mahiwaga

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Respectability Politics and Projection

Bill Cosby makes me think that the reason why some PoCs turn to respectability politics is that they’re secretly terrible—possibly quite monstrous—people who want to convince other PoCs that if they get called out, it will make the whole race look bad, so it’s in everyone’s best interest to never call them out.

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