I read and try to internalize most posts on the subject, but I am seriously way too nervous to every comment because I don't want to be flamed. My experiences as a European from a country where I see a black person maybe three times a day and the main racism is against a completely different group (Turkish and Eastern European people) with a completely different history behind it than in the US sometimes seems too different to comment in a meaningful way on POC in a pre-dominantly US/UK/Australian-centric fandom. I am afraid of saying something that might come across as offensive, even after years of reading those kind of posts. Not being a native speaker does not help with terminology, for example. Yes, I was still taught 'coloured' was an appropriate, not offensive term (it still is in the UK, I think?). Imagine just what the reaction to that would have been had I used it in a fandom debate...
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