(September 15, 2015 at 3:40 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(September 15, 2015 at 12:13 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Lol at all the butthurt over minorities asking white people to check their privelage.
The butthurt is when people like you invalidate and dismiss the opinions of people like me because of their race. You are basically saying white people are excluded from serious two-way discussions about racial identity simply because they are white. It's condescending.
You can see my picture in my avatar-photo space. I'm white. I'm half Cajun (French Acadian), on my mother's side, and my father's parents are an immigrant from Germany and a son of immigrants from England. You basically cannot get "whiter" than I am.
And yet, my grandmother came here from Germany because her parents were fleeing the Nazi suppression of intellectuals/academics, and they had nothing but their degrees. (That's a serious "but", of course... one of the privileges with which they began life in the USA.) My Cajun family came here as political refugees after the Seven Years' war turned into a literal genocide against our people (because we were Catholic and French, both anathema to the British-American colonists, and then we refused to fight for England after they conquered our pacifist colony in what is now Nova Scotia, then called l'Acadie, or Acadia in English). We were scattered to the winds, those of us who survived, and we settled on the most inhospitable land in the United States, specifically because no one else wanted to live there. It's how our modern culture emerged as the "swamp people". To this day, with the exception of those who work in the oil fields, we are one of the poorest overall ethnicities in the United States. But despite all that, because I am white and in America, I have privileges that helped me rise, and gave me advantage in numerous ways.
So, then, all that said... what "people like you" and "people like me" are you talking about?
Who better than your fellow white guys to say, "Whoa, brother, perhaps we have been going about this the wrong way and looking at this from an angle that ignores the perspective of others, to our and to their detriments."?
You realize, of course, that the fact that you assumed the people criticizing the white race were not white makes you a racist, right?
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
