(February 24, 2021 at 8:37 am)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: If anything, I need to try to be more "white", not less "white". I need to be more successful like other whites, more responsible, more confident, more innovative. Whites invented airplanes and took man to the moon. Whites were the first to end slavery and sacrificed their lives to free the slaves. Whites are a beautiful people.
You can make any race look like shit if all you focus on are the negatives. Yeah, whites have done some not nice things, and whites in power are still doing some not nice things, but anyone in power would do not nice things. Power corrupts. That's not a white people thing. It's a power thing.
'It's ok to be white' is seen as hate speech but we have people in this very thread arguing that Robin DiAngelo is just telling the hard truth like it needs to be told. Stop being white, because it's not ok to be white.
The clear implication is that you think white people are more responsible, confident and innovative than non-white people.
The notion that white people should somehow be lauded for ending slavery is like thanking a man for handing you a bandage after he stabs you.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
