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In reply to the discussion: Is there anyway now that we can be considered not racist? [View all]AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)There was nothing to learn from, I'm afraid. This was a hit piece on white liberals for not being "perfect" or compliant enough for Mr. De Vega's liking, and nothing more(and furthermore, *at least most* of his allegations are either inaccurate to varying degrees, or just plain wrong.).....and I can bet my bottom dollar that if this man were white, and bashing black liberals, as a collective whole, for not being up to his personal standards, the outcry would be rather more publicized, and he would likely have been banned from Daily Kos already(and rightly so!).....and I would be just as critical of him in that hypothetical situation, as I am here.
And, if anything at all, it's those few folks like Mr. De Vega, and TaNehisi Coates, and Brittney Cooper, etc., who are being condescending( towards the *rest of us*, whether we happen to be "white" or otherwise, because we don't measure up to what he thinks is the perfect social justice advocate, etc., because we don't share the views he does, etc., and who are trying to dictate we can say, and how we are allowed to talk, if at all, and definitely not the other way around.
So don't be hypersensitive and defensive.
No, Ken. There are plenty of valid criticisms of what he said, and how he said it.
And in case I may not have made my point perfectly clear already: in other words, generalizing and collectively slandering any group of people is never a good thing, no matter if done out of complete malice.....or just in a fit of anger, no matter how just that anger may be otherwise, in the latter case. And had Mr. De Vega not done what he did, he might have had a solid point. But whatever point he did try to make, if he ever did, was lost in the vitriol he spewed.
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