"All White People Are Racist": A Training Session For White Women
The truth is, as a survival measure, we all evolved to be "tribal" to some degree, whether we're black, white, newspaper editors, or people of a certain religion.
To say that isn't untrue or ugly.
But telling a whole room -- of mainly white women -- that all whites are guilty of racism? Not "all people engage in tribalism to some degree"?
That is about something. I see it as a way to have unearned power, to feel good about oneself by shaming white people as a group (a form of racist aggression), and to earn a bunch of money doing it, to boot. (Check out the lady's Paypal in the video below!)
Victimism -- it's an industry!
So we all know what we're talking about when we're discussing racism, a screenshot from the dictionary on my Mac:
A @LaloDagach tweet links to video:
@LaloDagach
"All White People Are Racist"I worry I'll never be this #woke.
That video:
"All White People Are Racist"
— Lalo Dagach (@LaloDagach) August 19, 2017
I worry I'll never be this #woke. pic.twitter.com/aLIkLKYX0J
Loved this quote from @YeyoZa:
@YeyoZa
I suppose this is what Google's diversity workshops look like
I saw a woman who looks black in that room of women she's talking to -- how comfortable is it going to be for her after the workshop?
This sort of supposedly anti-racist lecture actually serves to infantilize black people. It precious-izes them and turns them into objects of pity instead of people we see as equals and fellows at work and in our social world.
In other words -- looking back at that definition of racism...
...what she's doing is creating racism.
I remember seeing a bit of news on TV back in the 70s or maybe the 80s in Boston. The protesters kept telling this white dude he was a racist, he kept insisting he wasn't. Back and forth a couple of times.
Then he got fed up with their shit and said "You know what, fuck it, I am a racist!" and proceeded to go off on them.
Another instance of "you can make me care, but you won't like me when I'm made to care."
I R A Darth Aggie at August 19, 2017 6:20 AM
I learned recently that a friend had lymphoma and nearly died in her 20s. I feel terrible about that, because I hate that she had to suffer as she surely did. I've known her a while - so this lymphoma thing is now an additional detail about her. It's not the defining detail about her.
To make everyone think about racism against blacks all the time, and to make that a defining thing, does something ugly. I note this in the post. This serves to separate us by skin color, to make us think of skin color all the time, and makes black people objects of pity. I think that's truly ugly.
It's also the antithesis of the way I think most good people do their best to live -- as Martin Luther King advised, judging people by the content of their character.
Amy Alkon at August 19, 2017 6:24 AM
What in gods green earth is she wearing?? Even IF she wasnt spouting racist nonsense, how could she expect anyone to take what she says seriously when shes wearing nothing but pantyhose neck to toe?
Momof4 at August 19, 2017 6:32 AM
Amy, just so you know, the race-baiters will flat-out tell you that the dictionary is wrong.
For example, in this six-minute video by the butterfaced Franchesca Ramsey of MTV's Decoded, Franchesca Ramsey insists that racism must mean "prejudice plus power," even as she flat-out insists she's not going against the dictionary's definition, just going "a little deeper."
How does she arrive at this conclusion? She goes to the sociological definition of racism. Sociology, of course, is the study of group dynamics (not the individual, which is the purview of psychology), and defines racism as "a system of institutions of power and privilege based on race."
So, the black-people-can't-be-racist crowd arrives at the dazzlingly brilliant conclusion, "Duuuuuh, dat mean me can't be racist, cuz black peepul never have power in dah U.S. Ooooh! Me so smart!"
The reason that this argument fails, of course, is that in order to be an -ist of any kind, it merely requires you to be a believer in the aforementioned philosophy, not someone who lives under a particular system.
If I, as a believer in God, live in a government in which religion is outlawed, I wouldn't say, "I can't be a theist, because I live in a system of government that criminalizes religion. Theists aren't in power in this society."
If you knew someone in the U.S. who devoured the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, became a firm believer in communism, and was convinced that communism was the best form of government there could possibly be, and in countries where communism failed, it was only because communism wasn't implemented properly and if it were just done right, communism would succeed, and that the U.S. along with every other nation on earth should switch to a communist form of government, now, now, now, you'd say, without too much fear of contradiction, that person is a communist.
He wouldn't say, "Oh, I can't be a communist, because communists have never been in power in the U.S."
He's a communist because he believes in communism. He believes that he should be living under a communist government. I am a theist, whether I live in the U.S. or in a country where religion is outlawed, because I believe in God.
So, even if we accepted the premise that the sociological definition of racism is the only definition that applies, a racist doesn't have to be living in a racist society that benefits them. They just have to believe there should be a system of power and privilege based on race.
Patrick at August 19, 2017 7:25 AM
And as for Ashleigh Shackleford (the fatassed woman in the video), I wouldn't worry too much about her.
She'll be dead of food-assisted suicide soon enough.
Patrick at August 19, 2017 7:27 AM
Of course there's also the hoax that all black or brown people are the same for "diversity" purposes.
Radwaste at August 19, 2017 8:31 AM
This claim that blacks can't be racist is simply BS. Being racist means hating someone because of their race, whether you have power over them or not. For centuries, Europeans had racist ideas about Asians, but had no power over them--so by this new definition they were not racists. How about a truly racist white person living in China where he has 0 power--not racist by this definition. It gets truly absurd when you consider cities with a black mayor, black chief of police in a country which for 8 yrs had a black president and black head of justice dept.
No, racism is about hatred. The big problem with "all whites are racist" is not just that they are assuming internal attitudes about which they know nothing, but that they are claiming that mere membership in a group bestows guilt. This is worse than original sin, because at least that applied to everyone and you could atone for it. While it was certainly true in the past that there were legal structures that kept minorities down, please show me where these structures are still in place. SJWs insist that racism and sexism are ubiquitous, but this is just a cop-out that they can't point to any examples. In an encounter with a person with a gun, cops are MORE likely to shoot the white person (as a %)--it is just that these encounters with white criminals are much rarer. Furthermore, the belief that all white people have this magical privilege thingy would be news to the 50 yr old dude stocking shelves at Walmart or painting houses.
cc at August 19, 2017 9:37 AM
Most people are afraid of being called racist, even if the accusation is false. That's something that's got to stop.
Snoopy at August 19, 2017 11:02 AM
> a screenshot from the dictionary
The left defines what racism is, not the dictionary. That's why it makes no sense even to discuss it with them.
Snoopy at August 19, 2017 11:07 AM
> "All White People Are Racist"
So, we should all just withdraw to our own neighborhoods so that non-whites don't need to deal with our racism.
Snoopy at August 19, 2017 11:14 AM
I R A Darth Aggie;
Having been called "racist" just because I am white by people who don't even know me - and this has been going on for what seems like forever - I am just like the guy you mentioned.
OK, I'm racist; so what?
It doesn't help to argue with someone who is so dead set, and just won't see it any different, that you are white and white equals racist.
There is no cure for stupid. And those who call an entire race racist are stupid.
Just like Hillary calling Trump voters a basket of deplorables; we have reached the point that we don't care any more. Nothing we do to prove otherwise will change their narrow minds; so why bother trying to educate the uneducable?
charles at August 19, 2017 11:15 AM
"What in gods green earth is she wearing??"
Judging from the heft, apparently it IS god's green earth.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at August 19, 2017 3:57 PM
What a repulsive sack of protoplasm. She couldn't get laid at the pound.
vanderleun at August 19, 2017 4:51 PM
It is this attitude 'that whites are racist no matter what you say or do' that is causing most of the division in the US. The far left refuses to see it any other way, even though most don't see it that way.
A few years old but still useful.
"Americans consider blacks more likely to be racist than whites and Hispanics in this country.
Among black Americans, 31% think most blacks are racist, while 24% consider most whites racist"
But these views would never be shown in the media.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/july_2013/more_americans_view_blacks_as_racist_than_whites_hispanics
Joe J at August 20, 2017 12:55 PM
That's one of the things TaLynn Kel writes about on her blog. But her husband is white. If you believe all white people raised in America are racist, why would you marry one? Judging by some of her other blog posts on the subject, it appears that she married this guy for the sole purpose of taking all her anger at white people out on him. Seven years of this? I'd be screaming for a divorce! Or maybe he's afraid she'll always consider him a racist if he gives up on her and continue to call him one on her blog.
Fayd at August 21, 2017 9:28 AM
Guess she missed the lesson on "Know your audience." Also, why didn't all those white women get up and walk out? Rhetorical question, because I realize they didn't want to prove her point of "yep, all white people are racist." Eff her and the poor horse she rode in on.
sara at August 21, 2017 10:50 AM
"Also, why didn't all those white women get up and walk out?"
They want to keep their jobs. If you walk out you will probably be fired. . . . of course once they find a better job elsewhere that doesn't involve being hectored and belittled they will probably leave.
Ben at August 21, 2017 5:38 PM
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