The critical race theory panic has White people afraid that they might be complicit in racism

[Rickeroo]

Article here. I think it's clear that eventually, if not currently, the way we are supposed to think is that an individual White person is indeed complicit in racism.

Any thoughts on how to remedy a White's complacency in the matter?

 

[Mika-El]

Article here. I think it's clear that eventually, if not currently, the way we are supposed to think is that an individual White person is indeed complicit in racism.

Any thoughts on how to remedy a White's complacency in the matter?

I do not support CRT anymore than I do what you have posed above in your questioning for the exact same reasons which also answers your question. The use of skin colour to define a group's collective identity can be used negatively or positively depending on the context of who is using it. Myself, I find skin pigment an outmoded method to categorize people. Many agree with me. When we criticized Donald Trump its true we criticized him for being orange and having yellow urine hair, but we were just being colourful. Whatever colour his hair or skin, it was his words we objected to. Anyone using skin colour to promote or justify negative behaviour is subject to the exact same challenge.

No I do not think its clear as you pose that all white people are complicit in racism as you say simply because someone WHITE or BLACK said it anymore than in reverse when people blame all black people for extreme statements of Black Lives Matter.

Have a nice multi-coloured rainbow day. Do not worry you need not be gay to appreciate the rainbow. Think of it as going to Baskins Robbins. Try another flavour other than chocolate or vanilla. I go for French mint. Alien lizard green with a hint of a French woman from the Cote D'Azur. Regards, Pepe LaPu.

 

[bluesmoke]

Individual white people are not complicit in racism. Only rarely identified as such. The US is complicit in racism from day one, and since colonial times, and ongoing. Yes, it was all built on white supremacy. While there is no longer slavery laws that specifically deny rights against people of color or ethnicity, racism remains systemic. Studying the facts of that and transitioning from one state of condition, racism, to another, whatever that looks like, is critical race theory. It accepts that racism is built-in to our society. It is systemic. It is only every individual, white or whatever, as a member of American society that is complicit to what extent they may be in racism and responsible equally, as an equal member of society, for rectifying that. America is responsible for its past though individuals may claim they are not responsible for the past action of their ancestors.

 

[TheParser]

Any thoughts on how to remedy a White's complacency in the matter?

I suspect that the overwhelming majority of today's Caucasian Americans do not feel any guilt whatsoever, for they have not done anything that merits guilt.

On the contrary, Caucasian Americans for the last 60 years have gone all out to make up for the discrimination that non-Caucasians suffered in the past.

If anything, today's Caucasian Americans should be immensely proud of their unprecedented generosity and grace. And, I believe, they ARE (justly) proud!


P.S. It would be really nice if they could be shown some gratitude!

 

[CaughtInThe]

the OP starts a lot of race threads and tries (really, really, really) hard to suppress what has and is happening in our country.


wonder why that is.

 

[code1211]

Article here. I think it's clear that eventually, if not currently, the way we are supposed to think is that an individual White person is indeed complicit in racism.

Any thoughts on how to remedy a White's complacency in the matter?

Your premise is empty and you assertion is corrupted by propaganda and deception.

I have never known a person that was a slave and have never known a person that was a slave owner.

Your beliefs on this are entirely disconnected from rationality in any form and are beyond the scope of any reasonable consideration.

You are arguing that the future causes the past.

 

[Visbek]

Article here. I think it's clear that eventually, if not currently, the way we are supposed to think is that an individual White person is indeed complicit in racism.

Any thoughts on how to remedy a White's complacency in the matter?

 

[Irredentist]

Article here. I think it's clear that eventually, if not currently, the way we are supposed to think is that an individual White person is indeed complicit in racism.

Any thoughts on how to remedy a White's complacency in the matter?

All white people are complicit in white supremacy, because all white people profit directly from that system, which is geared specifically towards their interests, at the expense of non-white persons, regardless of whether they actively support white supremacy or not.

 

[Helix]

Today, I got up, and the first thing I thought about was how white I am. I checked 23 and me, and, sure enough, I'm still as white as a cue ball. I'm as white as a teenager trying to do the running man at a dance after a football game in 1991. I'm as white as a middle aged woman flicking a Marlboro out of the window of a station wagon. I'm so white that if I worked at a drywall factory, I could show up naked to work and disappear. It just isn't fair for some reason. And it isn't fair that I can't figure out why it isn't fair. Being white is hard.

 

[Napoleon]

All white people are complicit in white supremacy, because all white people profit directly from that system, which is geared specifically towards their interests, at the expense of non-white persons, regardless of whether they actively support white supremacy or not.

Such a claim is predicated on viewing history through a binary lens that is factually untrue.

 

[Irredentist]

Such a claim is predicated on viewing history through a binary lens that is factually untrue.

White supremacy benefits white people, by definition, and white supremacy is the historical and contemporary reality in which we live.

 

[Napoleon]

White supremacy benefits white people, by definition, and white supremacy is the historical and contemporary reality in which we live.

On what are you basing the later claim?

 

[AGENT J]

The use of skin colour to define a group's collective identity can be used negatively or positively depending on the context of who is using it.

this proves you have no idea what CRT is

 

[AGENT J]

CRT!!!!!!
RUuuuuuuUUUUUuuun!!!!!


anger GRRRRR!!!!!
communism GRRRRR!!!!

 

[Atreus21]

Article here. I think it's clear that eventually, if not currently, the way we are supposed to think is that an individual White person is indeed complicit in racism.

Any thoughts on how to remedy a White's complacency in the matter?

Are half-whites half-complicit? Or is one drop of white blood complicity?

How dark do you have to be to avoid complicity? Might be a good time to open a Planet Beach franchise.

 

[Rickeroo]

I can't believe the amount of denial going on with these responses. Then again it does explain why some Whites still vote democrat.

Am I correct in saying "Whites are not complicit in racism"?

Whites are off the hook then? Are you kidding me?

I don't believe that for a second. Whites are indeed on the hook.

 

[Rickeroo]

Are half-whites half-complicit? Or is one drop of white blood complicity?

How dark do you have to be to avoid complicity? Might be a good time to open a Planet Beach franchise.

You bring up a good point about mixed race. As laws become more race-based, it will have to be worked out legally as to what one's racial makeup entitles or restricts them to.

 

[Atreus21]

You bring up a good point about mixed race. As laws become more race-based, it will have to be worked out legally as to what one's racial makeup entitles or restricts them to.

And you're okay with that? You think it's a good idea that laws are race-based?

 

[Rickeroo]

And you're okay with that? You think it's a good idea that laws are race-based?

Absolutely not. Were it up to me, I'd ban governmental identification of race.

Race-based is simply the direction the country is going in.

 

[Deuce]

You bring up a good point about mixed race. As laws become more race-based, it will have to be worked out legally as to what one's racial makeup entitles or restricts them to.

"as laws become more race-based?"

What?

 

[CaughtInThe]

I'm as white as a teenager trying to do the running man at a dance after a football game in 1991.

 

[Napoleon]

I can't believe the amount of denial going on with these responses. Then again it does explain why some Whites still vote democrat.

Am I correct in saying "Whites are not complicit in racism"?

Whites are off the hook then? Are you kidding me?

I don't believe that for a second. Whites are indeed on the hook.

For what exactly?

 

[CaughtInThe]

check out the threads recently started by the OP. me thinks there is a pattern...

• This one
• Something about CNN and race
• Big cities and black areas and Aunt Jemima and Juneteenth
• Affirmative Action
• Complains about CNN talking about race
• Critical Race Theory
• Texas' win against CRT
• CNN and NBC and race
• Whites/All Lives Matter
• CNN article about race
• White/Black income
• Race rhetoric in the press
• Asians and race

 

[Irredentist]

On what are you basing the later claim?

The ongoing white dominance of political and economic power, the social preeminence of white cultural values and traditions, and the relatively poor conditions in which segregated non-white communities live, compared to their white counterparts.

 

[Napoleon]

The ongoing white dominance of political and economic power, the social preeminence of white cultural values and traditions, and the relatively poor conditions in which segregated non-white communities live, compared to their white counterparts.

Why does the first half of that mean anything other than an indicator of the fact that white people are the majority of the population in a society built on western, i.e. white, civilization? As for the second half, there’s no accounting for the self-segregation we see in society today.