Tape 046London
Reel VERDICTJJ
Racial abuse is still abuse
The words
And the mad thing is that people
don't treat racial trauma or racial
abuse the way they treat other forms of abuse. And that's kind
of like. That's kind of got to me because you don't go
and ask a sexual assault victim or someone that's
been a victim of, like, rape or any type of sexual abuse.
You don't go up to their face and be like, oh, yeah, how was that situation?
Or was it really rape? Or was it this? Was it that?
Like, you respect what they experienced
in a sense of. That's their experience. And you let
like, you don't overstep.
But when it comes to racism, everyone feels entitled or
comfortable to, like, discredit what
you experienced. Gaslight. You put question
marks to anything you say and literally taunt
you about what you've experienced. And
I'm like, yo,
racial abuse is still abuse.
Sexual abuse is still abuse.
I'm not trying to, like, compare two
evils, but I'm saying abuse is abuse, and
let's act accordingly.
The room
Nobody walks up to someone who survived sexual abuse and asks whether it was really that bad, whether it really happened, whether they’re sure. We have learned — slowly, not completely — to respect what a person says they experienced and not overstep. With racism, everyone feels entitled to cross-examine: to discredit, to gaslight, to put question marks after everything you say. So I said it as plainly as I could. Racial abuse is still abuse. Sexual abuse is still abuse. I’m not comparing evils. Abuse is abuse, and we should act accordingly.
The argument is not that the two are the same. It is that the courtesy we have learned to extend in one case is the one withheld in the other. I have been asked to prove my own experiences more times since than I can count. This was me refusing the premise before I knew how often I would need to.
The receipt
Words
Fireflies · diarised audio transcript
VERDICT transcript, the cut · Speaker 2 · turns 00:10:41 + 00:11:36
Speaker 2 = JJ · anchored on 3 lines
Time
FCP captions · the cue lines
VERDICT captions, the cut · 00:10:39.5–00:11:46.8
Provenance
The canon index
VERDICT master index v1.1 · V3-13, V3-14
DivergenceThe captions drop a clause at 11:05. The transcript is printed.
Testimony, not fabrication.
The decode
ABUSEa reading of the word — not of the passage
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