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Supporting Black History Month is racist. Don't buy the emotional hype, people. All history is human history and group identity is always bullshit at scale.

Apart from the fact that it's incredibly patronising.

Advocate wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 4:24 pm Supporting Black History Month is racist. Don't buy the emotional hype, people. All history is human history and group identity is always bullshit at scale.

I broadly agree with this.
But the trouble is that generations of mainly old white male historicans have white-washed history and have denied a voice to ordinary people.
Until we confront slavery and racism in our midst we shall never come to terms with it.

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Apart from the fact that it's incredibly patronising.
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Apart from that it's inherently divisive.

Of course, 'old white males' aren't ordinary people. Not even human, apparently
Who are these 'old white males' anyway? Were they ever 'young white males'?

All history is human history.

Supporting Black History Month is racist.
No, it isn't. Only people who don't understand the concept of "racism" and who think they do could believe this. That's white people, mostly.

Don't buy the emotional hype, people.
Don't try to sell the emotional hype, white people.

All history is human history
... er ... no shit, Sherlock!

...and group identity is always bullshit at scale.
No, but sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't.

White supremacy is a thing. Ask a Nazi.

Advocate wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 4:24 pm Supporting Black History Month is racist.

Worth a look. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRnTovm26I4

Although research reveals infants demonstrate a preference for caregivers of their own race, any future racial biases generally are environmentally acquired.

One way of rectifying this bias is by allowing young children to become accustomed to other races in a harmoniously positive manner.

Adult racist sentiments, however, are often cemented by a misguided yet strong sense of entitlement, perhaps also acquired from rearing.

Fortunately, at a very young age I was emphatically told by my mother about the exceptionally kind and caring nature of our black family doctor.

She never had anything disdainful to say about people of color; in fact she loves to watch/listen to the Middle Eastern and Indian subcontinental dancers and musicians on the multicultural channels.

Conversely, if she’d told me the opposite about the doctor, I could’ve aged while blindly linking his color with an unjustly cynical view of him and all black people.

When angry, my (late) father occasionally expressed displeasure with Anglo immigrants, largely due to his own experiences with bigotry as a new Canadian citizen in the 1950s and ’60s.

He, who like Mom emigrated from Eastern Europe, didn’t resent non-white immigrants, for he realized they had things at least as bad. Plus he noticed—as I also now do—in them an admirable absence of a sense of entitlement.

Thus essentially by chance I reached adulthood unstricken by uncontrolled feelings of racial contempt seeking expression.

Not as lucky, some people—who may now be in an armed authority capacity—were raised with a distrust or blind dislike of other racial groups.

Regardless, the first step towards changing our irrationally biased thinking is our awareness of it and its origin.

But until then, ugly sentiments must be either suppressed or professionally dealt with, especially when considering the mentality is easily inflamed by anger.

mickthinks wrote: ↑Fri Feb 12, 2021 3:54 pm Supporting Black History Month is racist.
No, it isn't. Only people who don't understand the concept of "racism" and who think they do could believe this. That's white people, mostly.

Don't buy the emotional hype, people.
Don't try to sell the emotional hype, white people.

All history is human history
... er ... no shit, Sherlock!

...and group identity is always bullshit at scale.
No, but sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't.

White supremacy is a thing. Ask a Nazi.

Were you born this stupid or is it a carefully cultivated act, Mr. McStinks?

Oh FFS. Humans hate each other. That's why there are wars. The best we can do is have laws that protect everyone, EQUALLY.
Enough of the phoniness and hypocrisy. Who ordains that we HAVE to love each other?
At the moment, in this country, we have racist arseholes clear-felling trees for the 'crime' of not being native. No one is allowed to complain about this self-serving phoniness and outright lies. The person behind it 'just happens' to be a property developer, but because of Political Correctness it's considered acceptable to be an econazi, destroying life because it doesn't have the 'correct' lineage-- as long as the perpetrator isn't 'white'. Apparently white people aren't capable of feeling a connection with, or undrstanding the value of, great trees.

Were you born this stupid or is it a carefully cultivated act, Mr. McStinks?

lol That's a new low you've sunk to, vt. Any further and you'll be lost to sight completely.

Oh 'lol'. Hilaire.

Sculptor wrote: ↑Tue Feb 09, 2021 11:28 pm Until we confront slavery and racism in our midst we shall never come to terms with it.

Until we confront slavery and racism in our personal intent we shall never come to terms with it.

The only terms are accept or reject.


Is Atticus Finch a Racist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKy0pbCLs7I

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Until we confront slavery and racism in our midst we shall never come to terms with it.
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It's not in my midst and i neither participate in it nor have the desire or resources available to fight it. Why then must i confront it? Who is this "we" you're talking about?