My response requires a whole thread, which is why I’m taking it out of the previous conversation. This is what I know: racism against Black ppl anywhere is an existential threat to Black ppl everywhere. To fight against racism is not to be racist. https://twitter.com/royalmusing/status/1295069476350824453

If the majority group is constantly oppressing the minority, if the minority responds by not liking the majority group who are perpetrating the hate, that is not racism. That is anti-racism.

Are the people who fought against apartheid in South Africa the same as those who perpetrated Apartheid? Were slaves in the West Indies who fought against & killed the white people enslaving them ‘the same as’ the people enslaving them?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed for trying to kill Hitler. Was he the same as Hitler? Would you say Hitler was a killer and by trying to kill him, Bonhoeffer was the same as Hitler? I hope not.

Racism aimed at Meghan – & it *is* racism – is not the same as anti-racism aimed at defending her & all other Black people at the same time. Because if they get away with it with s.o. like Meghan, they will be doing it to their neighbors.

On the charge of obscenity: it is always the dominant group which wants to set the rules of war. The British soldiers said guerilla warfare was cowardly; people should ‘fight like a man’. Because they had the weapons for face-to-face warfare…

…and the guerilla fighters did not. So the dominant group labels obscene and disgraceful the weapons being used against them. They started the war, they set the rules of the conflict in order to determine the outcome in their favor.

In short, this is not a Duchess fight. It’s about fighting against moral evils and for human rights. IMO, it’s about are we going to be the Resistance or are we going to be the Nazis.