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The Trap of White Privilege, and Rejecting the Cult of Victimology
frontpagemag.com ^ | 3/20/2020 | Jason Hill

Posted on 03/20/2020 3:08:06 PM PDT by rktman

In thirty-four years of living in America, I have never faced the problem of radical racial resistance from committed individualists, many of whom fall within the conservative camp. They have mostly accepted me as an individual and treated me as an equal. My race to them was neither a qualifier nor a disqualifier, but a sociological marker which, as far as I could tell, was irrelevant to how I performed. In my experience with far-left progressives there exists an insidious racism that is often hard to diagnose. Their sense of their own whiteness required black helplessness and inadequacy to shore up a sense of guilt, which would then prompt action on their part, from which they could seek redemption and contrition.

There is unbridled hubris behind such psychic exploitation, because one needs to posit an inferior before one can masochistically experience redemption from some perceived wrong one has inflicted against another. That wrong, which the so-called progressive feels she or he has wielded, is white privilege.

Earth hath no greater self-righteous and moralistic avenging angel than the progressive afflicted with a sense of wrongful white privilege. So, what did I do in the face of the holder of this white privilege? I committed the worst crime possible: I communicated that it was a farce.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: horsehockee; libs
I'm sure if it was a wider photo we would see more POC than the photo displayed. Right? Seems like a lot of folks were severely indoctrinated/abused to carry so much guilt for something they had nothing to do with. Special rights ain't equal rights.
1 posted on 03/20/2020 3:08:06 PM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Shows you what a bunch of mushheads we have in this country


2 posted on 03/20/2020 3:12:27 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: ronnie raygun

But I bet the got lots of TP.


3 posted on 03/20/2020 3:13:41 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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“The sense of superiority is unmistakable.”

Which is really the entire point of this posturing. It has nothing to do with doing the right thing, or righting wrongs.


4 posted on 03/20/2020 3:16:59 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: rktman

“So, what did I do in the face of the holder of this white privilege? I committed the worst crime possible: I communicated that it was a farce. I laughed at it, made it clear I was unharmed by it, rendered the holders irrelevant, and incurred their repressed but seething wrath.”

Good for him. Some bridges are worth burning.


5 posted on 03/20/2020 3:23:27 PM PDT by moovova ("Socially irresponsible and irredeemable.")
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If whiteness is a privilege, as is maleness, then what do people expect white people or men to do about them? Act black? Feminize themselves?

That is half what is happening. Our whole social and educational structure is feminizing men and the whole nation. On the other hand if you "act black" your are accused of Cultural Appropriation which is to say you are flaunting White Privilege when you should be tugging your forelock.

6 posted on 03/20/2020 3:45:40 PM PDT by arthurus (covfefe camping out)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Actually it is Insecurity with a pose of Superiority born from an inner fear that one is inferior.


7 posted on 03/20/2020 3:47:12 PM PDT by arthurus (to be covfefe)
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“Actually it is Insecurity with a pose of Superiority born from an inner fear that one is inferior.”

Maybe he secretly feels overwhelmed by the responsibility. Nevertheless, he should be implementing more systematic testing so we can understand what we’re facing. Yes, that does make a difference. And it’s better than “shut up and do exactly what I say, or people will die because of you”.


8 posted on 03/20/2020 3:59:23 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: rktman

bkmk


9 posted on 03/20/2020 4:52:22 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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