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> The fact that white men hold power shouldn't be worrying. We've got a few thousand years of racist history that shows us just how worried we should be about
by aioprisan 9y ago
> The fact that white men hold power shouldn't be worrying.
We've got a few thousand years of racist history that shows us just how worried we should be about mostly white men holding power vs representative populations of those leadership groups.
> What we should worry about is this fact being used as an excuse for anti-white racism and anti-male sexism, which is exactly what is happening.
This is where you lost me. Do you have any proof that this is taking place and at which rate? At which point is the discomfort of white males OK for society given the vast injustices and imbalances created to make white males more comfortable at everyone else's expense?
- TheAdamAndChe 9y ago> At which point is the discomfort of white males OK for society given the vast injustices and imbalances created to make white males more comfortable at everyone else's expense? Fighting racism with racism will earn you no friends. There is nothing that makes whites better than nonwhites, and there is nothing that makes nonwhites better than whites. Utilizing this us-vs-them mentality to suppress a group of people you don't like is exactly the kind of mentality that led to racism in the first place.
- aioprisan 9y agoHaving representative populations of leaders that understand and properly advocate for the interests of their communities is not fighting racism with racism.
- TheAdamAndChe 9y agoNo, but saying that making white people "uncomfortable" is okay _is_ fighting racism with racism, and should not be tolerated.
- electric_sheep 9y agoNo other way to say this: that's not racism. Nobody's saying it's okay to make white people uncomfortable because they are white; they're saying it's okay because some conversations that are uncomfortable are still worth having. Making the few squirm in their seats a bit for the profound good of the many is utilitarianism.