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In the critical study of race, “acting white” is a concept that describes when people of color, especially black people, engage in a (cultural) performance of whiteness, very frequently in professional or academic settings.

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When advocates of Critical Social Justice ask people to be more "tolerant," what they mean is to take on a particular form of self-serving intolerance that acts in service to their radical & revolutionary agenda.