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“Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.”

— Margaret Fuller, “Letter to Arthur Buckminster Fuller (20 December 1840)”, The Letters of Margaret Fuller

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“Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions. But make sure you guard against the other kind of confusion. People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time — even when hard at work.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (2.7)

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If Race isn't real, than you can't actually be racist. Because you can't hate someone for something that doesn't exist. Also, you might want to speak to 'God', because... Guess what? Genetically there are certain diseases to which Black People are immune/highly resistant, and others to which White People are immune/highly resistant based purely on Genetic Characteristics. Finally, if Race isn't real, a White Guy can claim "I'm an African-American!" and you can't tell him he isn't, OK?

Race isn’t real but the social power behind it is that’s what my post literally said initially 

Race was invented by white people to prove that white people were superior to all People of Color to justify murdering them, raping them, and stealing all their land and resources. That’s why People of Color can’t be racist towards white people. You can’t take part in a system that exists solely to oppress you and people like you, but people who benefit from that system can and do. 

Different people are immune to different things but that has to do with where they are located geographically, environmental pressures/conditions, and yes genetics but a persons skin color doesn’t have anything to do with what kind of diseases they can or can’t contract. Correlation doesn’t equal causation 

*sigh* As I stated earlier race isn’t real but the systematic and social power behind it are and this dumb ass ask illustrated why that needed to be highlighted. Bc even though race isn’t real and was literally made up by the people in power to keep and justify their power, jackasses like you can twist that fact and use the same notions of race to try and dismiss the very real oppression of people of color. 

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