Status Updates From White Benevolence: Racism a...

Really took my time with this one, and finally nearing the end. More thoughts to come; I just loved this quote: "I [Alex Wilson] asked [Dr. Kalani Young], 'What does queering mean to you?' and she says that queering is transforming a poison into medicine."

In context of broader discourse about how meritocracy serves to compel hard work while blaming oppressed people for their lack of access to privilege:
"... 'multiculturalism does not view racialized people as actors with agency.' Instead, white settler Canadians maintain power and continue to dictate the parameters of belonging, all the while appearing benevolent through offers of nominal cultural participation."

"A system of genocide, residential schools were characterized by harsh punishment and rampant abuse, and they imposed infeasible rules against any displays of Indigenous identity."
I feel like school dress codes and policing Black students' expression, language, and tone are usually examined on their own, rather than recognizing them as the latest in a long line of efforts to control and 'civilize' people of color.

"This person [healthcare professional quoted in an ethnography of anti-Indigenous racism in healthcare] is explaining a dynamic where fear of conflict and the taboo of interrupting racism creates the conditions that allow Indigenous Peoples to die. The conditions created are a health care culture where a service provider would rather risk the patient's health than be seen as a traitor to the idealized profession."

"Nazila Bettache, an internist and assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Université de Montréal, and Samir Shaheen-Hussein, a Montreal pediatric emergency physician and assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University, describe systemic medical racism as 'a culture in medicine that dehumanizes individuals and stigmatizes entire communities.'"

Written about Canadian settler colonialism, but could just as easily be written about American racism:
"The discourses of denial construct Canada as a benevolent state that embraces multiculturalism and tolerance. The histories and cultural practices associated with whiteness are so deeply normalized in everyday life in the settler colony that whiteness becomes an invisible backdrop that requires excavation."