Not thinking about race=racism. Thinking about race=racism. Welcome to 2021 🤡

lol

This Boomer is 63 and she is describing the world of her youth. Not helpful at all.

All of them get triggered when it comes to talking about race...how strange...?

@phoenixkhost this is not fallacy. Dr. Diangelo says that white people take umbrage with or deny the mere idea that they may consciously or unconsciously speak/act in racially discriminatory ways. From her perspective, to even suggest that a white person is racist by their actions causes an emotional reaction, even though that white person took no time to analyze the assertion for its merits. Reading the comments here, you can see that that is the case... Some people immediately go to name calling with seemingly no critical thinking/introspection; some flat deny that there is any validity to anything see has said; some dislike just because they don't like her talking about white people in any critical way. For fun, let's test this hypothesis... (I will, for the sake of this test, assume that you are a non- black male.) My question to you is: have you ever said to a black person (or heard another white person) that you don't see them as black, or that you treat everyone the same no matter what they look like? If you have, then I would say that you are making a racist statement. Do you agree with my assertion? Why or why not?

@phoenixkhost I don't think that she is infallible; I just think that her description of that phenomenon is accurate.

@phoenixkhost And I can't be one of those people because I am not in a position of systemic power that could enable me to legally or normally mistreat you. For example, it was made legal in New York to legally violate all citizens' 4th amendment rights with "stop and frisk". Studies showed that nearly all the stop and frisks were done on black/brown people. We know that police are not just white (although the first policemen were exclusively white), but the system allows and even condones a violation of the rights of minorities (The fact that officers of any ethnicity chose to persue overwhelmingly black/brown people is a whole other conversation). Another example: Black people were (and still are) not able to purchase homes in certain areas, either through written law or through tradition (redlining, covenants, discriminatory lending practices which happened after the Fair Housing act, which had to be created because housing was unfair until that time). Everyone has bias. Everyone can discriminate. But only certain people can discriminate and have the legal authority or traditional solidarity to be racist.

@phoenixkhost wow. Do you have a cliff notes version of that? #circumloquation

@phoenixkhost I just wasn't in the right mindset to digest all of it. There were too many points that I would've had to address. After some time to take it in, I've concluded that, in general, the isolated and exceptional incidents that you cite as evidence pale in comparison to the norms that are diametrically opposed. For example, 2 black guys beating up a white guy simply because he's black is an exception, not a norm... And even if it wasn't considered a hate crime, you can be sure those black men would receive sentences worthy of hate crime status. Also, some of your evidence is inaccurate. Michael Brown didn't punch the cop or try to take his gun, per multiple eyewitness accounts... But if he did and the murder was justified, a white male who had been murdered by a policeman most certainly wouldn't be left dead in the street, having received no medical attention, for hours. The main issue I have with you argument is that you look at outcomes while disregarding causation.

@temet nosce Some people are more valued under capitalism no matter their race or personality. Some people just have value. All people discriminate and blacks happen to be the minority.