RE: All white people are racists...or "white fragility" ??
September 16, 2015 at 7:22 pm
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2015 at 7:22 pm by Regina.)
(September 16, 2015 at 6:50 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: You and Alex K are right on point. It’s possible that the difference between racist and non-racist is a matter of degree. Just like the difference between poison and medicine is a matter of quantity not substance.
Sometimes people say things and it’s hard to know how to respond. We can’t have the same response to everything that sounds like it might be racist. I was listening to this White woman talking to another White woman. I wasn’t eves dropping. I was just there. Apparently some Black guy had been fired because he did not have the proper license to do his job. When the White woman talked to him he said, “That’s easy for you to say. You’re the same color as the boss.” She got mad and told him, “Look, if you want to play the race card then you go get somebody from the NAACP and I’ll get somebody from the KKK and meet you down at the courthouse.” I wasn’t sure how to feel about this because I know this woman and she loves herself some Rhonda. I also know that this same company fired a White man who was over charging customers. Who was the racist here?
I'm just not sure how she can compare the NAACP to the KKK. The only thing they have in common is that there's not a black person in sight in either...
No Rachel, getting a fake tan and a curly weave doesn't count.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
