It's interesting to me, that if I were to say, in response to that comment; "Have you lived your life as a minority in the US or elsewhere? Do you know what it is to walk down the street while black or brown (or wearing a lamda/rainbow flag, or using an assistive device or assitive animal)? No, I don't think so, I don't see that truth in your eyes."
I would be told I can't expect all anti-racists (or social justice activists) to be minorities, that some white people have good hearts and while they may not know the experience personally they want to handle prevent it from happening.
And yet, only people who show up to a march, are somehow truly against racism and have NOTHING TO LEARN ABOUT THEIR OWN PRIVILEGE or the OPPRESSION OF OTHERS.
Oh circular privilege logic - it's always going to be 'I'm better than you because I did xyz and I count xyz as more important than you'.
Also it is very interesting to me, and a sign of that continued navel gazing selfishness that this is also part of that statement:
"against racism since childhood in the '60s (when people got killed for it)"
Because 2009 and 2010 haven't had racial hate crimes, oh no. Certainly no one just died in Arizona self for being a damn Mexican who wouldn't go back to Mexico. A little girl (Aiyana Jones) didn't just die because cops didn't blink at potentially harming black children. No, people died before and in the 60's because of racism; it was BACK IN THE DAY, people died for it.
Only then.
Ugh, yeah, I'm irked as hell that there are people who subscribe to that particular aversive-think. You made valid points fiction_theory, but before I could even look at the ablism in that statement, everything else jumped out at me.
The Ever Moving Goalposts of Self Righteous Selfishness
I would be told I can't expect all anti-racists (or social justice activists) to be minorities, that some white people have good hearts and while they may not know the experience personally they want to handle prevent it from happening.
And yet, only people who show up to a march, are somehow truly against racism and have NOTHING TO LEARN ABOUT THEIR OWN PRIVILEGE or the OPPRESSION OF OTHERS.
Oh circular privilege logic - it's always going to be 'I'm better than you because I did xyz and I count xyz as more important than you'.
Also it is very interesting to me, and a sign of that continued navel gazing selfishness that this is also part of that statement:
"against racism since childhood in the '60s (when people got killed for it)"
Because 2009 and 2010 haven't had racial hate crimes, oh no. Certainly no one just died in Arizona self for being a damn Mexican who wouldn't go back to Mexico. A little girl (Aiyana Jones) didn't just die because cops didn't blink at potentially harming black children. No, people died before and in the 60's because of racism; it was BACK IN THE DAY, people died for it.
Only then.
Ugh, yeah, I'm irked as hell that there are people who subscribe to that particular aversive-think. You made valid points