Posted on 07/05/2015 11:46:01 AM PDT by rightistight
If you vote Republican, there's a good chance you're doing it because you want to "hurt people of Color." That's one of the messages from Everyday Feminism's new article, "Here Are the Real Reasons Why We White People Struggle to Admit That Racism Still Exists."
The author, Jamie Utt, says that "we whites" need to realize the evil we're perpetrating.
One of the "reasons" why white people can't admit that racism still exists is that "White People Have an Emotional Stake in Denying White Supremacy," he explains.
"Because that way, we can avoid dealing with how were complicit in its pervasiveness," Utt begins. "Admitting that were acting in racist ways or supporting racist systems is terrifying. And it hurts. Scarier still is doing the deep emotional reflection to understand the ways that we may be truly racist deep down."
He continues, "I have an emotional stake in reacting defensively to allegations that I have hurt a person of Color with my privileged actions. I have an emotional stake in pretending that my equitable values are in alignment with the world I create for myself."
Utt then claims that those who vote Republican do so "against our self-interests in order to enact policies that hurt people of Color."
He then links to an article from the Guardian titled, "Working class voters: why America's poor are willing to vote Republican." In the article, it accuses whites of voting for Republicans, at least partially, because of racism.
By doing such things, we "are living in a "culture of make believe,"" he writes.
"And when we defend racist systems and refuse to be self reflective about our complicity in them," Utt continues, "we turn our back on that core, connecting aspect of what makes us human."
He concludes, "By investing in Whiteness, we turn our backs on our own humanity."
Only idiots of color.
Privilege is what you win when you guilt the ones
towing the line into thinking they have privilege.
I can think of at least ONE "person of color" that voting (R) would render unemployed.
What a dork. Even if anything in his moronic screed SOUNDED plausible, the picture would have given it away.
Don’t forget giving undeserved preference to white customers when those silly Negroes aren’t present (thanks Eddie Murphy documentary for breaking that one!)
Funny list. I get sick of the white guilt liberals. When ISIS co es o er ans enslaves them they will realize how idiotic they sounded and ow good thwy really had it.
By their logic then, people who vote Democrat do so to hurt white people.
No no, Democrats vote because they’re optimistic loving people who love unicorns and fart rainbows.
Don’t knock them just yet: there was some semblance of civilisation in Africa, back in the Middle Ages and early modern era...
God only knows what happened after the fall of Songhai, that they have not been able to establish a functioning society, until European colonisation in the 19th century...
(Most of the nation-building of that time was concentrated in West Africa; many of them were Islamic states. Even so, tribalism remained paramount; Mali and Songhai were the two attempts at making a unified African society.)
Do I get credit for my recent ancestors being Native Americans? LOL /s
Not my wife - she's Irish and she is actually white.
I can read the newspaper under the sheets at night.
Yet the KKK are Democrats.
(Except asians)
And whites any any minorities who have self respect and get off their fat butts and take care of themselves
"was" being the operative word here.
When I think about what happened more recently to Rhodesia, followed by South Africa, it makes me sick.
And who can forget leaders of the common man like Idi Amin and good old Bob Mugabe?
No, I don't think anywhere in Africa will be on my vacation list anytime soon...
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