@JigglyTuff
tried reading that article and it still misses the point. I am glad black people have social media now. There is no way white people will shut black people and other minorities up.
If it's about victimhood then so be it. The false excuse people are giving themselves now to assume we are all equal is absurd.
Something has gone horribly wrong with the once noble, optimistic, humanist goal of anti-racism. Not true. After trump was elected. A study was done to look at how different groups felt about the future. Black people where the most optimistic and the least where white people. I can see why that is and right now I don't actually care. For every step black people gain, it's expected that some people will feel Infringed upon. That's their problem, not ours. If we speak up and it hits a nerve, that's their their problem and not ours. I hope more black people speak up.
against those who would have us believe that blacks and whites were fundamentally different and should therefore distrust each other....
side eye with a laugh 😂 . It's always been the case. It's nothing new. It won't be solved unless the underlying issues are dealt with and that is not happening. If black people have always been uneasy and uncomfortable, from not being included in white spaces, from science trying to say black people where different, to always being made to feel like an outsider. Well, this is the problem with whitesplaning, the assumption that we have always been happy and everything is ok because of their little bubble. That quote is hilarious in its own right. The thread about where do ethnic minorities holiday in the uk would give a different answer to this. I guess everyone is tolerant, right? Well, that's the whole point. Tolerant!
Their adoption of the depressing ‘stay in your lane’ ideology, where any white who gets too into anti-racism can expect to be accused of ‘whitesplaining’ how to tackle privilege, reveals their instinct for segregation, of the moral if not physical variety. Tell a woman this on the feminist board and lets see the response.
it was about knowing and understanding rather than talking bollocks like the article just did.
It's not just about whitesplaning now is it? Trying to tell someone how they feel and how they should solve their issue is stupid and racist at best. If it's not privilege, those people who need your help would not be asking for your voice instead of theirs! It then turns into "White saviour complex"
She says ‘you need to recognise that there is such a thing as white privilege and you can be homeless and still have white privilege, because you can still have a better chance of getting out of homelessness than a person of colour in the same position’. Isn’t there something ugly, not to mention gauche, about a solidly middle-class, well-connected media darling telling the starving, bedraggled man under a bridge that he’s privileged? Scratch that: this isn’t ugly, it’s reprehensible. Mmm🤔 I have come cross a study before where it said that, if you were a homeless white person, you were more likely to be given money compared to a black homeless person. (I think the research was done in America.) you would think all homeless people are equal.
Don't even get me started on begpacking along side homeless people in poorer countries in Asia. Those who beg to survive in those places compared to travellers. Actually, that article is pissing me off even more because people are willing being obtuse.