A Yale study has found that white liberals tend to dumb-down their speech when speaking with minorities, and our political class may be the worst offenders.
In her twisted thinking, she fails entirely to imagine her own racism and bigotry. “I wish I were black so that I could experience poverty and addiction.” Leave aside that she treats alcoholism apart from addiction, and the just plain bizarreness of her statement, does she really believe poverty exists only in non-white people? Does she really believe addiction only exists in non-white people? Does she believe she is immune from alcoholism because she’s white? (I wonder what her doctor thinks.)
If she really does believe those things, she is a racist and someone (NDP, no less) who, doesn’t understand poverty. However, my guess is that, if she was asked directly if she believes poverty, drug addiction, and alcoholism are troubles specifically limited to non-white people, she would be clever enough to respond, “Of course not!”
Of course she doesn’t believe that. Much as I hate tossing the term around, whether she believes what she said and spoke it believing it to be true, or whether she knows poverty and addiction are not limited to racial groups, either way, she comes up a racist.
If anything makes me see “white privileged”, it might be this. It is self-righteously donning a white robe and declaring, “I will make sure that I can never and will never be seen as ‘other’ by I ensuring someone else always wears that label.”
This really is the inevitable destination of the kind of thinking that is currently in vogue. Namely, the "oppressor/oppressed" world view. Or the "colonizer/colonized" narrative. It's been said so much, people don't even blink anymore - they just nod along and accept it as fact. It takes very little extrapolation to discover where this lands, yet it seems most people aren't even willing to do that. It is the new racism practiced by the privileged class.
These people are mentally ill. She is also guilty of the soft bigotry of low expectations for minorities.
This stuff is so mind-twisting.
In her twisted thinking, she fails entirely to imagine her own racism and bigotry. “I wish I were black so that I could experience poverty and addiction.” Leave aside that she treats alcoholism apart from addiction, and the just plain bizarreness of her statement, does she really believe poverty exists only in non-white people? Does she really believe addiction only exists in non-white people? Does she believe she is immune from alcoholism because she’s white? (I wonder what her doctor thinks.)
If she really does believe those things, she is a racist and someone (NDP, no less) who, doesn’t understand poverty. However, my guess is that, if she was asked directly if she believes poverty, drug addiction, and alcoholism are troubles specifically limited to non-white people, she would be clever enough to respond, “Of course not!”
Of course she doesn’t believe that. Much as I hate tossing the term around, whether she believes what she said and spoke it believing it to be true, or whether she knows poverty and addiction are not limited to racial groups, either way, she comes up a racist.
If anything makes me see “white privileged”, it might be this. It is self-righteously donning a white robe and declaring, “I will make sure that I can never and will never be seen as ‘other’ by I ensuring someone else always wears that label.”
This really is the inevitable destination of the kind of thinking that is currently in vogue. Namely, the "oppressor/oppressed" world view. Or the "colonizer/colonized" narrative. It's been said so much, people don't even blink anymore - they just nod along and accept it as fact. It takes very little extrapolation to discover where this lands, yet it seems most people aren't even willing to do that. It is the new racism practiced by the privileged class.