6 ms·
The author really does seem to think of black people as children who can't possibly be held accountable for anything they've done. What must it be like to be o
by Banthum 10y ago
The author really does seem to think of black people as children who can't possibly be held accountable for anything they've done.
What must it be like to be on the receiving end of such paternalism? It sounds awful. And horrifically damaging. If people tell you every day that you can't win, and you have no responsibility for bad decisions you make, how can you possibly succeed after such a psych-war campaign to make you into a control-externalizing mental infant? I'd hate my parents forever if they did this to me.
She meets her black name-sharer who reveals that she is, surprise, a single mother with three kids (who she bore very young), while the author stayed married and had kids late. News flash: Blacks who simply wait to have kids and have them when married and stay married are overwhelmingly not in poverty. Meanwhile, whites who fail to do these things are very often in poverty. No racist white person is forcing anyone to have kids in their teenage years, from multiple men, and fail to marry. These are personal decisions, and bad decisions have bad consequences for people of any race.
And then they sit around talking about "the utter ridiculousness of upper-middle-class white people". Yes, so ridiculous, not having kids out of wedlock, and forming stable social arrangements.
And "the intense differences between Brownsville and Park Slope, very different Brooklyn neighborhoods but both suffering from a severe lack of diversity.". Yes, I'm sure those white neighborhoods are really "suffering" because there are too many whites. Must be a nightmare.
She literally calls it a "version of justice" when black people give false information to police to avoid tickets for public violence: "Now I understood why the tickets were never paid: most of these Lisa Davises had, in some way, disappeared. They had given fake addresses or moved, and they were skirting the law – their own version of justice – however they could."
Yes, there is racism against blacks. No, that doesn't mean black are morally-perfect shining hearts of goodness whose every action is perfect. People are people; the way this author wipes away the individual to make everyone simply a piece of their group, the way she excuses any action from someone in a victim class, is kind of horrifying. And it is racism.
- maehwasu 10y ago"The more I listened to her story, the more I realized that, all this time, Lisa wasn’t trying to steal my identity. She was trying to find her own." Agree--the whole article has a very bizarre "I got a new pet, and sometimes she pees on the rug, but she's just a puppy!" feeling.
- lobster_johnson 10y agoNote: To "suffer from" means to be affected by, in some detrimental sense. It isn't the same as "to suffer", and the author didn't use the phrase the elicit sympathy the way you seem to interpret her. Reading between the lines, "suffering from a lack of diversity" really means that it's a monoculture, and that this is not good for the city.
- xname2 10y agoHere is how a black SJW addresses the issue: Black Single Mothers Are More Than Scapegoats http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rasheena-fountain/black-single-mothers-are-_b_9619536.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rasheena-fountain/black-single... So, basically if you think single motherhood as a phenomenon is a social problem, in her mind, you are blaming single mothers. I never understand this kind of mind-twisting.
- golergka 10y agoWhy wouldn't you blame a parent for having a child (assuming consensual sex between people who understand where babies come from) when said adult is not capable of caring for it?
- just2n 10y agoThe thing is, you should. It's regrettable that today in this "enlightened" age with such astonishing technology we refuse the agency of certain groups of people for the convenience of political narratives. This article blows my mind. At no point did she consider that these people could actually be responsible for their actions and that what was happening to her was the result of someone repeatedly violating the law and refusing to deal with the consequences. The real problem here is obviously the incredibly flawed use of name + DOB as a unique identifier, but the author doesn't focus on that and instead delivers what really feels like a racist lecture about how this entire situation is the result of some kind of systemic injustice against a whole group of people just for the color of their skin.
- Nomentatus 10y agoWhile I doubt it's quite as "black and white" as the article insists, there's no doubt about differential enforcement: "The racial disparity persists even after controlling for precinct variability and race-specific estimates of crime participation.[6][7] Research suggests that stop-and-frisk had few effects, if any, on crime in New York City.[8][9]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...
- zdean 10y ago"What must it be like to be on the receiving end of such paternalism? It sounds awful. And horrifically damaging." Is "paternalism" in this case a euphemism for centuries of slavery, legal segregation, and general racism? Because, yes, that can be horrifically damaging to people.
- valleyer 10y agoWell, no, it's not a euphemism for that, in this case.