It's been really interesting to observe conservative whites taking to labeling fellow whites "racist." The way Glennfs treats GoU is a really good case in point.Libertas wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 7:01 pm Yeah, that is what you told me years ago, never forgot it, but I wanted you to say it, I didnt want to tell them how you know what you know and why you wont do what they want, that is for you to tell them, and you did.
You remember the time I told you that growing up I knew as a white non Jewish str8t male I knew I was "king" as it relates to how I get treated in society compared to others? I am not king of course nor are any of the others here the same as me but it was an awkward way of making a point of privilege before anybody talked about it or before I knew what privilege was. I also recall having the absurd thought as a pre teen that when I saw a Black child, which was almost never in person because of where I lived, that the child/person wanted to be white like me, because of how well white people lived compared to Black people (in my upside down pre teen head at the time.) That most if not all Black people (in my head at the time) lived in poverty. Maybe not Sammy Davis Jr or Sidney Poitier but most others.
I dont blame my parents for my thinking that way because I am sure I never asked them questions about it. I blame a racist society and TV and etc. I do remember being that 10 yr old and when Maya Angelou and her bongo player were at my house for dinner I didn't notice it in a big way and you think I would based on what I just described. I know our neighbors sure as hell did. Might have been one of the reasons my mom did it. Which is in and of itself racist, but she was a lifelong fan after that. She gave Maya her hat and I want to think she wore it often. And i lost the letter Maya sent my father and I DAMMIT!
It's just a game for him, just as it is labeling me "racist."
"Racism" to people like that is simply talking about what conservative whites have done to everyone else. So it doesn't take much to be "racist." It's why they're into literally banning books. Good luck banning the archives that these books refer to.