Originally posted by RobtardLol. Yea... well that's sort of common when referring to any group of people. But the question was not are we a group... but do we have a culture. For instance.... when referring to the the audience at a sports event which includes myself and 70,000 other people, I might similarly say "we." Or, if I decided to give a ride to a homeless person, I might say "we were driving down the road.." I assure you the implications of that pronoun are exactly as straight forward as they sound, and don't at all undermine my point.
But you just said "we" :/
Originally posted by socool8520
Well with the people nowadays trying to make White people feel bad about things that they never did, you can see why some would be a bit sensitive no?
That is 99.99% of the time imagined though
eg Someone wanting a statue of a former slave owner and traitor removed from public or government property doesn't mean White people living today are being personally attacked, even though certain cracker-types like to make it as the narrative
Originally posted by RobtardThe statue thing isn't an attack on white people though, just a small select group of white people, most of which couldn't care less about the statue.
That is 99.99% of the time imagined thougheg Someone wanting a statue of a former slave owner and traitor removed from public or government property doesn't mean White people living today are being personally attacked, even though certain cracker-types like to make it as the narrative
There are plenty of other things going on that are targeted at white people generally, as a broad concept, which is daft as it is, because 'white people' is such a broad term. Americans on the left seem happy to blame white people as a whole for all kinds of things despite 'white people as a whole' not really being a thing. A white redneck in the US has nothing to do with a white aristocrat from a European country, for example. Yes apparently in a lot of cases, white people should apparently feel bad for their supposed 'lineage' of oppression. Doesn't do shit all for race relations imo.
Stuff like this:
I know it's Buzzfeed, and **** that place, but it shows how normalised it is to place one random white person as a spokesman for all white people, as if one opinion somehow sums up an entire group of people who happen to have the same skin tone.
Originally posted by Scribble
The statue thing isn't an attack on white people though, just a small select group of white people, most of which couldn't care less about the statue.There are plenty of other things going on that are targeted at white people generally, as a broad concept, which is daft as it is, because 'white people' is such a broad term. Americans on the left seem happy to blame white people as a whole for all kinds of things despite 'white people as a whole' not really being a thing. A white redneck in the US has nothing to do with a white aristocrat from a European country, for example. Yes apparently in a lot of cases, white people should apparently feel bad for their supposed 'lineage' of oppression. Doesn't do shit all for race relations imo.
Stuff like this:
I know it's Buzzfeed, and **** that place, but it shows how normalised it is to place one random white person as a spokesman for all white people, as if one opinion somehow sums up an entire group of people who happen to have the same skin tone.
At this point it really doesn't matter. White people get lumped together and blamed for atrocities that happened before their time. If they don't feel guilty about it, they are racist. It's stupid, and I agree that it does nothing for race relations.
What i find crazy is these are the same people who say we should not judge all of the muslim world of the actions of the radicals. They can't even see the hypocrisy