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Originally posted by Doc
Y'all really just don't get it.
Pandering to your feelings gets us nowhere. All it does is make it that much easier for you to ignore the issue.
From abolition to the Civil Rights movement, change did not come from worrying about how White people felt. These issues are far too serious to worry about how you feel. The feelings of oppressors hurt by being called out as a whole pale in comparison to the feelings of the oppressed themselves, and thus, they mean nothing. Your feelings are irrelevant. Irrelevant. The moment you get that fundamental fact is the moment you become wholly conscious to your privilege and to the real social and racial issues that exist presently.
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The Civil Rights issue is an excellent example. You know why? Because the most iconic person from it, Martin Luther King, Jr., fought racism with equality. He did not stereotype all whites, regardless of actions/beliefs/etc. as the oppressors, he did not support racist ideologies of any kind, etc. He instead fought for
equality. The idea that all races are equal, that people shouldn't be stereotyped or treated differently on something they have no control over such as race. And that's the way this topic should be approached. There are absolutely ways to make a point without racist attacks, and doing it that way will not only make it more heard and spread, but also gain far more support than Azealia's own racist methods or saying "the feelings of the oppressors [while stereotyping every right as an oppressor of blacks, no less] don't matter."