Daily Murf: its-life-and-life-only: brazenbitch: I am done with white peopleI…
I am done with white people
I have given you all the damn tools you need to not be a racist,ignorant, privilege denying fuckers, and you STILL manage to do exactly that
You are NOT Colored Blind
You ARE a racist douchebag
I hope that the…
“Marginalised races shouldn’t have to make room for the odd non-racist white person”
Of course they shouldn’t have to. I Never asked them to. But what constitutes someone’s right not to have to “make room” for someone? Is it allowing them to perpetuate the notion that all white people are horrible racist people? No, it’s not. What they said was slanderous and a total lie.
(I suppose my answer to the next part would also be relevant here.)
“it’s understandable to have an instant mistrust towards most white people considering the way systems of power and oppression work.”
Again, whilst this doesn’t seem a rational response to me, it is a perfect valid one and I respect that this is how some people react. But it is irrelevant in considerations of the entitlements one has to make certain empirical claims about an entire subsection of humanity. If I lived in the jungle I might take to hating all snakes because one of them bit me and gave me a god-awful poisonous disease. In this instance it is still fallacious and unreasonable to conclude that all snake are poisonous wretches all out to get me; I’ve not met every single snake in the jungle, I’ve met one (or a handful) and so have absolutely no basis for the derivation of such a conclusion. (Chose this example because it’s is verifiably the case that not all snakes are poisonous and/or agressive which enhances the analogy).
“For many black etc people, even being around white people induces feelings of unsafety in relation to their mental and physical well-being.”
Again, this has no bearing on empirical claims. This reframes the discussion.
“Also I think they meant colored blind as in, the people who say…”
Google failed to give me any other definition so I ran with the one I knew and understood.
See, I always figured if privileged people really cared about not being racist, they’d accept non-privileged peoples sentiments that are reflections of their anger at being oppressed and treated like shit every day of their lives. To you that might be a “slanderous lie” but to this person it’s one sentence of anger in response to the non-stop oppressive treatment they receive. So what if they made a generalisation? What’s that going to do to us as white people systematically? Hurt our feelings at worst? Remind us that white people are privileged and generally in society erase, abuse, hurt and murder non-white people? And so what if it’s irrational? I know and like you very much Jacob but you’re quite fortunate in that you have all (I think!) privileges when it comes to systematic oppression (you’re white/cis/male/hetero/middle class/able-bodied), so perhaps you won’t see why you pointing out rationality/irrationality is pointless. Irrationality is valid yes, but it’s also unavoidable and it is an essential part of fighting back against oppression. Being marginalised on a day to day basis creates masses of anger and for you as a white person to call out a marginalised person’s view on racism because it doesn’t fit what makes you, as a privileged person, comfortable is ridiculous.
And that snake comparison is so far off. It’s not about one or two dangerous beings forcing horrible things on non-white people. It’s not about making judgements based on who they’ve met. It’s about millions of people across the entire scope of history fixing up and sustaining systems that constantly keep them right down and keep them unsafe and at risk and hated. And it’s about making very rational conclusions on the likelihood of the white people they do and don’t (hello white people in the news/media/positions of power) meet perpetuating those systems. When you are marginalised on the basis of race/gender/sexual orientation etc daily you do not always have the choice of giving somebody a chance to not be a douchebag because that might put your mental health, physical health or perhaps even your life in immediate danger.
Using empiricism to try and make your point valid is extremely shitty and is failing because using theories like that are useless when you actually look into the reality of racism and its effects. You completely undermined the point about the reality of non-white people feeling unsafe on a daily basis. So I guess you’re not willing to understand that reality.
My general point really is that if a non-white person voices an opinion on the racism that marginalises them and you as a white person are more concerned about your feelings on the matter, then you’re probably doing anti-racism wrong. Not everything has to be about us and how we feel as white people, especially not in issues of race.
