“In terms of those ideas, there’s been specific policies that are intersecting in terms of racist and sexist policies that have targeted and harmed black women. The same thing with black men, in terms of them being a racial group that have been affected by racist ideas and policies. […] So, in terms of assessing other people, we should allow for people to essentially make racist mistakes.” — Ibram X Kendi, The most extreme racists say, ‘I’m the least racist person anywhere in the world’, The Guardian, 30viii2019
Elsewhere other-accessible:
• Ex-term-in-nate! — incendiarily interrogating issues around “in terms of” dot dot dot
• All O.o.t.Ü.-F. posts interrogating issues around “in terms of”…
To be honest, this was a hard graf to read. It has so many words and yet it says so little. It felt like time was dilating, the words stretching over an event horizon. I almost didn’t make it out.
Then I had a realisation: in order to survive this paragraph, I had to believe I could survive this paragraph. Then, somehow, I soldiered on to the end.
I hope you’re not being racist. In terms of core unacceptability on this proudly progressive blog, it’s corely unacceptable.