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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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To: ought-six

I know, but I did say “maybe”. The future looks ugly.


21 posted on 06/23/2017 3:20:02 AM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Altura Ct.

Seems like there’s a whole lot of blacksplaining going on, explaining whiteness to whites.


22 posted on 06/23/2017 3:22:38 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 2banana

A 19 year old black woman who grew up in the era of a black muslim president. Oooh the shhtruggles she must have gone through.


23 posted on 06/23/2017 3:29:14 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: meadsjn

“The future looks ugly.”

It does indeed.


24 posted on 06/23/2017 3:30:17 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: onedoug

There probably was quite a lot of chronic involved in coming up with this BS, in the urban dictionary sense of the word chronic.


25 posted on 06/23/2017 3:30:48 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Altura Ct.

Lib-splainin’

Why Venezuela is what they want America to become. A leftist Utopia.


26 posted on 06/23/2017 3:33:56 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Altura Ct.

27 posted on 06/23/2017 3:42:35 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: onedoug

Chronic BlackSplaining?


28 posted on 06/23/2017 3:43:49 AM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Looks to me,she had throwed some ebonicawmmacations to tha name Greer. But that’s an opinion.


29 posted on 06/23/2017 3:45:15 AM PDT by Recompennation
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To: Altura Ct.

If it’s so great, why does it need to namecall?


30 posted on 06/23/2017 3:46:46 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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White man’s bump


31 posted on 06/23/2017 3:47:39 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Altura Ct.

The Magna Carta-— whitesplaining
The Declaration of Independence-— whitesplaining
The Constitution-— whitesplaining


32 posted on 06/23/2017 3:49:48 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Altura Ct.

These terms like mansplaining and whitesplaining make me suspect Ebonics is gaining ground here.


33 posted on 06/23/2017 3:51:46 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: BubbaJunebug

You are not niggardly when it comes to using those n words


34 posted on 06/23/2017 3:51:49 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Altura Ct.

The most prodigious “whitesplainers” are Democrats so rant away, hope it takes root far and wide. Then, watch the next election cycle when they lose their precious black bloc. Kaboom.


35 posted on 06/23/2017 3:52:22 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: 2banana

Like Muhammad Ali said, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.”


36 posted on 06/23/2017 3:58:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Altura Ct.

I think it’s kind of cute that some minorities actually think their opinions matter.


37 posted on 06/23/2017 4:01:15 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: Altura Ct.
To Jade Greear:

Lemme "whitesplain" it to you this way liberal moron:

"White" Republicans freed the slaves.

38 posted on 06/23/2017 4:01:19 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" month.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Privilege?
Points added to exam results.
Admitted to college with lower qualifications.
Can bump anyone designated as “White.”
Free tuition.
Dumb blather admitted as valid entrance requirements. “BLM” 100 times.
Passed in spite of failure.
Ability to accuse a “White” of anything at all, and be believed.
Graduated in spite of inability to meet graduation requirements.
Offered job solely because of skin color.
Immunity from criticism or consequences. “Protective pigmentation.”
Privilege given when running for public office.
Automatic “moral superiority” in any matter.
Automatic approval for welfare benefits.


39 posted on 06/23/2017 4:01:35 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Le Pen: "Islamism is a totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on civilization.")
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To: Altura Ct.

So she’s “Blacksplaining”


40 posted on 06/23/2017 4:01:49 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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