I understand America’s history of poor treatment of minorities but what has caused many liberal white people to casually talk as if they aren’t white.

Some examples:

  • A friend has an eastern European neighbor move in. He says he’s glad they are that instead of American white.
  • Feeling they are individually responsible for what their ancestors and/or rich and politically affluent white people did in the past.
  • Acting as if white people anything is bad.
  • Making jokes at their own expense but won’t dare say the same thing to another ethnicity.

I don’t mean this post as a worm-brained right wing or political discussion, but just seeking to understand this odd internalized behavior I’ve seen recently.

Rule 3: Avoid controversial topics (politics or societal debates come to mind, though we are not saying not to talk about anything that resembles these). There’s a guide in the protocol book offered as a mod model that can be used for that; it’s vague until you realize it was made for things like the rule in question. At least four purple answers must apply to a “controversial” message for it to be allowed.

I really don’t mean this to be about politics but about how people act!

Edit Thanks for the report @[email protected] I tried not to frame this in a controversial manner.

  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comOP
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    21 hours ago

    I think you’re taking my point in a direction I clearly didn’t mean nor want.

    Honestly we feel like the only country to my knowledge that continues to imply the common person should feel guilt for what their ancestors or government did.

    The treatment of minorities in the country in the past and today continues to be poorly. But that’s not my doing.

    It doesn’t feel like ripping on your own race but everyone ripping on white people and somehow white people internalizing it in some odd way.

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      The fix for this problem you’re describing will come when white folk no longer have entrenched privilege across the vast majority of our lives.

      Going “Eh, my ancestors did it not me, so it’s not my problem” is white privilege. Because white privilege and racism are still problems for folk who aren’t white, who deal with systemic racism at every level of their lives, despite it having nothing to do with them or their actions. The only people who get to say “Eh, it’s not my problem” are white folk, and white folk doing that is a basically why racism continues to remain entrenched.

      That’s why some people are uncomfortable. Because they struggle with the unfairness, and don’t want to become complacent about it

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        20 hours ago

        They’ve gotten rid of their guilt by putting it all on muslims now. The far right candidate who is similar to trump almost won. They aren’t feeling guilty about ww2