White Fragility.

First we prove it exists.

 

Education, education, and more education. The more our children know where and when they are encountering racism in daily life the better they will be able to deal with it

 

Funny thing how many Mexicans and blacks I know who share those same dreaded traits.

On behalf of all taxpayers of any color, I salute the ones we're supporting. Now go plunder another country.

 

If ALL people were simply considered "PEOPLE" there would be no need for the word racism at all.
Maybe consider giving up the adjectives (white, black, red, yellow) for a change. But of course then you could no longer be special.

 

But then, we wouldn't be people....

Being of a particular race is nothing special: everyone else of the same race is of that race, too. But many people cling to their race as something that makes them superior to people of other races. For others, it's their nationality or ethnicity, their religion, their political ideology, their looks, their education, their intellect, their wealth, their career, their breeding, etc. that makes them superior to others. People do seem to have a need to feel they are better than others. Race is merely one of the dumbest things people can believe makes them better than others.

 

Yeah, I agree. That's how I was raised (to see people as individuals). But I was heavily influenced by MLK and the Civil Rights Era as a young child. That's why I'm a conservative today. The right is far more color blind.

 

Exactly, when black people start realizing that burning down their own neighborhoods and selling drugs and having gang wars on their streets holds back their community, they will stop crying about "systemic racism". It's all a matter of getting them educated. Unfortunately it's much cooler for them to be a rapper, or a drug dealer or an athlete rather than top of the class or a member of the science club. Which is good for progressives because then they can blame rich people for the behavior of uneducated people and that makes them just feel really good about themselves. Also, I am college educated but I still don't know who I should talk to about college admission practices that favor one race of others, or companies that have hiring practices that prefer one group to another, or grants that prefer certain genders or races, or colleges that are for one race only. They never had a course on how to deal with these systemic injustices. Of course my classes were geared toward computer science and not social justice. I guess I found it more valuable to learn how to take care of myself than going on jealous tirades about invisible boogeymen holding me down.

 

Thanks for reply. Can you please explain how the right is far more color blind?

 

Perhaps that selfish habit has been the biggest threat to humanity....and still is.

 

~ The left seem obsessed with race and gender. They don't see who a person is - they see what a person is.

" I don’t want a Black History Month. Black History is American History. There is no `White History month.’ The only way to end racism is to stop talking about it."

~ Morgan Freeman​

 

IMO the bigger threat is that even more than feeling superior to others, people like to exercise power over others. I have no reason to care, particularly, if you feel superior to me. Many religious people, for example, belief that their beliefs make them superior to unbelievers in the eyes of God, the ultimate authority on who is superior to whom. Fine. That doesn't bother me because they are just delusional. But when someone wants -- or has -- the power to make me do what they want me to do instead of what I want to do, or to take from me what is rightly mine, that is going to be a problem.

 

Far easier to explain how Democrats went from having an ideal of a color blind society to slicing and dicing people into identity tribes by their skin color...to today having people like DiAngelo telling all white people they're racists and the protests are for black lives. The right wing didn't do that.

 

But how is the right less color blind?? I really can't see any difference at all between white left and white right
except that white left is willing to stand up against abuse of Black people.
Please tell me how "right is less color blind" as you have stated.

 

Still comes from the same basic idea. Whether you prefer to call it having a need to be superior, special, exercising power over others makes no difference.
All those things stem from the same thought....that you want.... not "need" to see yourself as better than the other.
Perhaps you have noticed that same desire in yourself.

 

Racist statements? Not at all! These are statements of Critical Race Theory as promulgated by the National Institute of African American History.

https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonia...l-thinking-hard-work-are-white-values-1518333

 

^^^ White Fragility ^^^

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/l...-and-more-from-the-author-of-white-fragility/

 

I caught that! It's racist if someone on the right says the same thing that critical race theorists say!

It's not what's said, but who is allowed to say it!

 

It makes a huge difference to those others, who have a choice whether to feel inferior or not when others feel superior to them, but no choice when those who want power over them obtain such power.

I don't think it's the same thought. It's like the difference between ambition -- the desire to deserve more than you have -- and greed: the desire to have more than you deserve.

Of course. I sometimes feel superior to people who don't understand things I understand; but I can remember when I didn't understand those things, either, and that helps keep it real.

 

It might have something to do with a dawning realization that a color-blind society was not only not going to be an equal society, but would not be a society in which they would have power.

 

Now this is hilarious!

Seattle Demands All White City Employees Share Examples Of Their Own Racism

Seattle's Office of Civil Rights has developed a "race and social justice" curriculum on “institutionalized racial superiority” for all 10,000 city employees.

The program is designed to train white people only, according to documents obtained by independent journalist Christopher Rufo, Yahoo reports. In a series of tweets, he lays out the gist of the program, even sharing a powerpoint slide from the course that asks “What do we do in white people space?”

“I've obtained new documents from the city's segregated "whites-only" trainings, which induct white employees into the cult of critical race theory,” Rufo wrote on Twitter.

“After attendees arrive, they must announce their pronouns and tell the trainers when they first became race-conscious—in other words, when they began their journey of internalized racism,” he added.

Whites only training. Everything old is new again.

George Wallace smiles.

 

It is no accident that this is reminiscent of Mao's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.

 

~ What is "white" ? Spanish, Greek, Italian ..?

 

Since I agree with her answer, may I say, because we listened to the part about judging a man by his character and not his skin color. I have always believed that to be true.

 

Asking that question is a sure fire way to find yourself in remedial race and social justice class.

 

Heh, no coincidence at all! I imagine that was used as a model.

Enjoy the struggle sessions honkies!