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We're white liberals (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago by TokenBoomer to c/breadtube

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[–] TokenBoomer -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Race is a social construct, but racism is not.

I’ll tell all my friends who participated in the Black Lives Matter protests that racism is over, because some dude on the internet called it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Race is a social construct, but racism is not.

Right, how does justifying racism by participating in it help your friends who went to the black lives matter protest?

[+] TokenBoomer -6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’ve given many examples of the micro aggressions of white liberal racism, that you fail to acknowledge. Racism isn’t something you can ignore, and it goes away. It has to be addressed and consistently confronted, like I’m doing here.

Systemic racism, the oppression of a racial group to the advantage of another as perpetuated by inequity within interconnected systems (such as political, economic, and social systems) exists.

You want to think that you’re above it, or not part of it, when liberals are the stumbling block for progress.

MLK wrote:

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

You. He was talking about YOU !

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve given many examples of the micro aggressions of white liberal racism, that you fail to acknowledge.

You've posted memes without context..... and I've explained several times how utilizing race science to fight racism is counter productive.

Racism isn’t something you can ignore, and it goes away. It has to be addressed and consistently confronted, like I’m doing here.

I've said in every response that we shouldn't ignore the realities of the what the concept of race has birthed. My explicit complaint has been people utilizing the same concept in an attempt to confront it. It doesn't work, it just perpetuates it. There are more ways to confront racism than participating and perpetuating the belief of racial science.

Systemic racism, the oppression of a racial group to the advantage of another as perpetuated by inequity within interconnected systems (such as political, economic, and social systems) exists.

Ahh yes, explain systemic racism to a minority...... Check. Okay now explain how utilizing the belief structure that made and continues to allow systemic racism to exist = confronting racism?

When you try and calm a room in hysteria, do you do it by screaming? When you want to get someone to stop cursing, do you do it by calling them a fuck wit? What leads you to believe engaging in racism confronts racism? To me it just seems like you're just participating in a cathartic exercise that does nothing but sooth your own sense of ease, while in reality your just yelling at a room full of people screaming.

You want to think that you’re above it, or not part of it, when liberals are the stumbling block for progress.

I'm a fucking socialist you twat. And I'm not above the consequences of the concept of race, I deal with them daily. What I'm above is being labeled as a pigment instead of being acknowledged as a human being. I guess being labeled as a shade on the color wheel doesn't bite so hard when you benefit from it, I wouldn't know.

You. He was talking about YOU !

Again, you ignorant fuck. I'm not white, I'm not a moderate. I am a middle aged man of color who grew up in the Dixie south. I'm a socialist, and have been organizing mutual aid groups for longer than you've probably been alive.

Just because I don't appreciate being dehumanized by system of organization that you love so much, doesn't mean I'm a white liberal. Maybe next time work on your reading comprehension before you try and pull your white saviour routine again.