I can attest to the lack of perspective of the young, wisdom probably varies, but the lack of perspective is pretty ridiculous. I think that is the biggest problem with “wokeness.” Being close with many “woke” white ladies who pride themselves on being “allies” of all kinds and there is a lot of pressure to be “nice” and virtuous because we have been socialized to only have value through supporting other people. It’s hard to see so much self flagellation.
For a long time, the majority of white people just really believed racism was over. Obviously that isn’t true. I think all the “good people” are overcompensating. White guilt is a powerful force, but sadly, I don’t think it actually does anything to make racism less. In some ways, like John and Glenn point out, those beliefs reinforce some deeply racist ideas instead of rooting out racism. I’m glad that the BLM movement showed that not all white people are secretly racist. That’s good at least. But from my perspective it seems to have amped up the noticing difference and a desire amongst the privileged to spend a lot of effort obsessing over it.
I think I’ve said this before, but it is hard for me (and probably a lot of other people) to distinguish what is real from what is a performance or a grift or a narrative. I find it really frustrating. I, of course, want to be “a good one” I just have no patience for the virtue signaling and intolerance it seems to require. And especially don’t have the patience for all the “Identities” that I’m supposed to be constantly preoccupied with.
I can attest to the lack of perspective of the young, wisdom probably varies, but the lack of perspective is pretty ridiculous. I think that is the biggest problem with “wokeness.” Being close with many “woke” white ladies who pride themselves on being “allies” of all kinds and there is a lot of pressure to be “nice” and virtuous because we have been socialized to only have value through supporting other people. It’s hard to see so much self flagellation.
For a long time, the majority of white people just really believed racism was over. Obviously that isn’t true. I think all the “good people” are overcompensating. White guilt is a powerful force, but sadly, I don’t think it actually does anything to make racism less. In some ways, like John and Glenn point out, those beliefs reinforce some deeply racist ideas instead of rooting out racism. I’m glad that the BLM movement showed that not all white people are secretly racist. That’s good at least. But from my perspective it seems to have amped up the noticing difference and a desire amongst the privileged to spend a lot of effort obsessing over it.
I think I’ve said this before, but it is hard for me (and probably a lot of other people) to distinguish what is real from what is a performance or a grift or a narrative. I find it really frustrating. I, of course, want to be “a good one” I just have no patience for the virtue signaling and intolerance it seems to require. And especially don’t have the patience for all the “Identities” that I’m supposed to be constantly preoccupied with.