Originally posted by cdtm
Pr, look at this here:https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/11/12/opinions/kyle-rittenhouse-crying-ahmaud-arbery-killed-joseph/index.html
The writer is a professor with a PHD and joint professorship in civil rights and women's rights movements. He argues that Kyle and a gun represents white racist beliefs, while the way blacks with guns gets treated represents oppression.
This is an infurating argument because it sets a double standard no matter how you look at it. The argument being that whites and blacks can never be judged the same for doing the same thing.
Take riots. Black activists actually [b]justify rioting by blacks
because it is seen as a response to racism. You can loot, or burn down buildings, or even murder, and its all a cause and effect from a history caused by white racists.And my problem isn't even about fairness or double standards that I feel affects me personally, not really. I'm just wondering where the heck the dialog is, exactly? I mean, what is there to discuss? When the argument is "Everything is your fault", that isn't really leaving much room for a dialog.
And people naturally shut down when they get cornered like this. If all you get is a double finger and a "**** you" from even trying to engage, you'll either shut down or lash out. That's just human nature.
For my part, I've responded by not caring anymore. So I'm a racist, fine. I'll be a racist.
**** it. [/B]
Virtually the entire world is run by White Men. This means as the majority ruler, you have to take the s**t that comes your way with the sins of history; they keep repeating and you have to work to create a better world until it stops.
I don't believe I'm a racist either. But I know I'm a member of the least prejudiced group in the world - the White Anglo-Saxon Christian Male (who's also not fat, short or balding) and I recognize my privilege. I also don't want this privilege, because I believe in a fair & equal society and don't want it to be a lie.
That's why I stand with groups like BLM, because their gripes and beliefs are real.
And I will also criticize people like Jussie Smollett for staging a hate crime for cockamamie reasons.
It's a really simple philosophy - Do The Right Thing, as Da Mayor once put it.