'white privilege' is a really big deal with some DUers, they get very offended and go on the offensive which is always very telling to me.
I was about to reply in a thread but stopped myself from using those words. I self-censored, although it was appropriate at that point of the thread.
Right now I'm seeing in that call out thread a lot of the 'don't call me racist' and 'oh, so I'm a racist, now' from the same characters over and over in several threads.
I got news for some of these folks, as a white person.
I consider myself a racist since I grew up in this society. I know it very well, and don't support the practice nor did my family. They publicly stood against it, asking people to be reasonable, telling them ot not be afraid, to be logical, not listen to the voices telling them to shun others or run away.
It actually worked.
But the words, the thoughts one has seen for a lifetime, the dynamic of who is to be taken seriously, who is discarded, who just 'doesn't matter,' or isn't on the radar screen in media - I could not miss it if I tried to.
It's an atmosphere, a concept, a way of looking at the world that just does not give time to the other, brushes them away.
That's what they are denying, that they had that luxury. That they could vote and disregard the poorest, the minorities, the immigrants, the tremendous burden of slavery that is not yet over with in this country.
I find their crying about wage slavery and how oppressed by the cops an insult to POC. I got into it with a white male about how Obama was supporting public worker jobs last year.
Out of the blue he said if equal opportunity meant that he would be manhandled by blacks, well to hell with that!
I didn't expect that but now I'm not quite sure who I'm talking to, as racism appears to be a taboo subject here now. The pushback appears to come from those supporting libertarian heroes and taking humbrage at negative remarks about other parties.
The Democratic Party is the most diverse one out there, when you look at the DNC last year and the voters who stood out there and voted despite the odds, it is. That's not DU right now and maybe has not been DU for a while.
Just my opinion.
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