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Can a white person understand what it's like to be a black person?

Can a white person understand what it's like to be a black person?

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Dragonfly said:
Can a white person understand what it's like to be a black person?
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"other - please explain": As much as a black person can understand what it's like to be white.

We don't even know ourselves particularly well, so how can we be expected to have perfect knowledge of others?
Understanding is implicitly imperfect, so we are forced to rely on generalizations and assumptions. For everything.
It is intellectually cringeworthy to see such natural generalizations hijacked for concepts such as "microaggression", when they are really universal, not just limited to sex, creed, or race. The only thing that differs is the approximation to accuracy of those generalizations. Of course two goldfish are more likely form accurate assumptions about each other than a termite and a polar bear are, and of course two culturally similar people are more likely to form accurate assumptions about each other than two people who are not culturally similar.

Remember the TV series Shogun? "You are not Japanese, Anjin-San. You will never truly understand us!"
That is merely the natural function of Understanding(tm) being inherently limited. It is not proof that we can never get along, as some people apparantly want to make it out to be.
 
Bodhisattva said:
Not sure anyone was post Civil War really... but conservatives were the ones that freed the slaves and tried to stop Southern Democrats from imposing Jim Crow Apartheid laws.
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lol, this was typed with a straight face.
 
Bodhisattva said:
It is institutionalized racism and you can't see it because you have white privilege seeping from your pores...
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thank you ,i never said i am white,and you are no independent you are a liberal socialist.

run don run
 
Puigb said:
Right wing revisionist history is an interesting phenomenon.
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Historical revisionists such as President Obama employ one or more of five methods for distorting America’s history to suit their purposes: 1) deconstructionism, 2) post-structuralism, 3) modernism, 4) minimalism, and 5) academic cronyism. Thinking people who respect and admire the truth no matter where it leads need to understand these five methods, recognize when they are being employed, and challenge the liberals who use them to distort the truth. The best way to challenge historical revisionists is to call the world’s attention to their use of these five wrong-headed, deceitful, and intellectually lazy methods.



deconstructionism is the practice of deliberately searching for the negatives in America’s HISTORY.
the liberal socialist left wants to turn our history into the poor black man's history,i am an AMERICAN INDIAN,you want to talk about revisionist history lets talk.
the BLACKS are always whining about how bad they have it .tell you what how about all of you including the BLACK people give us our land back,and paYyfor the over 100 million souls that you people killed in the AMERICAN INDIAN GENOCIDE.
revisionist history ,YES YOUR revisionist history ,GIVE US OUR LAND BACK AND CARRY YOUR ***.


RUN DON RUN
 
Bodhisattva said:
Some people can't see past their own bigotry...
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And some people have bought into ridiculous political ideologies to such a degree they just stop thinking.
 
SHOOTER said:
thank you ,i never said i am white,and you are no independent you are a liberal socialist.

run don run
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Wrong... and you are white. It oozes from your tone. White privilege does that.
 
Cephus said:
It means they've been raised for several generations on the same kind of liberal toxic narrative. When that's all you know, it's hard to throw off those shackles. The same goes for religion. It's why people have trouble embracing reality, because they've been taught this mind poison for their entire lives. It's hard to break indoctrination, especially if everyone you know is also indoctrinated.
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Those same white liberals stood side by side with blacks to help end segregation and ensure their right to vote. Most whites refused to acknowledge there was a problem, let alone put their lives on the line.
 
SHOOTER said:
no i am an American Indian,and you are one racist liberal .


run don run
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Even if you are you are not 100!% "Indian". Whst are you mixed with.

And i am much more conservative than liberal.
 
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