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
But “Die Whitey!” was such a winning campaign message in 2016, why should they change?
>>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.
Absolutely right! Let them keep talking in their echo chambers and getting more and more unelectable.
The only time you need to “whitesplain” is when your white college student comes home talking like they are oppressed minorities and you and your spouse are the oppressors—but they need some cash too so they’re willing to sit and roll their eyes at your lack of enlightenment.
Just withdraw from them completely; give them the segregated world they demand. If they say 2+2=5, who are we to judge?
Sounds like an inferiority complex. Do the poor little babies feel inferior? Good!
Ridiculous. If anything, everyone else is always telling whites what we think, feel, believe.
FYI, I don't give a $hit about your complaints and your BS excuses as to why you feel this way or that. As a matter of fact there are literally billions of people in this world who don't give a $hit about you. Get over yourselves and get to work to better yourselves. If you don't no one, absolutely no one will.
Shakespeare, Beethoven, Notre Dame, Hoover Dam-the history of civilisation is the history of whites.
Yah, OK, c’ya ‘splainin’.
......it’s the new Sivad thing
The value of “whitesplaining” can be shown by a story an old British gentleman once told me about when his father was teaching in Africa. He was confronted by some student radicals who demanded to know why they should listen to anything some old white guy had to say. His angry response was “How else are you bloody wogs supposed to learn that everything you think you know is wrong?”.
We keep trying (white flight) but the hypocrites keep chasing us around. They may not want whites in their lives (questionable), but they certainly want the world which whites make, or they wouldn’t chase us all over the place to be by us.
Every time an SJW opens their mouth they are “’splaining” something. Transplaining, Gaysplaining, Racesplaining, Refugesplaining...etc.
Feel free to add on.
What’s next they will change what they now call islamophobes as christsplaining or christspreading?
The left is always BUTTSPLAINING. It’s what they do.
Some whites I work with still haven't figured it out yet and even though they are correct and only trying to help, they are vilified. I don't bother trying anymore. The ones who came up with that term only want to display their ignorance like a medal.
I won’t have my right to a viewpoint derided because of my skin color or sex.
Screw off Commies.
#EndWhiteShaming
Ok. We have nothing to say to each other.
I agree. I named the first two, and then remembered that it would take volumes of books to just list the names of all the white males who have, in ways both grand and mundane, made this world more livable, and wonderful to live in. So many times, at great cost-even their lives-to themselves. It’s the world which the rest of the world wants to come to, if they don’t have what it takes to copy it. When whites disappear, that world goes with us. We have the proof of that in our lifetimes, just from watching places such as South Africa. They can’t even maintain what whites created and built there.
Let me translate what this bigot is saying; “shut up, I’m talking”.
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