Forgot to mention the "only white people know what democracy is, if your constitution wasn't written by white people we don't recognise you as democratic and will wage war and slander you in the media"
Ah yes, the bastion of democracy, a document written 200+ years ago by slaveholders
Oh! Oh! You forgot one: Denying the skin color/race/ethnicity of a person just because their behavior doesn't align with how you think the aforementioned race/ethnicity is supposed to behave as.
Like, I literally have brown skin, was born and raised in the global south and still within it; and yet a few weeks back some jackass here (who's since been banished thankfully) had the guts to call me a "White Western Anglo" just because I called them out on their reich-wing terminology and defended queer rights. Fucking hell.
colorblindness
Can someone please explain this to me?
probably "i don't see race, white - brown - black, they all mean the same to me" while casually ignoring the systemic issues that non-white people still go through but white people don't
I reckon it's "not being able to see color", i.e. claiming that you don't recognize the difference between people of different skin color. That can itself be a form of supremacy since it denies the lived reality of many people.
Not understanding the segregation and alienation that people of certain races experience, and assuming they have the same privileges that your class has. For example, not understanding why a black mother having to explain to her children that Starbucks coffee isn’t for them.
I kind of feel like this would almost work better as one of those iceberg charts YouTube seems to love.
It's no wonder progressives can't win unless there is somebody to hate on the other side. It's like watching a snake eat its own tail every 8 years.
"Celebration of Columbus Day" lmao 100 years ago Italians (who are the only reason we celebrate that rapist) weren't even considered white themselves.
What is "spiritual bypassing"?
Also, go ahead and call me a snowflake, because I do take issue with the "I never owned slaves" bit in the racism section. Not only I've never owned slaves personally, my ancestors were third class citizens until 1917. But fuck me for being a whitey I guess!
it's more that you're shrugging your shoulders as if you don't still benefit from being white just because you or your family didn't own slavery
the blasé not my fault, not my problem attitude
I think applying this concept universally is wrong and you raise an important point. Many Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, and Iranians may well be considered as "white" in first world concept but this does not stop "israel" bombs or bullets and it does not stop US/NATO sanctions siege.
Obviously there are white Russians and non-white Russians. But has their skin color has protected people of Donetsk Mariupol or Kherson from nazi bombs?
Yet the head of US terrorist military and general of AFRICOM are black American men and the CIA hires "latina mothers". Such organizations are responsible for mass murders of black Africans on weekly by NATO proxy death squads. I have even seen leftists truly express wrong beliefs that Palestinians are actually "oppressing" black "israelis".
I find it interesting that this chart has so little to say about global international imperialist depopulation extermination campaigns.
This tells us that imperialism is not based on race but something else. And perhaps that the exporting of NGO-ized discourses out of their first world contexts is not helpful.
White Americans and Europeans are consistently some of the most insufferable humans I have ever encountered and that is how I understand the relevance of this meme. We know that the great satan and other arrogant powers France, UK, etc continues to exploit and enslave and kill nationally oppressed people for hundreds of years inside their own borders and this is the context of chart. One day soon they too will be free of satans clutches insha'allah.
i think the implication regarding "Don't blame me, I never owned slaves!" comes moreso from the fact that descendants of white people not wanting to address that their ancestors had owned slaves and to make up for it.
Just because your ancestors had owned slaves but you don't doesn't automatically absolve you from the fact that your ancestors had caused damage to the ethnicity that white people took slaves from; and that you should address it, admit it was horrific of them to do so and to make up for it.
now, idk if your ancestors had owned slaves; but if they didn't, good on them - this doesn't apply to you specifically. but it would still be cool if you tried to make lives better for marginalized people.
Just because your ancestors had owned slaves but you don’t doesn’t automatically absolve you from the fact that your ancestors had caused damage to the ethnicity that white people took slaves from; and that you should address it, admit it was horrific of them to do so and to make up for it.
So I'm damned by the virtue of being born white? I'm not even Anglo. Pretty sure none of my ancestors ever had anything to do with anyone of African descent. Unless you count the ones that lived in USSR and through their labour helped African nations. But I've re-read your comment twice, and I guess it doesn't matter?
