White Flight vs Gentrification. Can good honest White Folks do anything without it being called racist?

[US-Agent88]

[nightdrot]

While the sentiment in the question is understandable, it is needlessly despairing. In fact, the epithet of "racism" has become thrown about so much that it is rapidly losing its force. The term becoming just more of the background noise to the nation's political and cultural debates.

Indeed, such is the state of affairs that recently, when the Republicans denounced the Democrat majority's voting rights bill - HR 1 - the latter's leaders immediately raised the cry of "racism." It was as predictable as the sunrise.

What changed was that, where in the past such accusations would have sent Republican Members of Congress to the cameras and microphones to issue statements of their innocence and pure motives, this time the reaction was different. A mere shrug of the shoulders, with the House Minority Leader going so far as to say, in a television interview, "That is what the Democrats say about everything."

The sound and fury will continue for a time as the nation remains in a populist mood at the moment. Cries of oppression by the powerful elite - of whatever political, racial or other stripe - will remain de rigueur for the time being because a populist era is characterized by a distrust of elites and institutions and a pervasive sense of self-pity.

However, the magic is gone. The slur of racism has lost its force. It will emotionally feed those who are inclined to believe that they are the victims of racism - which they wrongly conflate with bigotry (they are different things.) It will be echoed and inflated in the media - especially, and this is significant, the echo chamber that is social media.

For the public at large, the force of the accusation will more and more be met with a sigh and a giant shrug. People are apt either not to believe it or to assume that nothing can be done about it beyond what has already been done in law and the culture.

Of course, the alarming aspect to this is, unlike other periods - when the cries of racism had more obvious and immediate causes - in the current age, social media allows the individual to live in his own mental universe. Whereas the old media forced individuals of opposing views to see the world more or less through the same experiential prism, social media allows each to go to his own intellectual corner.

Thus while the force of the cries of racism is apt to diminish, the volume and persistence of those cries is not apt to abate. This will have its own profound - and likely negative - social implications. At least until such time - as with after the tumults of the 1960s and 70s - the national culture grows weary of conflict and noise.

Until then, things are apt to be ugly, but the debate will be non-productive. "Racism" has become just another word in the political/cultural lexicon. Both when it is justified and when it is not. This being the price to be paid when the most extreme calumnies become a substitute for actual historical and sociological analysis.

[SmolSlav]

I definitely find that there seems to be a lot of fragility when people are called out for doing things that hurt other communities. For example, Gentrification tends to raise property values above what marginalized communities can pay, and "White Flight" tends to leave people unemployed, which contributes to rising poverty, which has been proven to contribute to a rise in crime rates. Gentrification and White Flight tends to be motivated by the presence of minorities, and has resulted in higher poverty rates in the communities that get displaced so it's definitely safe to say that those are Racist. Furthermore, when people say something is racist, it's not directed at individuals, we thankfully have a lot less of that, but at institutions as a whole which tend to favor White people.

[AndriaAlex]

Agent, you have me just rolling lmao. Sadly and pathetically nothing more white folks can do without being racist. I admit I'm racist to all colors equally stupid and ignorant. Im racist to myself. I'll be racist after death based on what casket I've been buried in. Too fancy , white privaleged racist. Just a simple pine box, racist being accused that i took a cheap casket pretending not to offend anyway. I will be racist to myself by wearing a t shirt that says "Aunt and Uncle Cracker white rice"

[Agape93]

No idea. I made a joke earlier about a guy gluing his hand to his dick, and he tried to make it seem like a racial attack because I mentioned using gorilla glue. You know, the strong super glue that’s been in the news lately, when an idiot glued her hair?


Yeah no, I’m not playing that stupid racial woke crap. If I’m not bringing race into something, and they are, then they’re the ones with a racial issue, not me.

[Wise4myage]

Oh no, I just bought some Gorilla glue. 😂

[Agape93]

Oh no! That’s racist glue XD

[Wise4myage]

I would not be surprised If that happened.

[SuccessfulHornDog]

@Wise4myage Isn't Elmer's Glue more Racist though. All white and full of itself.

[Wise4myage]

@SuccessfulHornDog lol.

[Jet-Blaque]

White people need to practice more racism. You honestly got soft. Between liberal gay white men and Asians arealing and kicking y'all ass. Blacks being puppets for the media and Mexicans overpopulation.
You become push overs.


The left needs racism to place fear and hate in their base so they'll go vote. While they don't out socialism hand outs. Or nothing

[exitseven]

My uncle used to say that once people start making fun of things, their days are numbered. Those graphics were hysterical.

[anylolone]

Lol!

"Gentrification is the act of some rich people raising some poor people out of poverty by pricing the parasites out of it."

[Anonymous]

Why did questions about this breed proliferate? Which century are we in? the issue of more black race, white race, beautiful race, ugly race returns. Can't you find original questions?

[AndriaAlex]

I find it a perfectly pertinent, and relevant question. My whole life I've never been racist. But now that I've been made aware that I'm racist just for breathing, but moreso how people are racist to me for being born white. If I had a penny for every time I heard someone say in a negative tone"(that white person!)", id be a billionaire just from the last 4 years alone.

[Opinion Owner]

these are empty jobs. if you are white you are white. if you are black you are black. it's over.

[Enochian]

Yeah. There are those who are racist, but majority aren’t.

[Jack9949]

Honestly. Its getting really annoying seeing white people complain about racism. Please stop

[SuccessfulHornDog]

ok..

[Jack9949]

@SuccessfulHornDog what?

[OddBeMe]

Not if they are racist. But I’d argue we all do “racist” and “sexist” shit. The smart ones among us just accept it and change without being crybabies.

[Wiredone]

I'm not racist. I only dislike ignorant, selfish, and disrespectful people.

[msc545]

Being white is hard these days

[Anonymous]

Never been called racist so🤷🏻‍♀️

[joeldalton]

🤡🌎