Ugly Racist Thinking Is Now "Woke" -- And Showing Up In All Sorts Of Places Racism Was Previously Unacceptable
Guy named Christopher Rivas (American, with a Dominican father and a Colombian mother) comes right out in a New York Times "Modern Love" piece and says he broke up with his girlfriend because he "can no longer date white women." He makes it clear that it really had nothing to do with her personally:
It's because in today's hashtag-woke society, there is mad pressure to be hashtag-woke. To be aware of the implications of whom you're attracted to and why. Which means that in the eyes of others, the color of the women I date is a big deal. Like I'm the problem. Like I'm betraying my people if I date white women.But I was taught that we were all one people!
I see people watching me with a stink eye, noses turned up, as if they think black and brown people would somehow be better off if I dumped my white girlfriend. It's a lot of pressure. Along with each watchful eye, the whispers of, "Pick a side, Chris, pick a side," fill my already noisy mind.
...So here I stand, trying to be woke, and not dating white women, and feeling kind of bad about that. Because I'm definitely dating, and thinking that the decision to no longer date white women might not be my own, that any decision to choose a side doesn't help the whole hashtag-woke thing because how do we solve anything if we just separate and isolate? And also, I mean, a lot of white women are really cool.
Obviously white women are cool. All women are cool. Cool is such a simple word, not the word I want to be using right now. I don't just mean cool. (I probably shouldn't even be talking about dating or not dating white women. Ah, man, this isn't going where I wanted it to -- )
Anyway, this is me yearning, praying, journaling, writing, dialoguing, putting up a one-man show, wishing, trying to pick a side, wondering how to choose myself and trying to wrap my head around this, hoping that I'm doing woke right, because something just doesn't feel right.
A related tweet -- perfectly put:
52 years after Loving vs Virginia the New York Times finds common ground with StormFront.
— Flame Angel (@FlameAngel8) March 29, 2019
I can’t bring myself to understand why this guy’s dating preferences are newsworthy
Nicolek at March 29, 2019 10:43 PM
> Nicolek at March 29, 2019 10:43 PM
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Crid at March 29, 2019 11:53 PM
Specifically— The blog post *is* worthwhile, even if the sentiments described are too personal to be meaningful to the rest of us.
The SJW movement offends because it's practitioners presume that their interior lives are shining new light upon the world. Amy has a good & useful nose for this ludicrous presumption.
Crid at March 30, 2019 6:05 AM
This has been going on forever. Black and Hispanic guys often get heat from the women in their community if they date whites. This kid thinks that's a new 'woke' thing because he's a kid and doesn't realize that it's just women trying to reduce their competition.
More interestingly - I think he's outed his father as a prostitute.
Another interesting observation - when, how and why did the NYT's become a snootier version of Salon?
normy at March 30, 2019 10:12 AM
Racists obsess over "race". Why even notice "race"? Date whoever agrees to date you, as long as you both agree to date.
Kent McManigal at March 30, 2019 10:36 AM
This. And Amy does indeed have a good nose for this sort of nonsense.
The SJWs presume they are forcing the rest of the world (us) to face up to its subconscious shortcomings; that they are bestowing hard-won wisdom upon a benighted world.
Partly, this is immaturity. Upon discovering something, inexperienced folks presume they are the first to stumble upon this nugget of knowledge; that the ignorance of this knowledge or disregard for this knowledge by their elders is the reason the world is in the state it is, which is presumed to be terrible.
They presume their morality and scientific literacy is the height of human achievement and hold everyone, living or dead, to it, never understanding that, years from now, someone will hold theirs (and them) in similar contempt.
Younger Americans no longer look to their elders for wisdom and guidance. They look at their elders with barely disguised contempt. How could they have let the world get into this state?
Partly, we can blame the Baby Boom, who resisted growing older to the point of looking to their children for guidance on politics, fashion, and lifestyle. It's tough to respect a parent who refuses to dress like an adult and keeps trying to show you how cool he/she is by singing along to your music at top volume, calling it "my jam."
Conan the Grammarian at March 30, 2019 11:29 AM
Young people have always disdained their parents, wasn't it Mark Twain who said, "When I was twenty I thought my father was the biggest fool, when I was twenty five I was amazed at what he'd learned in five years"?
NicoleK at March 30, 2019 12:57 PM
The quote is apocryphal. Twain's father died when he was 11 years old. It sounds like something he'd have said, but it wasn't. Its first appearance in print was in 1915, whereas Twain died in 1911.
Besides, disdaining someone for not being up on the latest pop culture or being setting limits on your behavior is not the same as holding someone in contempt, which is, I fear, where we are with our generation gap(s) today.
Neither the older generations nor the younger ones seem to regard it as the older generation's role to provide wisdom and guidance. Instead, the younger generations gravitate toward populist figures who preach class envy, social divide, violence, and revolution. And the older generations pander to the younger ones, echoing those calls.
When the youth of St. Petersburg lost all faith in their parents and grandparents, concluding that those generations had brought the country to ruin, they rebelled and installed a regime based on the teachings of Karl Marx filtered through Vladimir Lenin. Have we set the stage for our own Red October?
Conan the Grammarian at March 30, 2019 1:35 PM
And you could do what I've been telling people to do for years. Tell the SJWs to get fucked.
Do not even validate their standards by suggesting that they even deserve consideration. They need to be told without ambiguity that they and their ideas are simply shit.
normy:
I'm reminded of "Dr." (who received his doctorate of divinity from his own non-accredited school) James David Manning, who claims that God has renamed Harlem as ATLAH (All The Land Anointed Holy...perhaps Dr. Manning should have pointed out that "Anointed Holy" is redundant), was an avowed enemy of Obama and could not stop railing against his Obama's mother, but having the unspeakable gall of being a white woman who married an "African in heat."
According to his mother and grandmother, the only kind of a woman who would have anything to do with black man (during the 50s and 60s) was a slut. This confused me at first, because obviously that doesn't speak well to black men (including Manning himself) if the only white women who could be attracted to them "was a floozy, was a sloozy," according to Manning, whatever a sloozy happens to be (slut + floozy?)
Then I realized that it was probably resentment from black women toward white women who were taking black men off the marriage market. Well, I keep hearing that black men usually prefer not to date black women and I keep wondering what makes black women so undesirable.
This is likely due to the fact that over 70% of black children (including girls) are born to single parent households, consequently, no one is modeling a healthy relationship and these kids are not learning how loving couples treat one another. Little wonder that black men are looking outside their own communities to and not looking to hookup within Dysfunction Junction.
Patrick at March 30, 2019 1:56 PM
"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." ~ Blaise Pascal
Who knows why we're attracted to the people we're attracted to? The reality is that you cannot mandate a law or social standard that dictates sexual attraction.
If mixing between the races is wrong, what do we tell a mixed-race child? That he's a moral monstrosity; a product of miscegenation? That we've made absolutely no progress since the '60s, despite all the marches, speeches, and desegregation efforts? That his parents are moral reprobates for having him?
Is that a road we really want to go down ... again?
Conan the Grammarian at March 30, 2019 2:23 PM
"Well, I keep hearing that black men usually prefer not to date black women and I keep wondering what makes black women so undesirable."
You named it on your last line Patrick. And it isn't black women in general. It is very specifically american black women. I could set you up with a very nice nigerian girl with none of those problems. But I understand you aren't interested.
Ben at March 30, 2019 5:43 PM
And it's not just black women. Increasingly white women in the US are struggling to find men willing to marry them. The black ladies just have it worse for now.
Ben at March 30, 2019 5:45 PM
Mr. Rivas is certainly no Profile in Courage.
Dennis at March 31, 2019 5:52 AM
Younger Americans no longer look to their elders for wisdom and guidance. They look at their elders with barely disguised contempt.
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I suspect the young have always done that. They're just more open about it these days, since the bar for good behavior keeps getting lowered.
Also, one big problem is, the elders who DEMAND respect from their adult children - as in, not just politeness but Deference whenever those adult children do something in their private lives that their parents don't approve of, are more likely to be the types of parents who are seriously intolerant. So their children have all the more reason to have contempt for them, whether or not they show it.
An example of how the Greatest Generation wasn't so great, for all their decorum and proper adult behavior (as I wrote in 2017):
I found it in a short juvenile nonfiction book on racism that I've been trying to track down since I saw it briefly in 2006. In all likelihood, when you think about it, it was written after 1985 or so - I can't imagine this sort of not-so-common sense being portrayed by a white person in ANY book on racism written earlier than that.
A white Southern woman, probably born in the 1950s, told how her mother was an impeccable lady and also “quite a racist.” However, the mother never said an unkind word about any person based on that person’s skin color, because “she was too much of a lady for that.” Even so, every time the mother and her daughter went shopping and had to talk to a black cashier or black sales employee, the mother used a tone of voice as if she were talking to a silly preschooler. So, wrote the daughter, (not verbatim) “she passed on her racist views to me without a single word being exchanged between us on the subject!”
lenona at April 1, 2019 9:13 AM
Why is this guy's dating preference relevant? Because a supposed adult broke up with his girlfriend due to peer pressure from racists.
markm at April 2, 2019 3:01 PM
All I was able to gather from Christopher Rivas's article in the Times is that he is racist.
That, or the New York Times is racist and forcing their contributors to try convince perfectly normal and good people that they are evil, for some reason.
Either way, it was a crappy read from a crappy company.
WakkaFlakka at April 5, 2019 1:19 PM
Oh, I forgot one more thing:
I was also able to gather from the article that Christopher apparently can't think for himself.
He said he "can't date white women anymore" because society has "WOKE" him??? This just roughly translates to, "I'm a coward".
Think for yourselves!!
WakkaFlakka at April 5, 2019 1:24 PM
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