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We need to find a way to discuss racism and how it has historically undermined class solidarity without immediately triggering defensiveness in white people. They just stop listening and start accusing people of having a victim complex, so the conversation goes nowhere. The implication of that filibustering is that we need to meet them where they are if we want to be involved with leftist politics.
On the other hand, this issue is used cynically to marginalize us by identifying our politics as something inherently racist. It is always bad-faith actors who make this claim, but it is more effective than it would be if we could actually face these issues head-on.
Need a real strategy for that. I am going to read some old literature because smarter, more involved people than I have covered this ground. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Nothing I have ever tried has worked. A lot of white people have good intentions (or at least think they do) . They know that being racist is bad but have very little understanding or curiosity about the mechanisms, biases, and beliefs that ensure its propagation. Very similar to how men don't see how other men act towards women because it is often hidden from many of us until we date women and experience it firsthand. So when a video comes out of some despicable behavior, men think it is just one bad actor and not indicative of a system of oppression. Thus, we do not need to do anything - simply point out bad actions when they occur and pretend that no pattern exists.
I don't have any idea how to get through these defense mechanisms. Nothing I have tried has worked except just pretending that the left has cured racism with class politics, but that is neither true, productive or satisfying.
lol crackers talking about anyone else having a “victim complex” when they literally can’t go a single day without finding ways to pretend to be oppressed. fucking trust fund frat bros saying it’s the holocaust all over again because they saw a Palestinian flag
They are so quick to go there, too. I wish I could just ask them: when was the time that black people were "spoiled" in this country? Can we all agree it was not before the Civil Rights Act? So ignore Rodney King to George Floyd because of whatever racist reasons they come up with- was 1970 to 2016 such an amazing time for black people that it makes up for the most sadistic and cruel system of slavery that the world has ever known? For the casual, systemicremoved, imprisonment and lynching of black people that continues to this day?
Anyone who sees non-white people as human would find those implications to be intolerable, which does raise some uncomfortable possibilities.
Its like some of them have absolutely no shame. They will find us talking among ourselves here to actually be directed at them and intended to hurt their feelings because we have nothing better to do with our lives. I don't want to push white people too hard because they need to be part of the solution for progress but something has to give here.
Edit: Censoring my post because it accurately explains the horror of chattel slavery..... How do you justify that whitewashing to yourself? It really makes me sick - fuck this website too
This is a hard question. How do we teach empathy to white people?
I think the best way to combat this is to bring up white people from history who were actually based and not racist. Then explain if someone from 70 years ago during peak segregation/slavery/genocides/colonialism felt these were bad then there's no excuse now. Basically having a list of white heros(ew) for them to look up to.
They need their egos boosted a bit and can't relate that well to ethnic folk.
John Brown comes to mind.
My list is very very small at the moment. But Rachel Corrie is on it too, a modern example. Also Patrick Tilman