(February 24, 2021 at 12:08 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(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
I posted that to make a point. We should judge people as individuals. Not just assume that a white employee at Coca-Cola is oppressive because they're white and tell them to be less of what they are unfairly assumed to be. We shouldn't assume that someone is hard working and responsible because they are white, nor should we assume that someone is not hard working and irresponsible because they're black. Being less white doesn't mean anything because being white doesn't mean anything. We are all individuals.
The Grand Nudger rebutted me in the past by saying that no one is shitting on white people, and then he turns around here and endorses a message telling whites to be less white. I was taught by the time I was in kindergarten that judging people based on their race is wrong, and that has stuck with me through the years and will continue to. If being against racism is seen as radical, then we're living in pretty sad times.
