I hate the old line about someone being unable to understand something because “they haven’t lived it.” If that’s the standard no one can understand anything beyond their own life.
They need to read a book (or watch a video, after all it's the 21st century) which makes clear how absurd identity politics, and particularly the anti-white variety thereof, has become.
I recommend the title, "White Like Me."
Me too. It is a trite cliché. I guess no affluent black person could really understand the struggle of a poor white coal miner since the black person “hasn’t lived it.”
Terence said that being human, nothing about being human could be alien to him.
This bit of wisdom is entirely contrary to the spirit of modern so-called “progressivism” that requires sympathy on an emotional level even as it disallows true empathy. It places suffering and elation alike in a black box that no one unapproved of can penetrate, or rather is allowed to penetrate.
The absurdity of the present “liberal” formulation of race and identity is that, entirely contrary to MLK’s stated wishes, it has found a way to resurrect the very old idea (once behind black slavery in the US) that the color or a person’s skin says something ineffiable about them, who they are and even who they should be, so that progressives are very much those who judge by the color of skin and not the content of character.
Where it is different is now the jailor is INSIDE the jail, not outside. The door is locked from within and anyone (who is not white) who does not want to be bound by this idea of race then becomes a traitor to their race. As for whites ... well, more about that in moments.
But the jail absolutely REMAINS no matter from which direction the door is held closed!
Men continue to be judged by the color of their skin and not the content of their character.
Now, about whites: please don’t think that this way of thinking about race that I’ve described doesn’t come with a self imposed prison for them too.
Consider how this way of thinking enjoins working corruptions of blood: declaring some guilty and offenders because of their race.
To believers in this way of thinking this is the jail for whites.
To be black and not accept the primacy of race is to be a traitor to your race. To be white and not accept the guilt that is imputed by your race is to be a traitor to Justice herself!
There is, naturally, more that can be said: such as how this belief system goes beyond merely working corruptions of blood to assert what might be called innocence of blood — or where actual wrongdoers cannot be held liable for their actual misdeeds or flaws in their own characters because of their race (infamously the claim that black persons cannot be racists as an example); but, I suppose the above is enough for one post.
I agree, I actually think I have a fair understanding of what it is like to be “hanged by the neck until dead”, something which I obviously haven’t “lived”.