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God help the mixed race people who have it from both the left and right...

ttt0 6y ago
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9352639/Bi-racial-high-school-senior-looks-white-failed-refusing-confess-white-dominance.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9352639/Bi-racial-h...
runarberg 6y ago
The left does not hate white people. It is reactionary rhetoric that is trying to raise a false equivalence. The left hates white supremacy and white privilege. If you are a white person that basks in your privilege, the left doesn’t hate you because of the color of your skin, but because of how you act as a result of it.
- throwaway53453 6y ago
  There's no such thing as white privilege. Only socioeconomic privilege.
- leetcrew 6y ago
  and people have explained this to me while drinking out of a mug that says "white tears". it's hard not to take that as a motte-and-bailey.
- cassalian 6y ago
  There are people on the left that assume that if you have white skin, then you must act a certain way, and that way of acting is wrong. This is based solely on the person's race, no individual characteristics need be considered. If you disagree, then please explain what happened here with coke: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/366132 https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/366132 "Coca-Cola Asks Its Workers to Be 'Less White' to Fight Racism"
  - runarberg 6y ago
    Which people on the left? Coca-Cola is very much a capitalist institution and you have to stretch real hard to think of them as left-wing.
    - cassalian 6y ago
      edit: Misread the article and grabbed the first name I saw. This edit fixes the reference: "The seminar entitled 'Facing Racism' , given by Robin DiAngelo , was presented through LinkedIn Education publicly, although not free of charge. The company admitted that, in effect, it invited its workers to take the course, but they clarify that it was not mandator" I would assume that Robin DiAngelo would be on the left.
      - runarberg 6y ago
        Five minutes of digging and I found out that this news article is actually just reporting on a tweet[1] by #DrKarlynB[2] which I found out is an organizational psychologists who hates critical race theory. Of her retweets she primarily retweets republicans, and the comment section of her tweets often contains pro-trump rhetoric. For all I know the slides she presents from Robin DiAngelo’s lecture were taken out of context. I think this is a pretty poor example. Can you do better? 1: https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB/status/1362774562769879044 https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB/status/1362774562769879044 2: https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB
        cassalian 6y ago
        The coco-cola incident made national news, I imagine there are better articles out there; I simply grabbed the first one on google - I should have sought out a better one to link to. However, from the article, you can see several of the slides that are presented. I find it hard to believe that there's some other context than race being referred to in these slides. Do you have reason to believe that the "white" in the slides is referring to something other than race? And if not, could you provide a possible greater context that doesn't place these slides under the guise of making broad generalizations about a group of people based on their identity? I am trying to think of one myself; however, I am failing to do so. Here's a more bland article on the incident: https://www.fox5dc.com/news/coca-cola-staff-told-in-online-training-seminar-try-to-be-less-white https://www.fox5dc.com/news/coca-cola-staff-told-in-online-t...
- at_a_remove 6y ago
  Those Coke indoctrination slides say "Try to be less white." Not "Try not to be a white supremacist," but just ... being less white. The sign "It's OK to be white" ought to have zero reaction if what you said is true, but somehow it causes rather a lot of reaction. The "privilege" concept is original sin, and you can't even be absolved of it.
- ttt0 6y ago
  Every white person has a white privilege and thus is racist and benefits from white supremacy. Same difference. The left doesn't hate white people, they just hate 90% of them. Colorblindness (aka. not being racist by the old definition) is considered white supremacy. "There's only one human race" is white supremacy. "All Lives Matter" is white supremacy. "Cultural appropriation" is white supremacy. Being an "ally" is white supremacy. Meritocracy is white supremacy. Celebrating Columbus Day is white supremacy. Being attracted to people of your own race is white supremacy. Questioning the white privilege theory in the first place is white supremacy. ...and many more. source: https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1267529522041282563 https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1267529522041282563

ttt0 6y ago

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9352639/Bi-racial-high-school-senior-looks-white-failed-refusing-confess-white-dominance.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9352639/Bi-racial-h...

runarberg 6y ago

The left does not hate white people. It is reactionary rhetoric that is trying to raise a false equivalence. The left hates white supremacy and white privilege. If you are a white person that basks in your privilege, the left doesn’t hate you because of the color of your skin, but because of how you act as a result of it.

throwaway53453 6y ago
There's no such thing as white privilege. Only socioeconomic privilege.
leetcrew 6y ago
and people have explained this to me while drinking out of a mug that says "white tears". it's hard not to take that as a motte-and-bailey.
cassalian 6y ago
There are people on the left that assume that if you have white skin, then you must act a certain way, and that way of acting is wrong. This is based solely on the person's race, no individual characteristics need be considered. If you disagree, then please explain what happened here with coke: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/366132 https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/366132 "Coca-Cola Asks Its Workers to Be 'Less White' to Fight Racism"
- runarberg 6y ago
  Which people on the left? Coca-Cola is very much a capitalist institution and you have to stretch real hard to think of them as left-wing.
  - cassalian 6y ago
    edit: Misread the article and grabbed the first name I saw. This edit fixes the reference: "The seminar entitled 'Facing Racism' , given by Robin DiAngelo , was presented through LinkedIn Education publicly, although not free of charge. The company admitted that, in effect, it invited its workers to take the course, but they clarify that it was not mandator" I would assume that Robin DiAngelo would be on the left.
    - runarberg 6y ago
      Five minutes of digging and I found out that this news article is actually just reporting on a tweet[1] by #DrKarlynB[2] which I found out is an organizational psychologists who hates critical race theory. Of her retweets she primarily retweets republicans, and the comment section of her tweets often contains pro-trump rhetoric. For all I know the slides she presents from Robin DiAngelo’s lecture were taken out of context. I think this is a pretty poor example. Can you do better? 1: https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB/status/1362774562769879044 https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB/status/1362774562769879044 2: https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB
      - cassalian 6y ago
        The coco-cola incident made national news, I imagine there are better articles out there; I simply grabbed the first one on google - I should have sought out a better one to link to. However, from the article, you can see several of the slides that are presented. I find it hard to believe that there's some other context than race being referred to in these slides. Do you have reason to believe that the "white" in the slides is referring to something other than race? And if not, could you provide a possible greater context that doesn't place these slides under the guise of making broad generalizations about a group of people based on their identity? I am trying to think of one myself; however, I am failing to do so. Here's a more bland article on the incident: https://www.fox5dc.com/news/coca-cola-staff-told-in-online-training-seminar-try-to-be-less-white https://www.fox5dc.com/news/coca-cola-staff-told-in-online-t...
at_a_remove 6y ago
Those Coke indoctrination slides say "Try to be less white." Not "Try not to be a white supremacist," but just ... being less white. The sign "It's OK to be white" ought to have zero reaction if what you said is true, but somehow it causes rather a lot of reaction. The "privilege" concept is original sin, and you can't even be absolved of it.
ttt0 6y ago
Every white person has a white privilege and thus is racist and benefits from white supremacy. Same difference. The left doesn't hate white people, they just hate 90% of them. Colorblindness (aka. not being racist by the old definition) is considered white supremacy. "There's only one human race" is white supremacy. "All Lives Matter" is white supremacy. "Cultural appropriation" is white supremacy. Being an "ally" is white supremacy. Meritocracy is white supremacy. Celebrating Columbus Day is white supremacy. Being attracted to people of your own race is white supremacy. Questioning the white privilege theory in the first place is white supremacy. ...and many more. source: https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1267529522041282563 https://twitter.com/CoralineAda/status/1267529522041282563