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If You’re White and Have Opinions, You’re Now Guilty of ‘Whitesplaining’
HeatStreet ^ | 6/22/2017

Posted on 06/23/2017 2:02:24 AM PDT by Altura Ct.

“Mansplaining” was so 2016. Half way through 2017, the Huffington Post is peddling a new complaint to add to the American lexicon: “Whitesplaining.”

HuffPo’s “social justice blogger,” Jade Greear, explains this new offense.

“Have you ever had an experience where someone is explaining to you, in a patronizing way, something you actually already know quite a lot about?” she asks. “Possibly about your own life experiences as an African American or Latino? That is whitesplaining—to explain or comment on something in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner, from the perspective of the group one identifies with, thereby clearly exhibiting their own bias.” Greear says that while “whitesplaining” can be well-intentioned, it is inherently subjective. It perpetuates racism, she argues, precisely because “racism is not subjective.”

“My life experiences and oppression—my truth as a 19-year-old black woman—cannot be invalidated because of the inability of someone with privilege to see it,” she writes.

Greear cites a few examples of “whitesplaining,” referencing issues where she apparently feels white people have no right to weigh in. It was “not only condescending [but] particularly harmful,” she says, when TV hosts weighed in on Colin Kaepernick’s protests, or when “self-professed political pundits whitesplain[ed] why blacks should have voted for Trump.” She adds: “Whitesplaining perpetuates white privilege, which fuels racism and only serves to erode the progress we have made in the fight for racial equality in America.”

By that line of reasoning, any dispute with Greear’s opinions, which are rooted in her impenetrable personal experience, are not only illegitimate; they’re actually racist. Instead of civil discourse, she demands deference


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: whitesplaining
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1 posted on 06/23/2017 2:02:24 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

There is no need to talk to these bigots. Just defeat them in every election. Maybe someday they will grow up and join the discussion as adults.


2 posted on 06/23/2017 2:09:21 AM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Altura Ct.

Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.


3 posted on 06/23/2017 2:17:31 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Altura Ct.

What she’s describing is what the world looks like from the point of view of a sociopath. Only their own perceptions and understanding matter, and anything that hits them crosswise is an affront. This is a textbook “abusive sociopath” mentality.

Taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture, this is an 18 year old spewing religiously a doctrine she could not possibly have invented on her own. So I have to ask: who brainwashed and programmed this girl? Are these writings a cry for help?


4 posted on 06/23/2017 2:18:04 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: Altura Ct.

One could best describe Ms Greear and her friends at BLM as the..

Nattering Negroes of Negativism


5 posted on 06/23/2017 2:20:11 AM PDT by BubbaJunebug
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To: Altura Ct.

“my truth as a 19-year-old black woman”

+++++

BAHAHAHAHAHA.

What do you know about the world and life?

You have lived in your little sheltered American safe place life where anything a black says or does must be correct and all failings are due to someone else of a different color.

Go live in any African country where there is no one but blacks in charge...and then FIND your truth while trying to get enough to eat while the corruption seals everything you have.


6 posted on 06/23/2017 2:22:31 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Altura Ct.

Chronic BS


7 posted on 06/23/2017 2:27:23 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Altura Ct.

It’s black activists latest defence against being told that maybe blacks’ lives wouldn’t suck so much if they paid attention in school, read a few good books, and got a job and got married before having kids.


8 posted on 06/23/2017 2:33:12 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Altura Ct.; Fred Nerks

Every fascist movement that ever existed has a component of “historic justice.” For Hitler it was justice for the Aryan race after being exploited and saddled with WWI debt, allegedly exploited as a race by Jewish financiers, he imposed a final solution by genocide.He raved on about Leibenshraum ( living space) to justify expanding Germany’s borders.

It was the same in Japan, Justice for Asia in the modern era, going back to the days when Asia was not the exploited weak man, allegedly brought to glory by a bunch of militant fascists who thought they were old samurai reborn, they became the scourge of asia and the Western Pacific.

These present bigots who talk about the white man being responsible for the horrible enslavement of black people that happened over 100 years ago, when this white man and everyone else I know was not alive then. The sons must be held guilty for the actions of our so called predecessors? A reach for historic justice? That’s fascism folks, just like the others out of history.

And America has a remedy for these liberal fascists , just like we did with the fascists of Europe and Asia in the 20th Century. Come and get some!

And if you do not believe that we are confronting a fascist movement with these bigots here in the USA, just take a good read here:

Barrack Obama: The Quintessential Liberal Fascist:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


9 posted on 06/23/2017 2:39:24 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama Fascism (http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Altura Ct.

These “people” are becoming increasingly tedious.


10 posted on 06/23/2017 2:40:26 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Altura Ct.

The liberal white progressives taking racism to the next step


11 posted on 06/23/2017 2:43:42 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: thoughtomator

All human beings have free will, the ability to choose between truth and lie, good and evil. In this light, when Leftist demagogues within academia and elsewhere present concepts that appeal to ‘needs’ (i.e., need to fell sorry for oneself and believe one is ‘oppressed’) some people will eagerly choose to believe while others will not. The girl under discussion has not been programmed but rather has freely chosen to drink the cup of poison offered by Leftist psychopaths.


12 posted on 06/23/2017 2:48:12 AM PDT by spirited irish
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To: thoughtomator

Are these writings a cry for help?

Yes...financially... Tax free reparations for all blacks born between 1845 and June 21st 2017 and their descendants....

Now don’t you feel much better?


13 posted on 06/23/2017 2:56:06 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Altura Ct.
“My life experiences and oppression—my truth as a 19-year-old black woman—cannot be invalidated because of the inability of someone with privilege to see it,” she writes.

We don't invalidate your life experiences, sweetie... We just don't give a damn.

Why would anybody ever bother "whitesplaining" anything to anybody.

14 posted on 06/23/2017 2:56:20 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (eliminate perverse incentives)
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To: 2banana

She’s being set up for a life of chronic welfare and gibs me dat!

Go into the work force with this attitude and see how far you’ll go.

With a bit of luck you could work at McDonalds but you need to have a “white” work ethic to succeed.


15 posted on 06/23/2017 3:00:42 AM PDT by ChiMark (America America)
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To: Altura Ct.

These LEFTSPLAINING SJWs can insert their opinions into their buttholes.


16 posted on 06/23/2017 3:02:12 AM PDT by Maceman (Let's ban Muslims temporarily -- just until non-Muslims can freely practice their religions in Mecca)
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To: Altura Ct.

Jade Greear is a racist, plain and simple!


17 posted on 06/23/2017 3:09:01 AM PDT by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Blacksplaining—to tell everyone who isn’t black how much they don’t understand about segregated truth, segregated national observances and self-victimization meant to extort reparations from people who never owned a slave and who never wanted to.


18 posted on 06/23/2017 3:10:39 AM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: meadsjn

“Maybe someday they will grow up and join the discussion as adults.”

No, they won’t.

Next, they will demand that we wear white W’s on our coats.


19 posted on 06/23/2017 3:13:16 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: stinkerpot65

“Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.”

Yup.


20 posted on 06/23/2017 3:13:43 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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