No-one is saying that

"unless you are black or a person of colour (or whatever phrase is currently in use) you cannot express a view on or judge whether something is racist"

No-one at all.

The point is that *there will be times* when people who don't face unspoken and implicit negative discrimination every day - eg privately educated white males - don't see it happening to others. Even when it is. And don't realise the extent to which they are regularly given advantages that others aren't.

So when one someone in a group like that says "of course this isn't discrimination" or "of course this isn't racism", it can be legitimate for people who face discrimination much more often themselves to point that the first group may just not be seeing it. Because of their privilege.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes, Jan 22, 14:44:09