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Opivy84 t1_j00yqmz wrote

Reply to comment by immalittlepiggy in Punk band Slaves changes name to Soft Play | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site by quitofilms

I told a black coworker that something respectable he did was mighty white of him. I had heard someone in some fucking show say it, and for some ungodly reason it categorized in my head as a generally nice thing to say. Obviously, as soon as I heard the words in the open air, I froze. I apologized to the 3 people present and explained how I never said that phrase before and had just regurgitated some random shit. We turned it into a convo about unconscious racism and programming. The guy was super cool about it, we’re decent friends now, but I still die inside every time I think about it.

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Liet-Kinda t1_j02ffkd wrote

Ooooof, that’s the kind of thing that makes you want to leap screaming into a mine shaft 20 years later.

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Opivy84 t1_j02jfsa wrote

Yeah, especially because my grandparents were pretty racist, that side of the family fought on the wrong side in the civil war, so I’ve always been hyper conscious of not spewing that same vitriol.

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Liet-Kinda t1_j02m1ar wrote

Same story here. My grandfather dropped hard-R n-bombs well into the 1990s.

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somereallyfungi t1_j083vd0 wrote

I only use that phrase sarcasticly. "Oh, you took our seats" "Sorry" "Mighty white of you"

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