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  • I sometimes wonder if I’m wrong about myself, maybe I am racist in some way but am blind to it. How would I even know?

    My stance is that everyone is at least a little racist, in some way. Racism is such an essential part of society and culture, probably almost everywhere by now, that no one can avoid it entirely. However, we can try to recognize it in ourselves and other people and minimize it, and that’s what really makes the difference, the end goal being to eradicate racism entirely (also apply this to all kinds of -isms and -phobias you can think of).

    Maybe there are people who have cleansed themselves entirely of racism. In my view, that’s comparable to achieving some sort of enlightened or transcendent state, which most of us can only aspire to.















  • I’m not sure how common this is, and I probably need to delve into the literature a bit, but we typically learn that our language has a simple 3-“tense” system (past/present/future). Aside from some obvious exceptions such as a periphrastic past habitual, periphrastic conditional (contrafactual) form, two imperatives and some compounds using the passive participle, I’ve noticed myself using the past and future purely aspectually, such as with present time descriptors.

    EDIT: I have since learned that the so-called “future” form is generally interpreted as doing double duty as future and general “modal” (except for the specific cases covered by the conditional and past habitual form). So it really is a future tense, but also used for any kind of modal purpose (intent/command/goal/…), so my aspectual analysis might not be entirely accurate.

    We also have historical present (but it’s not good literary style) and whatever the future equivalent of that is named.