Thanks. My latest interchange on Facebook, with a person I will call AWFL whom I have recently blocked. The post was about acknowledging that Irish people were also enslaved during the same time period as Africans:
AWFL: To me this post in this context says “Hey look over here! [waving hands] Don’t look deeper at anti-black American history” Not same but similar to “go away vegans no one cares. xyz bad thing is also important. so I will distract and change the topic from animals to xyz” The point made at the end of this video made me think of this post and the subsequent comments on your thread. David Ikard in response to being asked by a white author what to do about the author’s indiscretions: “There was a time in which if you were Jewish you were not white. If you were Italian you were not white. If you were Irish you were not white in this country. It took a while before the Irish, the Jews, and the Italians became white, right? There was a time in which you were othered, when you were the people on the outside. Toni Morrison said ‘If in order for you to feel taller I need to be in my knees, you have a serious problem’. She says ‘White America has a serious, serious problem’.”
(link to Ted Talk)
ME: You mean well, AWFL, but in my opinion you are pandering out of deep fear of the race you claim to be helping. I know you are married to a non-white person. You could be married to a black person and this sort of virtue signaling would still ring hollow. How dare white people presume the lived experience of any non-white person? Where do you guys get the nerve? And as for blacks, once again they are being used and abused for liberal policymaking that has never once helped them. I am half-white, making me as white as Barack Obama, and I resent this transparent form of pandering for political advantage. The Left has become a hammer and all it sees are nails. This seems to me and plenty of others like a final, desperate grab at thought policing via white guilt. Couldn't topple Orange Julius populism with the Me Too movement, so then it was off to Russian collusion. That failed, so now it's mandatory masks, toppled statues, and riots. Now you want civil war in order to forcibly install your way of thinking. That's what it looks like from my view, and I'm not alone.
I sense you are in a bad place and I don't envy your karma. I hope that you become more reflective and I will try to do the same. Be blessed.
Re: You nailed it
AWFL: To me this post in this context says “Hey look over here! [waving hands] Don’t look deeper at anti-black American history”
Not same but similar to “go away vegans no one cares. xyz bad thing is also important. so I will distract and change the topic from animals to xyz”
The point made at the end of this video made me think of this post and the subsequent comments on your thread.
David Ikard in response to being asked by a white author what to do about the author’s indiscretions:
“There was a time in which if you were Jewish you were not white. If you were Italian you were not white. If you were Irish you were not white in this country. It took a while before the Irish, the Jews, and the Italians became white, right? There was a time in which you were othered, when you were the people on the outside.
Toni Morrison said ‘If in order for you to feel taller I need to be in my knees, you have a serious problem’. She says ‘White America has a serious, serious problem’.”
(link to Ted Talk)
ME: You mean well, AWFL, but in my opinion you are pandering out of deep fear of the race you claim to be helping. I know you are married to a non-white person. You could be married to a black person and this sort of virtue signaling would still ring hollow. How dare white people presume the lived experience of any non-white person? Where do you guys get the nerve? And as for blacks, once again they are being used and abused for liberal policymaking that has never once helped them. I am half-white, making me as white as Barack Obama, and I resent this transparent form of pandering for political advantage. The Left has become a hammer and all it sees are nails. This seems to me and plenty of others like a final, desperate grab at thought policing via white guilt. Couldn't topple Orange Julius populism with the Me Too movement, so then it was off to Russian collusion. That failed, so now it's mandatory masks, toppled statues, and riots. Now you want civil war in order to forcibly install your way of thinking. That's what it looks like from my view, and I'm not alone.
I sense you are in a bad place and I don't envy your karma. I hope that you become more reflective and I will try to do the same. Be blessed.