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Originally posted by gloamingtheplain
The problem with all videos like this, or messages like this, it targets the minority of whites who are actually racist, but makes out all whites are like this.
If the majority whites were actually racist, America would be a lot worse off.
The video itself if racist, because it stereotypes whites as racists it's a stupid video.
How about you make it "2017 resolutions for RACISTS".
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See - I can see this, but then this same attitudes need to apply to all groups.
For example, Muslims. Someone else described it well here in an issue re: terrorism. MOST Muslims are not going to rebuke and abandon their religion in the name of "progress" because they don't see themselves as doing anything wrong by just existing and don't see themselves as culpable for the actions of a few radicals around the world (most of whom target other Muslims themselves).
You have those on the right calling for Muslims to speak out against radical Islam or for black people to call out "black on black crime", yet when this attitude is finally flipped (since the grouping of non-white folks to criticize
predates cultural critiques aimed at white people) around and put on white people, examining privilege and white supremacy, the right spits out arguments like "The KKK is down to 6k members nationwide" or "No one alive could have been a slave" ad nauseam.
Either we're ALL individuals or none of us are. Either ALL of us are only responsible for ourselves or ALL of us are intrinsically connected to the constructions that make up our identities (race / gender / sexuality / class).