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[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This tweet from Thorn guy illustrates all the problems with using the passive voice to suggest that what some people do is what all people do, and with pretending that the perceptions and behaviors of certain individuals = the perceptions and behaviors of the whole human race.

Thorn said:

Black women get called mannish and aggressive, south Asian girls get belittled for having hair on their faces

When what he really meant was

Some racist, misogynistic and regressively sexist people like me call Black women mannish and aggressive, and belittle south Asian girls for having hair on their faces