Some people here need to understand that racism is primarily systemic. While there are individual aspects to it (yes, what your uncle said IS racist), that just not using slurs or being a "good person" doesn't mean you're not actively complicit in racism by reifying racist tropes that these systems rely on to keep functioning.
Everything exists within a context, and nothing happens in a vacuum.
Even if you "didn't mean it like that", it's still perceived that way and still lends power to systemic racism.
Yeah, it's tiring to constantly be aware of the impact your words have. Suck it up, sunshine.
This is what we mean by "doing the work". But no matter how tired you are, I guarantee it's literally nothing compared to the tiredness felt by those people who exist under that racist system.
It never ends. It needs to be done. Stop complaining and just get on with it and stop crying about it.
