
That's Not Us, So We're Clean (Seeing White, Part 6)
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How to Distinguish From White Racism
Shannon Sullivan explores strategies that some white folk use to distance ourselves from white racism. One of the strategies is colorblindness, insisting I don't see race. This can overlap with northern superiority towards southerners who are often stereotyped as lower class and poorly educated whether they are or not. She thinks sometimes working class and southern white folks are responding to this kind of condescension when they hurl back the words politically correct.
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