criminal is not bad because it’s NOT NICE or because it’s STEREOTYPICAL but because those ubiquitous portrayals are USED TO JUSTIFY SLAVERY, JIM CROW, AND THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX?

Don’t answer that. The answer I seek is whiteness.