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I have never in my life ever been prompted to apologize for being white, and am not aware of anyone in the US being asked or told to apologize for being white.
Some white people have been prompted to apologize for being racist assholes, sure, but that is a separate thing. Clarence Thomas should also apologize for being a racist asshole for his views and rulings on civil rights decisions for example.
That's the point though: they assume every white person is a racist asshole just like them, so apologizing for one is apologizing for the other. When you live the life of a white supremecist day-in, day-out, the way they do, you start to think that's just how life is. You can't see racist entitlement from the inside of the racists. It's just "the way of things."
Obligatory fuck JD Vance.
I have never in my life ever been prompted to apologize for being white, and am not aware of anyone in the US being asked or told to apologize for being white.
Same, where is this coming from? What are these people doing that they feel like they're being expected to apologize for? It's the racism isn't it?
Racism is their identity.
i think it's more that they think they're being asked to apologize for benefiting from systemic racism rather than being asked to acknowledge and correct it. if systemic racism is real then it means that all their success is tainted and fake, and since their social and economic status forms the basis of their self-identity, it reads to them as an attack on the validity of their own self-image. so, since they're racist they try to make it about their race instead of their racism.
Clarence Thomas should apologize for being white.
White dude here... Who the fuck is apologizing for being white? Why do they keep saying this and what's the point? I've never felt the need nor have I ever experienced anyone else needing to apologize for their being white or any other race. What does the right go through that make them feel like they would ever need to apologize for being white because me and all my friends are liberal and thats just not a fucking thing. Do they think it is? I have nothing but questions and none of them even make sense to ask so I can't imagine a sensible answer being given.
It's the classic "If you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression." Guys like that and who votes for him want to be pampered and advantaged always. Giving others the same chances is thus classified under the dog whistle "apologizing die being white."
We will chalk up white guys apologizing right along with all those people trying to cancel Christmas.
They can’t attack others unless they’re seen as victims first. It’s really fucking stupid, but the morons that voted for them eat it up- so, it’s effective.
Omg did you even say thank you?
I occasionally apologize for being white when I roll up my pants legs in direct sunlight, but I don't think that's what he's talking about.
No, no. I think you're on to something here. I do this too.
They want a culture war to prevent a class war.
Always.
It's the same reason Democrats harp on social issues.
Allows the ruling parties to present the appearance of working while doing jack shit for the scant four months out of the year they're actually "working".
Exactly. In my opinion there is no social justice without economic justice. The two come together.
Yup. If you are a black dude, being able to afford a lawyer is key to getting your justice. Everyone needs economic resources to become their best selves and to defend against malice.
The pure focus on social issues lets the Democratic leadership to have plausible deniability for fucking over people. Being legally LGBTQ+ doesn't matter, when you can't afford HRT, third spaces, fund LGBT media, or to afford a ring for your beloved. People can't fully express themselves in society, if they are confined to the burger flipping mines.
Actually, i've considered that economic justice automatically leads to social justice.
Consider this: In the US, lots of things are heavily looked down upon, such as having sex before marriage (if you are in the unfortunate situation to have grown up in a christian area), but if you can earn money with it (e.g. onlyfans), your parents/neighbors might let you get away with it. After all, if you're making money with it, surely you must be doing something right. Money rules, after all.
This is an example where economic prosperity actually leads to social liberty. It's messed up, but i've actually seen this example happen. It might work.
Why did I feel a need to check if this was an actual quote?
Because we do not live in a sane timeline
Every time in the last few years I thought it was a joke it ends up having even worse context than the quote by itself. I was actually wondering if this was an old quote as it seems like something he said whole campaigning last year.
"In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white supremacists anymore."
There was one word missing from the image. Fixed it.
You don't have to apologize for being white anymore!
and
Apologize to my wife you fucking racists!
Fuck this guy.
Playing the victim, I see.
I never had to apologize for being white....
Don't fall for it, friends. It's division for politics sake.
Never once in my 49 years of being white have I had to apologize for it
Yeah… the unnecessary and inhumane suffering of the white man has absolutely gone on for far too long! It’s not just that they-and-they-alone have only been allowed to have MOST of the nice things, they are activity being denied ALL of the nice things!
No more! says Vance!
White men (note the specificities here) demand and deserve to have all the things¹, all the time- and it absolutely must come at the expect of non-whites!
[¹] including couches, love seats, futons, chaise lounges, and foldaways.
i demand chesterfields! i demand camelbacks! lawsons for the lazy! english rollarms for the round! futons for the fat! loveseats for the lonely! cabrioles for me! davenports for dorks!
It's certainly the expectation of theirs to socialize all of their accomplishments as a race to the point where your rural white guy that has done nothing in his life besides goon will say he's better than a minority with a degree.
He lives in shithole, bible belt, but is quick to say africans still live in mud huts and that it's a black race problem as to why.
The meme forgot to mention tax cuts for the ultra wealthy. No republican policy is complete without those.
It's like they listen to Gob Bluth sing "It ain't eeeeeasy being white" and un-ironically agree.
Does he have to apologize for fucking that couch?
Literally just copying Jim Crow era slogans now.
That's the thing ... this is what Nazi Germany was built on ... socialism ... but socialism only for the 'in' white only group and no one else
There was no socialism at all in Nazi Germany, they just appropriated a popular word the same way the modern Nazis appropriate "freedom", "patriotism" and "Jesus".
The real socialists were the first to die when the "national socialist" party became "nazism"
modern Nazis appropriate "freedom", "patriotism" and "Jesus".
Modern as in, since the creation of the USA? Because all those things were very much part of the US "identity" since the very beginning. And Nazis were very very very fond of US way of espousing "superiority" while spewing buzzwords.
https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/discover/texas-story-project/el-paso-holocaust-influence
Nothing modern about it in the USA.