I've got your 'white fragility' right here, my brother

Jeff Goldstein Substack ^ | 24 May 2023 | Jeff Goldstein

[Rummyfan]

Faux white guilt has led to real black complicity in the deterioration of US race relations.

Covington Catholic High School’s Nick Sandmann never tried to stare down a phony Native American activist. Smugly or otherwise. And we all should have known it.

Morgan Bettinger never threatened to run over BLM protesters, nor did she make any of the supposedly racist remarks Zyahna Bryant claimed she did. Bryant — a “social justice” activist and Marxian race hustler — can perhaps be trusted to review a new Applebee’s dessert pie, but on all other subjects, the wise move would be to adopt a skeptical pose when engaging with her, if not simply dismiss out of hand anything spilling from her mouth save maybe a tasty fruit filling.

Michael Brown never said “hands up, don’t shoot!” Jacob Blake is not a hero or a civil rights icon — nor should be George Floyd or Trayvon Martin.

Christian Cooper did indeed threaten to take Amy Cooper’s dog. Justin Neely was a crazed homeless man and career criminal who absolutely threatened people on a subway train. Daniel Penny has never been a white supremacist.

Time and time again, the left creates its own mythology, then repeats it until the rest of us just kind of accept it as at least somewhat fairly described. And that’s a fatal mistake, both intellectually and practically.

[Rummyfan]

Always remind them that they don’t hold the intellectual or moral high ground. Garbage people never do, and the left is garbage.

[griswold3]

Most excellent!
A narrative built on lies will crumble. It’s time people quit the rapid response until the whole story comes out!
Also, whenever the word “systemic” is uttered the following statements are null and void.

[Guenevere]

Indeed!

[Will88]

Michael Brown never said “hands up, don’t shoot!”

The thing I always remember about Michael Brown is that early in his encounter with the cop, he fought with the cop and tried to take that cop's gun. When a suspects tries to take a cop's gun and then continues to threaten and attack him, the suspect has given the cop full justification to use his weapon to defend himself.

All these "martyrs" in one way or another were resisting arrest, or fighting with a cop.

[rlmorel]

BLM it a typical example of what the Left is.

It was built on a foundation of lies. Blacks weren’t being systematically systematically hunted down by whites in general, or police in particular for doing nothing at all.

BLM is a massive grifting and shakedown operation.

[usconservative]

Because what this is — and all this is — is a black racist using neo-Marxist Theory to tear down the dominant culture and assert his own power and privilege, relying on the fears of some whites — and the guilt of other, weaker whites — to grab that foothold, and the privilege that comes with it.

A succinct, brutal and accurate take-down. All the way through the entire article. Well worth the read.

[nicollo]

A narrative built on lies will crumble.

Most people do not admit they've been wrong. Instead, they cling emotionally to the lie while justifying it intellectually by casting blame on others, then let it settle as a vague memory as the next outrage built upon the same biases takes over.

[griswold3]

Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.” ― Plato, The Allegory of the Cave
We should be teaching the Classics. But then that would be White Supremacy.