What do you make of this phrase about racial equality?

[OddBeMe]

“When we make everyone equal, those at the top feel oppressed.”

Another version of this phrase was written like this:

”When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

I know

I don’t know

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11 mo

A great reply was “pro white isn’t anti black”…which was a good Q. And as I replied, it has historical baggage, does it not?

[Snakeyes7]

That picture was likely taken during the Civil rights movement, when the law allowed discrimination and our culture was based on a threat narrative against blacks.

As for your update: there's no such thing as historical baggage when it comes to race, just the individuals who were behind the evil deeds. No one alive today have enslaved blacks nor were many people alive today responsible for the Jim Crow laws.

Judge by content of character not by skin color. Can you guess what "white supremacist" wanted that standard to be our future?

[Guanfei]

Bullshit used to give those considered "oppressed" different rights and privileges, to be above the said "oppressor".

Just like you're doing in the US and the UK, where white are banned from different things.

Like the TfL in London banning white people from internship. Or the different companies and universities giving huge advantages to black people.

This is not equality at all, and those who pretend it is are those who benefit from it.

[OddBeMe]

How is it above? Isn’t it just equal?

[Guanfei]

Equal would mean the same treatment for everyone. Not giving special right to a group of people over another group.
You know, the thing people didn't like when done to black people, but suddenly it's fine when openly and officially done to white people.

[OddBeMe]

Special right to a group who lacks equality?

[Guanfei]

Special rights, yes. When you reject a group to give another group the priority, it's special rights.
I know very well what you think, it's incredibly stupid, and there are no laws targeting black people. There are laws, and programs, however, giving them the priority before white and even Asians.
Of course, pretending they're victims is a nice excuse to allow them to be a priority everywhere, and to discriminate or be racist openly. Which they gladly do.

[OddBeMe]

So we can’t target someone who’s hurt…we have to provide aid to everyone no matter what.

That sounds communist.

[msmissydc]

100% agree, it even fits for more and goes further than racial equality. This needs to be carefully used though, as that which @msc545 said is also true. Not EVERYONE who feels oppressed is loosing privileges, sometimes there is actually a feel of oppression because its true.

[OddBeMe]

Funny how their oppression comes from their politicians who’s pull the wool.

[FreyaRed]

Ergo. Pro white isn't anti black.

[OddBeMe]

Eeesssshhhh…. history matters. And than concept is loaded with supremacy.

[FreyaRed]

Maybe someone should gift you a clown mask to next birthday

[OddBeMe]

I won’t you say you don’t have a point. Honestly yours got me thinking more than any other reply here.

But seriously, if you are “pro white” that does carry historical baggage, doesn’t it?

[FreyaRed]

Historical Baggage?
Please elaborate what is this ominous baggage?

[OddBeMe]

Pro white? Kkk? Slavery? This country in particular has had hundreds of years of white supremacy.

[FreyaRed]

I'm not American hence this BS doesn't apply to me anyway. Maybe you should address your "historical baggage" theory exclusively on people who owned colonial real estate, slave ships, who are KKK members. Otherwise you sound like an extremist.

[OddBeMe]

Not just them. Jim Crow laws kept black families from good jobs, unlike whites who have a solid domino effect of wealth. It matters.

[OddBeMe]

Not in total agreement, but you definitely made me think more than the others.

[Anonymous]

"A South politician preaches to the poor white man
"You got more than the blacks, don't complain
You're better than them, you been born with white skin, " they explain
And the Negro's name
Is used, it is plain
For the politician's gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game"

[goaded]

Ah, a Dylan song I'd never heard. It's been two generations since that came out, time enough for the pawns to have opened their eyes, you'd think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X0UmfBwA_U

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded they never did. They go after the wrong people for privledge. Hard to argue some white trash folks living in a trailer park have privledge and are oppressors who owe reparations.
Anderson Cooper for instance is the poster child of privledge and probably should pay reparations given his families long history and how he directly benefited from it.

[msc545]

I think it is probably true, but - here is the corollary phrase: "When things are unequal, those at the bottom ARE oppressed.'

[OddBeMe]

I think both are true. One feels… one is.

[exitseven]

t is about the democrats pandering for votes.