LogFAQs > #914197517

Black people don't feel like their side isn't listened to. Black people feel like they are not listened to as individuals. I mean, a protest group based on the notion of protesting police brutality was not listened to because it had a name that made people feel things. A guy can't take a knee without losing his job and getting treated like a whipping boy. A fucking pro athlete protested and it got received so ridiculously. It fucking made white people uncomfortable to see a professional athlete protest over race issues.

Some white people feel like their whiteness is under attack. Black people's identity has been under attack for a fucking 400 year long campaign in this country. It's ridiculous that this is a literal primal tribalistic thing and it's maddening that people always use black people as the de facto opposite for white people. The minority identity is always black people. It was make sense that the de facto opposite for black people would be white people because white people are the majority and black people are a minority. But that's the thing. White people's race isn't why they're the opposite, it's because they're the majority. ..

Frankly, white people think white people are under attack because other white people told them that they're under attack and it's because of this made up idea that people think that their views on whiteness are what minorities must think of whiteness. Black people have been talking about things for years and these same people who act like they aren't listened to would respond with some shit like "duh well wudda bout black on black crime"

And I'm sorry, you wanna talk about diversity in standards? White pride is based on hating others. Minority pride is based on inclusivity and self-affirmation. The difference in standards isn't anyone's fault but history. White people can be proud of their German heritage, their French, English, etc heritage and take fucking trips to the family land out in Scotland, Ireland, Bavaria, etc etc.. WHITE PEOPLE CAN ALREADY DO THAT. But that's not good enough is it now? White people have no reason to be making this shit about themselves here. That's why this trip is a fucking thing and why you're wearing my patience real thin.
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