{"id":36204,"date":"2011-05-30T10:12:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=36204"},"modified":"2013-11-11T03:08:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T08:08:12","slug":"im-not-a-racist-but-trigger-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/05\/30\/im-not-a-racist-but-trigger-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Not a Racist But… (Trigger Warning)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eduardo\u00a0Bonilla-Silva and Tyrone Forman wrote a wonderful article* examining the discursive strategies white college students use to distance themselves from racism, while still blaming people of color for their own disadvantage or being, straightforwardly, racist. \u00a0Among other strategies, they noted that these students would often preface their comments with the phrase “I am not a racist but…”<\/p>\n

We’ve documented this strategy before with a series of PostSecret confessions<\/a> and we certainly saw it used by UCLA’s Alexandra Wallace in her famous anti-Asian rant<\/a>. \u00a0Now Karen alerted me to a new blog collecting instances of this type of language on Facebook, titled simply I’m Not Racist But…<\/a> It’s pretty stunning what often follows. \u00a0Here are some examples (trigger warning<\/strong> for, um, some seriously racist talk):<\/p>\n

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That was just a selection from the first two pages. \u00a0They are\u00a0lots more<\/a>. \u00a0In a similar vein, you might visit our post about racist tweets and updates after the tsunami hit Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo & Tyrone A. Forman. \u00a02000. \u00a0\u2018I am not a racist but\u2026\u2019: Mapping White college students\u2019 racial ideology in the USA. \u00a0Discourse and Society<\/em> 11, 1: 50-85.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eduardo\u00a0Bonilla-Silva and Tyrone Forman wrote a wonderful article* examining the discursive strategies white college students use to distance themselves from racism, while still blaming people of color for their own disadvantage or being, straightforwardly, racist. \u00a0Among other strategies, they noted that these students would often preface their comments with the phrase “I am not a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,283,285],"class_list":["post-36204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36204"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58859,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204\/revisions\/58859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}