RE: Harriett Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill
January 27, 2021 at 1:50 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2021 at 2:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 27, 2021 at 1:17 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: ignorant, hiding his power level, or if he’s just so addicted to playing Devil’s AdvocateStepping back, as a comment on the phenomena rather than an individual - I don't think that it matters, no more so than their style matters.
The arguments may not reflect reality, the arguer may be incompetent, but they are consistently and specifically presenting a worldview in which people are devalued and disenfranchised for their whiteness.
Ironically, I suspect that our tendency to call them ignorant or assume that they're edgelords is a way to avoid the uncomfortable reality of what they keep insisting to be true of themselves, and keep insisting that everyone else is lying about. Some of them might lean on those euphemizing fictions themselves. In their minds, they're simultaneously not racist -and- we all secretly agree with these racist things they've been arguing. Roll that around for a minute and you might start to wonder just what any of us would have to do before they believed that racism was involved - aside from disenfranchising and shaming and genociding the whites, obviously.
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