India Willoughby on race

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Funny how JK Rowling gets acres of abuse while IW is spectacularly racist on Twitter and seems to get away with it scot-free.

Twitter is both racist and misogynistic as bloody usual

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Whoa, that's an appalling thing to say

wtf?

I had to re-read it myself - couldn’t believe anyone could be so colossally entitled, obtuse and offensive.

I don't think it's racist. It's probably a bit of fact. Not that I have any issue with a black person getting an opportunity over a white person, I think it's actually a good thing to be honest but we can't pretend that people (white especially) aren't tip toeing around, scared to offend and many businesses will seize the opportunity to look better by using black people. I don't think this is what BLM wanted to achieve though, they didn't want superiority, they wanted equality. I'm white and it doesn't bother me if there does become an element of superiority. Maybe it will help? Maybe it will massively reduce racism which is the aim.

At the end of the day, even if white people do become less privileged and have less chances, they will still never be enslaved on a mass scale, followed around shops for no reason and called all sorts of derogatory names so it would never be the same as what has happened to black people

If course it's racist.

In what way is it better to be black than white in the UK or the USA at the moment???

I don't think that is how structural racism actually works.
There aren't any stats in the USA to support this claim currently.

So because of a week or so of protests people think racism against black people is now over?

Are we surprised a person who does not subscribe to truth, tweets something that is untrue?

Just like sexism, when you're used to privilege, equality or in this case a very slight move towards a small change feels like oppression.

It's racist and there is zero evidence to suggest that black candidates are favoured over white ones. Quite the reverse.

Horrifically racist and spectacularly tone deaf.

I saw a quote somewhere, it made a lot of sense to me. It was along the lines of:

Black people getting equality won't mean white people will become oppressed. It will be like instead of a white person walking into a shop and buying something for £10 and handing over a £10 note, they'll have to go into their pocket and dig out a £5 note and some change then count it to get their item. They will still get their item with no issues, they will just have to put more effort in. A black person currently buys the same item counting out change to get it then might even come up short and be denied the item.

The logic makes sense to me. White people need to give black people some of their £5 notes and pound coins in exchange for their change so we are all equal. No one ends up counting out all the change in the shop and being denied anything

...WTF?

Unless India is referring to the opportunity to be murdered by the police if one lives in America then I am unclear what opportunities India is referring to. Luckily for India most people know perfectly well that humans can't say sex so nobody will be calling India a Karen.

Can't change sex, rather, though we can't say sex honestly either unless we want to be censored.

Bloody hell, that is appalling racist!

Complete nonsense. But then it is coming from a male person who believes that by having some operations they are now a woman. And the vast majority of people they meet pretend they believe that too.

I suggest IW watches this, although if seeing a black man killed by a policeman on TV doesn't get through, then probably nothing will.

Deluded person is deluded

Sexist person is also racist

Is India being called out for that piece of racist bollocks? If ever someone fully deserved a Twitter pile-on this is it.

Someone far more eloquent than me explained that once a person is capable of othering a group of people they can apply that easily to other groups so sexists are more likely to also be racist/homophobic/etc

@TheProdigalKittensReturn

Is India being called out for that piece of racist bollocks? If ever someone fully deserved a Twitter pile-on this is it.

A handful of replies, that’s all.

And somehow, yet again, they make it all about them.

If I was being kind, I wonder if India could mean in terms of the moral high ground (Good time to be black vs white, when white privileged is laid bare and white people need to take a long hard look at themselves?)....

But that’s a bit of a stretch 🤷🏻‍♀️