[funereal-disease]

Sometimes I still think about that time that someone submitted to a confessions blog that they were scared of being called racist because of their faceblindness, and the mod responded “trying to opt out of being called racist is privileged and you should feel bad”

like

what must your mindscape look like if that seems like an appropriate response

[lenyberry]

…did the mod not know what “faceblind” means? 

[funereal-disease]

I think the logic was “you may not be racist because you’re faceblind, but you’re probably racist anyway, so fuck you”

[mitigatedchaos]

At some point the correct response is that you don’t care whether others will call you racist, and you reject their authority to apply the label. While not SJ ideal, one simply cannot trust randoms to apply the racism label correctly or even consistently, which has contributed to its erosion in recent years.