(August 20, 2016 at 12:14 pm)RobertE Wrote:(August 20, 2016 at 6:30 am)Thena323 Wrote: What else would someone like you say? Seriously.
I'm not surprised that you called me a racist; it's par for the course. Persons with your particular "issue" usually tend to project their shittier, less-than-stellar qualities onto others. I assume it's done in order for you to convince yourself that you're actually a great guy.
Do whatever you must to maintain that myth.
Note: Please refrain from claiming to know my thoughts regarding the individuals who you deemed fit to make your Acceptable Negro list; I'm positive that I've never mentioned any of them, anywhere, on any of these forums.
If you could bothered to entertain the possibility of me being a human being who's capable of forming my owns thoughts and opinions, you'd probably come to learn that I would actually consider the type of individual who achieves personal success and doesn't wish to care or know about the mistreatment of others to be a garden-variety asshole, and that I would regard anyone of any race or subgroup who excessively seeks to gain the acceptance of those who continually oppress/demean/dehumanize them as an "Uncle Tom".
How's that for nuance?
There are also many, many hardworking, black Americans, who are self-reliant, achieve levels of personal success and move on with their lives every day without feeling compelled to shut the fuck up and ignore injustice; I'm one of them. The fact that you insist on pressing this false dilemma in which American blacks only choose between leading life as it's portrayed in Boyz in the Hood/Straight Outta Compton OR turning a blind eye, staying forever silent, and never, ever daring to challenge racial injustice really doesn't go too far in supporting the assertion that you aren't a racist douche.
Would you like to guess why?
Five "stupid American" dollars says you can't.
Very important point indeed. Let us face it, in the United States, mistreatment is only for the minority and a specific minority. You need to realise that mistreatment of others again is something UNIQUE to the United States. If you were to come out of your bubble and look at the mistreatment of others in South America, Africa, Asia, the middle East, Australasia and Oceania, then you might actually say something along the lines like "well hey, I didn't realise that problems exist outside of the United States." Again, I say to you that you are culturally ignorant of other people that exist in the world today apart from two races; black and white.
No bubble here, RobertE.
I'm aware that injustice and oppression occurs across the globe, affecting countless people of all races, from various walks of life; No one here's suggested otherwise. Surely, you can't be so dense as to believe that merely discussing a specific issue necessitates that one abandon all interest and/or concern involving anyone or anything else in existence.
The premise of the discussion within this thread surrounds BLM demonstrations in the US. This whole 'staying on topic=cultural ignorance' bit is just a diversion you invented, because when it comes to the particulars surrounding the actual thread topic you don't know what the f*ck you're talking about...you just know you don't like it.
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