Re: "white privilege."
Amazing! People, black and white alike, have gotten so comfortable using it as a pejorative that they can't comprehend why they should be offended by, and or ashamed to use, the term. Thanks so much for sharing the image, as it adds even more emphasis to Keisha's oration!
A lot of people were pissed by that poster when the Smithsonian put it out. Rightfully so.
FOUND IT!Can you pleasetell'em to
PUT IT BACK!😂Smithsonian's National Museum of
African American History & Culture.
The Newest Smithsonian Institution.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200715192955im_/https://nmaahc.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_caption/public/images/captioned/whiteculture_info_1.png
So kind of the Smithsonian to instruct black folk on what they cannot do.
Can you believe the Smithsonian Institute published that garbage?
It also is a pretty huge window into the minds of the people that pushed that drivel.
Very racist, and definitely would fit the term white supremacists quite well even if they themselves are not white.
They are sharing pretty amazing traits there for the most part that most people I know regardless of skin color aspire to. They are calling that white.
It's much like calling math racist.
They don't realize they are saying because people are smart and learn math (again, nothing to do with skin color) they are racist.
So by extension they must be implying that these other people are not as smart, which in some ways would mean inferior.
Yet they claim to be so virtuous and anti-racist.
They either know exactly what they are doing and are some truly sick and evil people, or they are so totally brainwashed and ignorant they can't see the fact their ideas are wearing no clothes.
Almost all of the things I've seen happen over the last six years have me in a complete state of shock and awe. It started with a short clip I saw on the internet called 'Modern Educayshun.' I watched it but didn't get it, and at the same time, I found it hilarious! I thought it was some weird caricature of whatever the hell was going on in college lately. I didn't realize it was a photorealistic carbon copy of what's happening in college nowadays.
Shortly thereafter, Jordan Peterson got confronted about rejecting prescribed language at the University of Toronto. Then it was Yale students freaking out at professor Nicholas Christakis about Halloween costumes that "culturally appropriate." The Bret Weinstein incident followed suit over at Evergreen State College in Washington. I believe this was when the whole microaggressions thing became this huge phenomenon. And some of them are legitimately slightful, while others aim to turn Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's message on its head.
So if you acknowledge someone's skin color, that's racist. But if you're colorblind, then you're marginalizing someone's experience. The goings-on in the past several years has been the most radical shitshow I've seen before in my entire life. Oh, and "anti-racism" is just racism against straight white males. But advocates of this type of racism don't think it's racism because they identify with one of the myriads of "oppressed and marginalized" splinter groups who fancy themselves as victims.
They think they do not have "institutional power" and believe that prejudice + institutional power = racism. And since they don't have this "institutional power," they think they are only doing bigotry or prejudice but not racism. Essentially they've had their minds washed with a horse shit enema straight in the earhole, a bunch of pseudo-intellectual tripe served to them with a silver spoon on an ornate platter manifesting itself as a college degree.
Yeah I sometimes call it mind rot. I often refer to it as a mental or mind virus too.
Just like most illnesses it has a lot of unpleasant but different symptoms depending upon where it occurs.
That's why I bother arguing with them. It is rare I wake someone up. Yet when I do they usually become quite amazing. It is much like people surviving an illness then having an immunity.
Education is the only place we might be able to confer that immunity without them having to live through it. Yet right now the Education System is one of the clusters of illness that is spreading it everywhere else.