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Are White Women Better Now?
The Atlantic ^ | APRIL 30, 2024 | Nellie Bowles

Posted on 04/30/2024 10:48:43 AM PDT by nickcarraway

What anti-racism workshops taught us

We had to correct her, and we knew how to do it by now. We would not sit quietly in our white-bodied privilege, nor would our corrections be given apologetically or packaged with niceties. There I was, one of about 30 people attending a four-day-long Zoom seminar called “The Toxic Trends of Whiteness,” hosted by the group Education for Racial Equity.

An older white woman whom I’ll call Stacy had confessed to the group that she was ashamed of being white, and that she hoped in her next life she wouldn’t be white anymore. This provided us with a major learning moment. One participant began by amping herself up, intoning the concepts we’d been taught over the past two days: “Grounding, rooting, removing Bubble Wrap.” Then she got into it. “What I heard you say about wanting to come back as a dark-skinned person in your next life was racist, because as white people we don’t have the luxury of trying on aspects of people of color.”

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To: nickcarraway

Oh, gag me. 🙄


21 posted on 04/30/2024 12:31:00 PM PDT by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated. )
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To: 4Runner

Das right, senior.


22 posted on 04/30/2024 12:42:09 PM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: nickcarraway

bump


23 posted on 04/30/2024 1:33:03 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Magnum44

The only reason I opened this thread. THANK YOU!! LOL


24 posted on 04/30/2024 2:48:56 PM PDT by Moleman
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To: nickcarraway

When I need to know the state of white women at any point in time I always turn first to The Atlantic.


25 posted on 04/30/2024 3:23:11 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: packagingguy

I think she is already that...a pathetic, self-loathing sewer rat.


26 posted on 04/30/2024 3:34:18 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: packagingguy

The logical solution to this delusion of whiteness being a problem is... segregation! These people are so incredibly stupid.


27 posted on 04/30/2024 4:43:16 PM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: daku
The last decade...



a lot longer than that with a bunch of white people who took the bait well before blacks. (Pictured are politicians who should of been executed by anyone who understood human nature and economics but celebrated by white people and financers).
28 posted on 04/30/2024 5:05:11 PM PDT by rollo tomasi
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