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  • How Can I Cure My White Guilt?

    Dear Sugars,

    I’m riddled with shame. White shame. This isn’t helpful to me or to anyone, especially people of color. I feel like there is no “me” outside of my white/upper middle class/cisgender identity. I feel like my literal existence hurts people, like I’m always taking up space that should belong to someone else.

    I consider myself an ally. I research proper etiquette, read writers of color, vote in a way that will not harm P.O.C. (and other vulnerable people). I engage in conversations about privilege with other white people. I take courses that will further educate me. I donated to Black Lives Matter. Yet I fear that nothing is enough. Part of my fear comes from the fact that privilege is invisible to itself. What if I’m doing or saying insensitive things without realizing it?
    ...
    I don’t talk about my feelings because it’s hard to justify doing so while people of color are dying due to systemic racism and making this conversation about me would be again centering whiteness. Yet bottling it up makes me feel an existential anger that I have a hard time channeling since I don’t know my place. Instead of harnessing my privilege for greater good, I’m curled up in a ball of shame. How can I be more than my heritage?

    Whitey
    ------

    Cheryl Strayed: I think Steve’s onto something when he notes that your anxiety is acute now because the racial mix at your college is reflecting your privilege back to you, but I’ll go even further: My hunch is that you’re truly seeing it for the first time. You grew up in a neighborhood and attended schools where you were one of the relatively few whites. It’s possible your status as a situational racial minority gave you the illusion that you didn’t have much in the way of racial privilege. Now that you’re living in a community that, at 75 percent white, roughly mirrors that of the American population, you’re feeling the full force of what it means to be white in a white supremacist culture and it makes you feel uncomfortable because up until now, in some unconscious way, you’d exonerated yourself from it. You were the “good white person” because you grew up among people of color. Now you’re another white face in the crowd at your elite college, and ashamed of it.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/s...privilege.html




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    Claiming "White Privilege" is racist. It assumes whites have superior privileges to everyone else based on pigment
    That's what
    - She

    Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
    - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

    I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
    - Stephen R. Donaldson

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    • #3
      So stupid stupids don't recognize sarcasm when they see it.

      Typical liberal bull poop.


      Securely anchored to the Rock amid every storm of trial, testing or tribulation.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
        Claiming "White Privilege" is racist. It assumes whites have superior privileges to everyone else based on pigment
        Except "White Privilege" seems to be a detriment, not a benefit to liberals.

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        • #5
          You could always shill for socialism and or soros.
          sigpic

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Sparko View Post
            Dear Sugars,

            I’m riddled with shame. White shame. This isn’t helpful to me or to anyone, especially people of color. I feel like there is no “me” outside of my white/upper middle class/cisgender identity. I feel like my literal existence hurts people, like I’m always taking up space that should belong to someone else.

            I consider myself an ally. I research proper etiquette, read writers of color, vote in a way that will not harm P.O.C. (and other vulnerable people). I engage in conversations about privilege with other white people. I take courses that will further educate me. I donated to Black Lives Matter. Yet I fear that nothing is enough. Part of my fear comes from the fact that privilege is invisible to itself. What if I’m doing or saying insensitive things without realizing it?
            ...
            I don’t talk about my feelings because it’s hard to justify doing so while people of color are dying due to systemic racism and making this conversation about me would be again centering whiteness. Yet bottling it up makes me feel an existential anger that I have a hard time channeling since I don’t know my place. Instead of harnessing my privilege for greater good, I’m curled up in a ball of shame. How can I be more than my heritage?

            Whitey
            ------

            Cheryl Strayed: I think Steve’s onto something when he notes that your anxiety is acute now because the racial mix at your college is reflecting your privilege back to you, but I’ll go even further: My hunch is that you’re truly seeing it for the first time. You grew up in a neighborhood and attended schools where you were one of the relatively few whites. It’s possible your status as a situational racial minority gave you the illusion that you didn’t have much in the way of racial privilege. Now that you’re living in a community that, at 75 percent white, roughly mirrors that of the American population, you’re feeling the full force of what it means to be white in a white supremacist culture and it makes you feel uncomfortable because up until now, in some unconscious way, you’d exonerated yourself from it. You were the “good white person” because you grew up among people of color. Now you’re another white face in the crowd at your elite college, and ashamed of it.

            https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/s...privilege.html


            Please tell me this is satire.
            Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
            But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
            Than a fool in the eyes of God


            From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
              Please tell me this is satire.
              Doesn't seem to be.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                Doesn't seem to be.
                I have to wonder if the initial letter is a carefully crafted troll, and the NYT took the bait, hook, line, and sinker.
                Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                Than a fool in the eyes of God


                From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                • #9
                  Spend a day Black Like Me

                  The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by mossrose View Post
                    So stupid stupids don't recognize sarcasm when they see it.

                    Typical liberal bull poop.
                    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                      I have to wonder if the initial letter is a carefully crafted troll, and the NYT took the bait, hook, line, and sinker.

                      That's exactly what I thought.


                      Securely anchored to the Rock amid every storm of trial, testing or tribulation.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post



                        Securely anchored to the Rock amid every storm of trial, testing or tribulation.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                          Please tell me this is satire.
                          Remember your rule that it is impossible to tell the difference between a liberal and a poseur?

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                            Remember your rule that it is impossible to tell the difference between a liberal and a poseur?
                            Indeed.
                            Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                            But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                            Than a fool in the eyes of God


                            From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                              Indeed.
                              If I were trolling the NYT I would probably write something like that letter, but then so would a guilt-ridden while liberal millennial.

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