All white people are racists...or "white fragility" ??

[TheRocketSurgeon]

FUCK, I can't even express how stressed these bullshit articles make me feel.

Is white fragility going to be the new hashtag of the month?

Basically it's just one upper middle class white person who feels guilty about being white and projects it onto every white person.  What white people do is this, we go around murdering black people who are just innocently trying to express outrage about racism, it's obviously because we feel so superior because from birth we're all secretly initiated into the white people society where we're constantly told how great and superior we are.
Every week we meet up and discuss with the white queen mother how we can oppress the black people more, we all do this because white people aren't diverse, we are all privileged, not one of us is poor.
Ontop of this none of us are ever called honkey, cracker, white bastard, we never get racially abused because no other race is evil enough to be racist towards white people, white people are the inventors of racism and the only people who carry it out.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand thank you for making my point.

This kind of white privilege, ignoring the claim by building a strawman and waving off the entire issue without truly examining it, is the entire issue: "Hey, bad things happen to white people, too! Therefore no problem."

"Racism consists of ideologies and practices that seek to justify, or cause, the unequal distribution of privileges, rights, or goods amongst, or otherwise exhibit hatred or prejudice toward, different racial groups."


I highly recommend everyone read the essay "I, Racist" by John Metta. It is by no means a definitive work on the concept of white privilege (and the practice of making this concept into a strawman, by which the practicioners of that form of strawman construction ironically become the thing they are trying to argue against), but it is a good place to start.

As I tell the Christians who tell us we atheists are just making up the problems with their unexamined social/cultural dominance: "examine your privilege."