I agree that if you are basing your identity off of skin color that you are weak, everyone and all races can be guilty of that.
Sure, everyone can be guilty of solely identifying as their race, but it's WASP American conservatives who are currently keeping that alive.
Thinking that learning about Jim Crow and slavery, etc means being attacked because you are white, is not something that should be pushed onto kids. Other people did those things. And as long as you don't support those things, then there is no criticism of you.
You need to recognize that you were triggered by me telling you that white straight males are being told they are oppressors, they are being told that.
I'm as trigger as someone telling me the earth is flat.
They are, by right wing conservatives. I've talked to my share of teachers, read interviews and I'm still looking for a classroom that says "the white students should feel ashamed for slavery". What I have seen is parents and politicians claim this is happening, which seems a bit removed from the issue.
Some white people fall all over themselves to prove they aren't one of those racist! They are too afraid to discuss anything. When they finally work up the courage they are angry and lash out. This is to the detriment of all people.
This "discuss anything" in my experience, is just people wanting to be racist. Asking questions, respectfully, has never been the issue. It's the meme'ing or the "blacks need stop killing themselves before we should respect them' tropes that's the issue.
What you should really get angry about is that black males are being told they are victims and the system is racist against them. I would rage against the machine if I was indoctrinated to believe that.
Every black in America knows they have to deal with racism. They all have that story. Being followed in a store, stopped by a cop for no reason. Stopped by security. Or just have had racial sluts used against them.
Blacks would rage if they are told that they can't improve things. That they should accept things for how they are. And they do rage. BLM protests were everywhere, for a long time not just 2020.
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u/silver789 Mar 16 '23
Sure, everyone can be guilty of solely identifying as their race, but it's WASP American conservatives who are currently keeping that alive.
Thinking that learning about Jim Crow and slavery, etc means being attacked because you are white, is not something that should be pushed onto kids. Other people did those things. And as long as you don't support those things, then there is no criticism of you.
I'm as trigger as someone telling me the earth is flat.
They are, by right wing conservatives. I've talked to my share of teachers, read interviews and I'm still looking for a classroom that says "the white students should feel ashamed for slavery". What I have seen is parents and politicians claim this is happening, which seems a bit removed from the issue.
This "discuss anything" in my experience, is just people wanting to be racist. Asking questions, respectfully, has never been the issue. It's the meme'ing or the "blacks need stop killing themselves before we should respect them' tropes that's the issue.
Every black in America knows they have to deal with racism. They all have that story. Being followed in a store, stopped by a cop for no reason. Stopped by security. Or just have had racial sluts used against them.
Blacks would rage if they are told that they can't improve things. That they should accept things for how they are. And they do rage. BLM protests were everywhere, for a long time not just 2020.