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Originally posted by FBF
So what ? I'm a french white, France had colonies in Africa. Do you want me to fail and be miserable ?
You can strive for equality without the need to put anyone down, even groups of people that are notorious for having caused inequality in the first place, if you want to exclude those groups you'll never be able to achieve equality. And it wouldn't be fair because not every straight man thinks like this.
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Literally no one wants you to fail.
But some of you will NEVER grasp historical context.
How are white men failing in 2016 in America?
Let's look at HOW Trump won.
Let's see this "economic anxiety" that sent whites to him.
There are largely non-white counties in Michigan and Wisconsin with double the poverty rates than the white counties that flipped from Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016 in both states. Many of these largely urban counties stayed for Hillary - why? The highest Native American counties in those two states have HORRIBLE poverty, but stayed with the Dems - why?
Why do whites react so drastically and differently to poverty than POC?
Of course everyone can succeed and DESERVES the right to succeed, but there's just.. a difference between the way many white folks react to problems versus non-white folks, even on something like the economy. White people scapegoat undocumented immigrants for "lower wages" - w
hen we know this is factually not true - and yet many people of color don't. Why?
There is a difference in the discourse because there is a tangible difference in the way white folks react to, benefit from, and tackle issues than people of color, on a landscape informed and created by white supremacy.
Trump didn't even get the poor vote.

He got the $50k+ vote - why? I thought he was a populist candidate for the poor?
You have people of color facing intense economic oppression STILL siding with Democrats who push inclusive and for-all policies, but middle class whites flip to WHITE NATIONALISM AND XENOPHOBIA the moment they go from making $60k/year to $50k/year in dead industries? WHY? Just... the way the conversations vary has to speak of a mindset of privilege allowed by bigotry. We can tackle white poverty, but we have to be honest about what whites consider themselves "poor" and how there's a dishonesty in their egos.