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Originally posted by Communion
We're now 300-400 years into the actions since the beginnings of European colonialism and the framing of the Western world's understanding of "race". Racist systems are still existing from their creation centuries ago and you think asking white people to not use blackface or say slurs will make them suddenly "oppressed"?
Look even at places like South Africa. Look at all of Africa.
Even in non-white majority countries, and even in countries where a violent white majority was overthrown and outdone, there's not been any documented genocides to destroy whiteness.
Whiteness is a global pass. Whiteness is global protection.
Sure, you can say maybe in 5000 years, the whole framing of race will mean something else, and white people will be systematically oppressed, but those are obtuse and meaningless theories with literally nothing intellectually beneficial to them.
You're living in a system centuries old now and it's still maintaining its virtues - white supremacy and anti-blackness. And even the very small steps away from that haven't led to the system "flipping".
White people aren't going to suddenly become systemically oppressed group if black people aren't.
But thank you for finally admitting black people are the ones oppressed & white people aren't.
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Ok guy, thank
you for playing into my point and giving everyone reading this thread an insight as to why Donald Trump is now your president-elect. This reasoning and the actions that it breeds is exactly what got you into this mess.
The ever-lasting victimsm that has fuelled this reasoning is what has led to such a resistance to movements like BLM. 300-400 years since the inception of this system and the racist undertones still haven't been eradicated. Why? Because neither side is ready to let go of it's conceptions of race. Because race is still being seen as a factor. By both sides. Actually, by black people IN PARTICULAR. Because it's cultural appropriation to style your hair in dreadlocks if your skin is not black. Don't you know where that came from? Do you realize how racist that is, privileged white boy, privileged white girl?
Because when Oscar nominations come out and people immediately need to point out that there were no black nominees. Because that's racist. It shouldn't be talent or merit that matters, we need to give the due consideration to an actor/actress' skin colour or race.
Because when it comes to apply to universities with affirmative action programs, it shouldn't be grades or extracurriculars that matter, we need to give the due consideration to an applicant's skin colour or race.
You want to celebrate your culture, your roots, how far you've come, the battles you've fought. I get that, everyone does. But in doing so the way it currently is being done, YOU create the divide by highlighting the differences in our skin colours, YOU isolate yourselves by dictating which activities can and cannot be shared, YOU disenfranchise the white moderate population by constantly telling them to CHECK THEIR PRIVILEGE.
Now, channel that resentment into the news, onto social media, into tv shows by Shonda Rimes over the course of a decade and let it simmer, let it ferment. Then throw in an election. All of sudden, the white moderate population - who voted twice for the first black president - that has been on trial for crimes they didn't commit - who is being guilt-tripped for being favoured by a system they did not create - arrives at the voting station. Who will they vote for? Who will they favour? Themselves. Always. There is no altruism in voting. For you, for them, for anyone. Full stop.
All that to say, the cause is noble, the dream of equality is valid and necessary. The method in which it is currently being sought, is suicide. You have the proof. You push too hard and you've actually strengthened what you were trying to resist and procured yourself the opposite result. Is it fair? Not at all. But in all this, I've never said that any of this was fair. Doesn't change the fact that it's true. Maybe when people start seeing things for what they are instead of what they think they ought to be, we'll have a shift. Until then, you'll have to deal with the ever-growing divide and hold yourself and each other accountable for your contribution to expanding it.
Is this real life?