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by lliamander 2013 days ago
> Everyone has, from their own point of view, good motives and intentions.

And you will almost always make more progress by addressing those sincere motives than you will by labeling them racist.

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If the outcome is racist, it's a problem that needs to be confronted and that the people involved need to be educated about in that context.

Without the systematically bad outcome for a group of disadvantaged people, there is no big problem, after all.

So call it what it is. If the intentions look good, go about it in a gentle way.