Was the ‘race card’ pulled??

My post was meant to be ironic, though appreciate that wouldn’t be obvious to those who haven’t read all my posts.

Personally I believe the hierarchy of oppression / pyramid of privilege is a particularly unhelpful concept that encourages victimhood and suppresses progress and positive outcomes.

Hispanics are quite high on the pyramid of privilege though, so she shouldn’t expect anything sympathy from the embittered CRT crowd.

I accept that we all have unconscious biases that we need to acknowledge and be open to addressing when highlighted, but that goes both ways. POC can have biases against white people (and other races) in the same way white people can. We are all human after all.

However, whereas I don’t doubt that racism exists with individuals, I don’t agree that structural and systemic racism exists in the UK today to any appreciable degree. This doesn’t mean I don’t accept there aren’t differences in disadvantage and wealth between communities, I just don’t believe that “racism” is the cause of those differences.

For instance, proportionally fewer children of Indian and Chinese decent are eligible for free school meals, and on average have higher educational attainment than their White British counterparts.

The issue, if anything, is culture, and various aspects of White British working class culture do them no favours when it comes to being healthy and wealthy.

The belief that “racism” is behind social issues in society is a smokescreen that diverts from the real issues.

As for Trump, I strongly dislike the man, but one of the reasons for his rise is massive overreach from the Left, and their attempts to overcompensate for past discrimination. And it’s interesting that his share of the vote increased significantly amongst certain ethnic group, demonstrating that they are also tired of all this.

You belittled her; she responded. That’s that. Stop making every little thing about racial grievance!

I’ve never met someone who actually uses the phrase ‘the race card’ who was not, in fact, a racist.

You’re offended by ‘Wowsers’ but happy to swear yourself?

Talk about white privilege and fragility.

Recognising that racism is systemic/ structural , and that unconscious bias exists, is important because it’s true.

This is no way denigrates white people or causes them to suffer.

The fact that you believe this is concerning and the reason we have people like Trump.

Oh do fuck off

So just got back from vacation. At the airport, my daughter and I were queuing for passport control when a girl/teen pushed past in front of us. 5 seconds later I heard a lady say to me “excuse me, we just want to join our niece” pointing to the girl who’d pushed in. Without focusing too much attention on her or the family, but seeing an additional 3 people (another teen and two women) I said “sorry, but that girl just shoved in, so maybe it’s better she joins you instead” (meaning the 1 girl who’d pushed in should join her family behind my daughter and I, and not the whole family move in front of my daughter and I.

The lady said “oh, I don’t think she pushed in, darling” in a clearly sarcastic tone, but I didn’t reply as the girl/teen then walked back to join her aunt behind us.

Then I heard the woman say to the girl “you know exactly why she thinks she needs to be in front of us, this is another example”. At this stage I assume she meant I felt entitled to say this because they were a family of colour! So instead of pulling up the teen for pushing past us, the adult put the responsibility of this situation on me, insinuating I was bullying them for racially motivated reasons!!

It hadn’t even crossed my mind that they were black/white/asian whatever family! Only that a person had pushed past my daughter and I and the family felt they then had a right to go in front.

Comments continued among the adults in the family to the teens around how this was another example why the teenagers had to be more assertive “in this world” and that I, “the lady” was in the wrong.

I didn’t react, or say anything as I didn’t want to escalate something that clearly wasn’t there, and continued to look in front (not in their direction) or be accused of anything especially in an airport with a flight to catch! Later after passport control, I was standing talking to my daughter when the other adult (who I hadn’t looked at previously) violently pushed into my back as they walked past. I was very shocked by this (again I brushed this off).

People who have genuinely experienced racism - was I unreasonable, and were they justified to jump to this conclusion? I understand there’s a long, complex history around race, but I am not aware, at least on a conscious level, of discriminating against anyone like this??

Yes, you’re right, it’s terrifying when you think about it, and the way in which some on the Left are trying to inflame racial tensions by viewing everything through a distorted lens of racial grievance (at least it would be if it gained traction).

The issue isn’t the correct belief that racism exists and needs addressing…. it’s the extrapolation of this into a belief that society is systematically racist to its foundations, and that almost everything, conscious and unconscious, is an expression of racist bias that goes to a white person’s core.

And that this then gives Black and POC people the moral authority to demand that white people atone, adapt and supplicate themselves in response to this systemic injustice, and accept the experiences of Black and POC people as inherently more authentic and valid than white people’s experiences which are fundamentally rooted in prejudice that needs to be purged and purified.

It’s a worldview that absolutely uses the almost universal recognition in western liberal societies that racism is morally wrong to justify an ideology of that empowers Black and POC as it denigrates White people.

It doesn’t seek to level the playing field, it seeks to turn the tables.

It doesn’t seek reconciliation, it seeks retribution.

Its power lies in racial division and mistrust, and so perversely it needs to fan the flames of racism in order to thrive. So, yes, it’s pernicious…

Oh do fuck off

On the basis of the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of racism as “Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior.", then yes, white people can experience racism in the same way as anyone else.

It’s only according to the Leftist Critical Race Theory, which divisively grades races into oppressor and oppressed classes, that anti-white racism is impossible. But I reject that thesis, as I believe most people do.

The fact that you “honestly can’t believe” that i believe white people can experience racism is indicative that you’ve lived in a Leftist echo-chamber for far too long! Try getting out into the real world and you’ll see how most people think, even if you believe they are very much mistaken.

And yes, inverted sexism exists, it’s called misandry.

I honestly can't believe you're saying white people are the victims of inverted racism. Have you any idea how ridiculous that is. Would you also say a man is a victim of inverted sexism?

I honestly can't believe you're saying white people are the victims of inverted racism. Have you any idea how ridiculous that is. Would you also say a man is a victim of inverted sexism?

Challenging racism is not inverted racism… that’s not remotely what I said.

I can also respect white people who have experienced prejudice, like Irish for example who have been treated awfully in the past and in some ways still are. But lets not go there, because I can give you many examples. It's not inverted racism to challenge racism, don't be so pathetic 🤣 Inverted racism, ha ha ha, that has to be the most ridiculous concept I have ever heard 🤣

I'm not white.
There's nothing wrong in saying pulled the race card.
This is exactly what happened.
These are the types to make false claims at work.
Makes it hard for people that really do suffer from racism.

pernicious ideology of anti-white prejudice

this would be funny if it weren’t so terrifying.

Disturbing?! The people who I find most disturbing on this thread are those like you and others who gaslight and belittle anyone who dares to challenge your pernicious ideology of anti-white prejudice that respects the lived experience of anyone other but white people. It’s inverted racism and it’s toxic, and it’s so exhaustingly negative. I’m heartened by the vote that supported the OP 96% to 4%, even if she admits she used loaded terminology.