Big fan. Watch your clips on YouTube often. You add much needed context and nuance to discussions.
Question for everyone-
Why is it that we have come to labeling- associating emptions or a state of being with race? Emotions and being human are not race based. There might be nuanced reasons for people of different backgro…
Big fan. Watch your clips on YouTube often. You add much needed context and nuance to discussions.
Question for everyone-
Why is it that we have come to labeling- associating emptions or a state of being with race? Emotions and being human are not race based. There might be nuanced reasons for people of different backgrounds to have experiences that provide us with emptions or responses, but is there any evidence that there actually is “white or black fragility”?
The Head of the Joint Chiefs recently testified before congress and made a point that he wanted to understand “white rage.”
I do not believe in “white or black rage.” I don’t think such things exist. I believe that humans can feel rage. I believe there might be some societal reasons for subgroups to have such emptions, but I fundamentally disagree that such emptions can be race based.
It gets on my nerves when this kind of stereotyping occurs. I understand your use of the
“flip side” in some of these debates, such as the use of the term “woke racism.” To fight stereotyping and labeling, you must delve into the terminology that has been generally accepted, I suppose …
But terms like “white fragility” or “white privilege” that connotate negative associations with a racial group are bunk in my opinion. Such terms should be called out for what they are- ridiculous.
Such terminology is nonsense, and I wish it would be relegated into a category of laughable obfuscation where it belongs- but for now we are stuck with it.
Having to subject ourselves to this makes us all a little dumber. But here we are. Stuck in stupid land.
"Having to subject ourselves to this makes us all a little dumber. But here we are." #truth
It's a concept we continue to define in the most nebulous ways. If there was no social or economic advantage associated with it, who would care about "race"?
But damned if the *human* race didn't buy into it, hook, line and sinker.
500+ years and running.
Ironically, the youth give me (some) hope. Even though they talk a lot about race, clearly they are not obsessed with it in their personal lives.
Hey Glenn and John.
Big fan. Watch your clips on YouTube often. You add much needed context and nuance to discussions.
Question for everyone-
Why is it that we have come to labeling- associating emptions or a state of being with race? Emotions and being human are not race based. There might be nuanced reasons for people of different backgrounds to have experiences that provide us with emptions or responses, but is there any evidence that there actually is “white or black fragility”?
The Head of the Joint Chiefs recently testified before congress and made a point that he wanted to understand “white rage.”
I do not believe in “white or black rage.” I don’t think such things exist. I believe that humans can feel rage. I believe there might be some societal reasons for subgroups to have such emptions, but I fundamentally disagree that such emptions can be race based.
It gets on my nerves when this kind of stereotyping occurs. I understand your use of the
“flip side” in some of these debates, such as the use of the term “woke racism.” To fight stereotyping and labeling, you must delve into the terminology that has been generally accepted, I suppose …
But terms like “white fragility” or “white privilege” that connotate negative associations with a racial group are bunk in my opinion. Such terms should be called out for what they are- ridiculous.
Such terminology is nonsense, and I wish it would be relegated into a category of laughable obfuscation where it belongs- but for now we are stuck with it.
Having to subject ourselves to this makes us all a little dumber. But here we are. Stuck in stupid land.
"Having to subject ourselves to this makes us all a little dumber. But here we are." #truth
It's a concept we continue to define in the most nebulous ways. If there was no social or economic advantage associated with it, who would care about "race"?
But damned if the *human* race didn't buy into it, hook, line and sinker.
500+ years and running.
Ironically, the youth give me (some) hope. Even though they talk a lot about race, clearly they are not obsessed with it in their personal lives.