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Old 11-14-2018, 02:03 PM   #1163
ISiddiqui
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Originally Posted by molson View Post
But there's only certain kinds of racism that seem to "count". I think that's where it gets frustrating and exhausting for people. White people putting themselves on a pedestal and recognizing "other" white people as the real problem. They're really good at pointing out and accusing certain groups of being racists - gun owners, police, prosecutors, religious people, people who live in rural areas, conservatives. But we know that racial discrimination permeates many other parts of society in America. The numbers bear that out across almost all parts of American life. And yet liberal white people with good jobs, nice houses, kids in private schools, etc, somehow don't see themselves as part of the problem but are instead in a position to be racial patriots and judge white people whom they deem to be inferior.

Only if you look at it as white liberals putting themselves on a pedestal, which btw is one way white conservatives can put themselves on a pedestal, by decrying calls for change as "virtue signaling" and being dismissive of those who do it. There are quite a bit of people of color who are decrying these things. A lot of this conversation happened when black folks started marching after police shootings. A lot of this conversation about racism and the NRA started when black folks, said HEY, where are they when Philando Castile gets shot? Some white folks then said, hey let's listen to our black brothers and sisters and call this shit out. Not that people of color don't point towards the safe white moderate - Dr. King called them out in the 60s. But it seems like talking about it like white liberals putting themselves on a pedestal is another way to simply pooh-pooh what is being uncovered, especially when a lot of these white folks have the trust of black people who are agitating for reforms.
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