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Trump vows to fight 'anti-white feeling' in US. His allies have a plan
(www.reuters.com)
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The real problem is the zero-sum mentality underlying the Conservative movement under Trump. Everything is a contest, and when the other side wins, your side loses. There is no room for competing views about America, views in which we all benefit. Any policy which doesn't directly benefit their side must be harmful. There must be in-groups that include them, and out-groups that include people they disagree with.
DEI, if done right, recognizes the benefit they people of all backgrounds can bring. There's no inherent discrimination against white people, but rather an acknowledgement that we can all benefit from diverse viewpoints. Sometimes you have to go out of your way to find those people, because the "system" may not be tuned to finding them.
Trump, though, cannot acknowledge that there can be policies that benefit everyone. There are winners and losers, and he sees himself as the ultimate winner. He will do whatever he can to make sure he stays winning - and it might be more important that his perceived enemies are seen as losers.
While that’s true, the real real problem is that facts don’t matter, science is relative, and corporate news is fundamentally incapable of countering the tidal wave of garbage.
It's capable. The reach of the platforms is enough. They're just not interested in doing so (sometimes because they are involved in pushing the misinfo to begin with)
I think it’s more to do with being subservient to their republiQan owners.
DEI?
Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion
But DEI is not used in that way. Almost exclusively used against whites and Asians who randomly count as white now.
Give one example. Against Asians who count as white?? Is that a new QAnut thing?
Yes
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/letterstotheeditor/article/lowell-west-portal-abortion-19434014.php
A mostly Asian school is not "diverse", apparently
wrongoooooo, honky
honky noun hon·ky ˈhȯŋ-kē ˈhäŋ- variants or honkie or less commonly honkey plural honkies also honkeys offensive —used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a white person
What's your point, my fellow cracker?
Just imagine this conversation, but s/cracker/gook
Would that be acceptable?
Yeah I'm not Southeast Asian so I can't be dropping that. I am however, a white guy, you cracker fuck.
If a member of your own in group is being ridiculous? Hell yeah it would be
White is not an in group, lol
I'm sorry to break this to you, but aren't being oppressed because of your skin colour.
But you're in luck! There still are other tyrannies that affect people of all colours, even us whities!!
I'm being disparaged because of my skin color right now
My friend, you are not. It's your reasoning that's causing the dunking. As I said I'm also white, so I can say this with certainty. Your point would be worthy of disparagement no matter what colour you were.
Okay but seriously, let's see if we can work through this.
Do you have much exposure to people of colour? This isn't meant as a put-down, but I remember thinking like you did before acquiring some lived experience (and doing a lot of processing). I knew a few people of colour, and felt like racism was a thing of the past. I had a kind of "colourblind" view of racism that completely disregarded historical and actual power imbalances.
This neutral view of racism can feel logical and comfortable; it has a kind of pleasant algebraic symmetry to it, so I can see the appeal.
You're being disparaged for being a downright homonculus who lacks basic critical thinking skills. Calling you a ghost person is just pointing out that fact.