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[hungryandhollow]

today my students were doing a worksheet about conversations, and the page had a pretty simple black-and-white picture of a couple people talking to each other

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[diablaxmachina]

Oh, Taxi. What would you do if he DID show up in blackface one day, though??

[fornikate]

why is his name taxi

[hungryandhollow]

no one knows

[mayet]

I think all kids are like that though. I remember being young enough that I was being washed in the same bath as a boy by his mother. The family was from Bahrain and I pointed out how much darker his skin was from mine. His mom then gave us a (kindly) speech about how everyone's skin is beautiful.

I was very annoyed at her speech, which I took as me being scolded. I hadn't been saying anything about anyone's skin being beautiful. I was making an objective observation.

And yes, Taxi has now made those people look like Africans. Objectively. He pigmented their skin. I think at that age it doesn't matter and he will grow out of it, until adults teach him to be racist.

I wish my name was Taxi.

[hungryandhollow]

well yes i don't think taxi is racist but how the fuck do you even begin to explain this kind of thing through a language barrier

[mayet]

I guess I was saying you don't really have to explain anything to him at this juncture. If an adult is going to be offended by something like that in a child that young, they don't understand children and don't have the right to be offended.

[ifandonlyif]

yeah i'm pretty sure i did that once when i was a little kid, luckily my parents witnessed it and were like uhhhh and talked to me about it and i felt very embarrassed