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The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks - Hysterical White Middle Class BLM Activism
June 23, 2020 at 12:44 pm
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Most of the people I know who've got all "up in arms" along with recent BLM protests are white middle class people who, to the best of my knowledge, have NO close BAME friends/lovers/acquaintances. Of course familiarity breeds feeling comfortable with that which (largely appears) different, whereas distance and ignorance breeds...fear? Insecurity? Mistrust? Racism?
Then white mono-culture booky thinks: "There's all this stuff in the media about how society is systematically racist, but I'm part of the white middle class majority...they mean me! They think I'm racist!! I must show the world I'm not a racist quicksharp, especially as I'm also quite insecure I might be a bit racist actually!! BLM! BLM!" etc.
Embarrassing as hell and sad as fuck really but there we have it. I mean, as if people have only just realised since mid 2020 that there's SOME racism left in society, and that police brutality exists, and that it need be confronted and defeated wherever it is found.
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RE: The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks - Hysterical White Middle Class BLM Activism
June 23, 2020 at 12:53 pm
In mere reality that's the complex that white grievance runs on. Noticing that our system is plagued by systemic racism, the white aggrieved fear and are made to believe that they themselves are being accused of personal antipathies.
The irony, is that they react to this instigated fear by manifesting personal antipathies.
I'm a white(lol) booky middle class type. I don't suffer from those insecurities. Do you?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks - Hysterical White Middle Class BLM Activism
June 23, 2020 at 1:36 pm
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(June 23, 2020 at 12:53 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: ...plagued by systemic racism...
Look, I'm not saying things aren't more racist in the states than the UK, but...really?! It's THAT widespread, powerful and pernicious is it?! The lady doth protest too much, methinks, by the power of Barack Obama.
ETA: Global warming? Now there's an existential threat.
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RE: The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks - Hysterical White Middle Class BLM Activism
June 23, 2020 at 1:47 pm
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Yes. It is. On both counts.
...and now you're bitching..to me...about barack obama, like a common drich. What the fuck man? I've made my opinion of our last president as clear as I've made my opinion of our current president. He was The Deporter in Chief. A Drone Warlord. Socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor. He actively made himself marketable to the forces which maintain systemic oppression in the us, both at home and abroad. There was no other route to the whitehouse for him, and he's since opined that he might have pushed too hard, to soon, too fast. That, literally, america was not ready for a black president, even one that minimized his blackness for professional expediency. The most powerful black man in the history of the united states still had to tap dance for whitey.
So...when we two adults speak, we can dispense with that nonsense in future, can we not?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks - Hysterical White Middle Class BLM Activism
June 23, 2020 at 1:57 pm
I only mentioned Barack Obama because his election was a TRIUMPH against racism, I remember living and breathing that beautiful symbolic victory when it happened at the time in the UK, celebrating wildly with friends because of that element, and he was elected for a second term too! I know he wasn't perfect, very far from it in several ways even, but Obamacare was a good step and, well, he didn't have a huge majority etc...America ain't all racist, far from it, read me there at least.
I've had three beers and am exiting the forum for today. We normally get on pretty well I think TGN so I'ma step back and sober up as don't want v bad blood with you really. It's an emotive topic. Peace.
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RE: The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks - Hysterical White Middle Class BLM Activism
June 23, 2020 at 1:59 pm
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No, it wasn't, but right wing nutters have been declaring racism dead ever since he won. Hitlery struck again on that one.
You're still trying to defend individual americans from accusations of racism, up above - but that is, as I just got through explaining, the propaganda of right wing nutters. The majority of americans harbor no individual antipathy, even if the majority of americans have been noted to express apathy which effects the same outcomes with less effort. Antipathy may have been required to form these usurious systems, but apathy is all that's required to maintain them.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks - Hysterical White Middle Class BLM Activism
June 23, 2020 at 2:08 pm
(June 23, 2020 at 1:36 pm)Editz Wrote: (June 23, 2020 at 12:53 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: ...plagued by systemic racism...
but...really?! It's THAT widespread, powerful and pernicious is it?!
Yes. Yes, it is.
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RE: The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks - Hysterical White Middle Class BLM Activism
June 23, 2020 at 2:09 pm
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Could you please describe some of these "usurious (built in?) systems" TGN? Because I'd personally have imagined such entities would be illegal in modern America. :glug glug - I lied it would seem:
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RE: The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks - Hysterical White Middle Class BLM Activism
June 23, 2020 at 2:10 pm
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They are illegal in america....but that doesn't matter much when the government does it, as these past four years might help to explain.
Our government won't stop doing it until it becomes a political liability, rather than a wedge that can drive enthusiastic supporters to the polls, while benefitting the donor class.
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RE: The Lady Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks - Hysterical White Middle Class BLM Activism
June 23, 2020 at 2:34 pm
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Not seeing any "descriptions" as requested....are you sure you're not imagining these racist plague "systems" TGN?
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