I feel like we are forgetting how the Russians targeted liberals hard, and in our hubris we fell for it.

You know what you could spend $500 on? Plane tickets. To travel. And then blog about it.

It actually complicated race in that you felt the need to bring that aspect of it into the discussion at all - for the obvious purpose of excusing or diminishing that writer’s role in the mess.

it’s the ‘but’, that makes the comment weird for me. If they said the writer is black AND the editors are white, it sort of groups them together in their culpability. As written, I feel like it was excusing the black writer from ignorance and/or ill intentions.

First, there isn’t any evidence, whatsoever, that black Americans are more informed regarding Indian customs than white Americans; if we’re being honest, Americans in general tend to have a very cursory knowledge of India, its people and traditions, and most of what they know is colored by orientalist misrepresentation…

its the white peoples fault the woman wrote this, got it

And we’re definitely not doing Asians a favor when we treat anti-Asian racism differently when it comes from black people.

How ‘bout just saying it was a racist inclusion to be sure to point out that the editors were white?

Lord have mercy, stop digging yourself into an even deeper hole.

Why not all 3?

“Speaking of Black writers, I think they do tend to be more cognizant of issues with Blacks and Hispanic, but other racial groups they tend to be just as ignorant as most white people.” It’s almost as if it’s natural, and not just a white American problem.  

The mental gymnastics on display here. Yeesh.

So, according to Prachi, the black writer is guilty of having a white perspective about Indian people, and the implication is that she (the writer) was tricked/coerced/pressured into adopting a white perspective by her white editors and or the institutionalized whiteness of the Cut as an organization.

I don’t know, It sounded like the person writing the Article had a personal beef with Chopra or had a crush on Jonas or something. I mean the editors clearly shouldn’t have let this get printed, but the writer is the one that wrote it, not the editors. Speaking of Black writers, I think they do tend to be more cognizan…

Tip of the iceberg.

You gotta trip pretty hard to write that article

People have a hard time with this concept, because *institutional racism* (which is more insidious) is, in America, something that comes from white folks exclusively. However, interpersonal racism, where a person judges another by their race, can be practiced by anyone.

The insinuation that a black woman can’t be racist and/or xenophobic and/or out of touch is incredibly bizarre.

Or it could be read as “she shouldn’t be expected to understand these things and should have been protected by her white overlords but they are culturally clueless so she’s off the hook.” Equally bizarre and bad.

It’s really crazy because when I talk to some Americans about institutional racism in Asian and African countries, some people just can’t seem to understand that non-white people can commit those actions.  They can only view such issues through the US lens.