"If a white person said that"
We are under an extraordinary blinding spell in the West. I used to be under this spell in every way, but I can see it now because it’s broken for me. What I’d like to know is how to break it for others.
The spell is this: Bigoted, libelous, brutal, inhuman statements that would get a person expelled from society and the economy if they were uttered about women, gays, blacks, trans, or anyone but white people, are absolutely fine to utter about white people (and especially white men, or men in general).
More than fine; they are often praised.
The spell is so powerful that it has enchanted the targets of these calumnies, too. White people, white men, and straight people, too many of them, nod in agreement when their alleged essential sinfulness is discussed. I used to do so because it made me a Good Boy among the self-centered and resentful crowds I used to be a part of.
The very idea that white people, or white men, are sitting at the top of the cultural power pyramid is ludicrous. We have to get over the 1960s hangover. The Jim Crow world hasn’t existed for a long time. The pendulum has swung so far in the other direction that statements from black people that anyone would recognize as say, “blood libel,” if they were made against Jews are uttered every day with hardly a peep of protest.
Same goes for the most extreme of feminist views.
Here are two examples that speak for themselves.
The first is sitcom actress Jennifer Lewis, star on “Black-ish.”
The second is a tweet from a radical feminist Twitter account that’s well-known.
How do you think we can break this spell? For me, I had to face a personal crisis that broke me before I was able to see the world differently. Are there ways we can help other people wake up aside from that?
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The world’s few evil people aren’t nearly as dangerous as its hordes of stupid people who do their bidding.
"Gated communities". Who the hell is she talking about? Last time I checked the average white American lives paycheck to paycheck and can't afford a $500 emergency. This woman's so-called problem is with an invisible sliver of the population that may or may not actually exist. Her absurd characterization of this racist boogeyman is so obviously meant to stoke hatred and fear. I doubt any white person she has interacted with in the past 10 years has done anything but kiss her ass and extol her moral virtues. Disgraceful.