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>The Whiteness that subjugates and appropriates. The >Whiteness that’s performatively and conveniently oblivious >and sneakily complicit. The Whiteness that violently enacts >suffocating laws while remaining shamelessly immoral. The >Whiteness that denies, obfuscates, lies, oppresses, plunders, >snatches, shames, feigns, gaslights, constricts, endangers, >terrifies, perplexes, debauches, and corrupts. The Whiteness >we’re warned about by grandparents and encyclopedias and >perpetually weary of. She is both transparently capital letter >White and so capital letter White that she’s practically >transparent. You see her and you see privilege. You see bias. >You see nervously clutched purses in seven-second-long >elevator rides and hysterical emails to human resources. You >see theft. And mostly you see a void — an endless, yawning, >and funereal chasm — filled only by the status she believes >her physical and metaphysical Whiteness provides.
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