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Reflecting on #StopAsianHate
White Savior Complex
English - April 24, 2021 02:48 - 32 minutes - 30 MBPersonal Journals Society & Culture News News Commentary reverse racism black institutional white george floyd wypipo racism whiteness black on black crime breonna taylor Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The murder trial of Dereck Chauvin came to an end last week. In past episodes we've discussed extensively the ideas and tensions underlying police brutality, so in this episode we simply consider, very briefly, what's next after the guilty verdict. Then we move into some deep reflection on the role of anti-Asian bigotry in our collective conscious, and how that informs the bright but brief publicity of #StopAsianHate. Finally, we take a quick look at how our white savior complex can disguise itself as passion and purpose, sneakily poisoning and undermining the ways we show up as anti-racists.