Your delusion is on full display. I can't recall each incident you've referenced. Maybe you're right on all of them, but I have my doubts. The problem is every one is automatically (with great enthusiasm too) labeled an act of racism. Some are, some aren't. That's why each "potential one" should be dealt with on its own. Handling them case by case would be the logical way to go. But our media has NO desire for that. You're just like them. Ready, FIRE, then aim.
We all know why the media does what they do too. To keep us divided. Two of your hero's are perfect examples. They should have been MEN and publicly apologized to the Lacrosse players. They know if they would have done that, it would have possibly diminished some of the power they have had. They knew there was no more money and attention to be grabbed, so like the gutless cowards they are, they cut and ran.
Did you ever say what happened to them was wrong? If you have any decency at all, you did. It's also a very weak, pathetic attempt by you to label conservatives as being on the wrong side. Especially when every level headed person knows white liberals are generally more racist than conservatives.
Accusing me of delusion is easy. Offering any evidence of that whatsoever is not.
Many, many people on the Left do indeed rush to judgment, and quite often.
I rarely do. People on the Right do, too, but here's the difference: The Left consists of numerous marginalized populations who have absolutely and undeniably been victims of injustice historically. It is completely reasonable to anyone with a shred of empathy and decency that people who bear the generational scars of that oppression would be on high alert against it continuing to happen. When they rush to judgment, it's often a defense mechanism. It costs nothing to hear them and it is easy to draw the line between their possibly emotionally compromised response and how it all plays out in a court of law. It's similar to how poor white people bristle at the notion of white privilege because in many other ways, they definitely don't have privilege. They're not interested in hearing academic reasons for why they absolutely do have white privilege when their lack of financial privilege is a far greater force in their lives.
Take this recent tragedy involving Nolan Wells' drowning. A group of friends goes boating. The one Black friend among them disappears and is later found drowned. Everyone else involved is white and has offered no explanation. Not 'he fell overboard,' not 'we were all swimming and he disappeared.' Nothing. They didn't even raise the alarm and call for help. They just returned without him. Why wouldn't Black people think something was suspicious? Why wouldn't
you? Should the surviving friends already be sentenced to prison? Of course not. Should there be an investigation? Absolutely. Have such situations always resulted in investigations? Absolutely not. Sometimes the only reason there's an investigation is because people speak up loudly, demonstrate, protest. That's what happened with Trayvon Martin. That's what happened with Ahmaud Arbery.
It doesn't feel good when I hear Black people cite Nolan Wells' death as evidence that white people aren't safe. A difference between you and me, though, is that I don't take that personally and I understand what leads them to that conclusion. And why should it feel good? Why should my comfort be prioritized in that instance? Y'all, though? I bet those friends were drinking and I bet y'all are quick to conclude that that is the simple, full explanation for why Nolan drowned and he was underage so he deserved it. And Black people ranting about white people is further evidence of white genocide.
You know who I'm not as good at empathizing with? Lower income white people. The majority of people I've worked with and been surrounded by most of my adult life have been BIPOC. And as a white person, I feel like I have more authority speaking about the experience of being white, and it's pretty great, as far as being largely immune to a lot of the injustices the people I'm around the most experience. I need to get better in that area. I
AM getting better in that area.
^LOL Typed all of that without having read beyond the first few sentences of your post. Didn't know I was countering practically everything you accused me of, but I did. Let's see... what did I miss? Jesse Jackson is one of the greatest civil rights leaders this country has ever seen. And he was wrong in the Duke lacrosse case. I've never cared for Sharpton. It's pretty douchy of you to call them my heroes.
The racism of white liberals is a frequent topic among my white liberal friends. That's how we get better. It is, however, a racism born of good intentions poorly executed. It's accidental. It's the kind of racism we acknowledge, apologize for, and do better moving forward. Conservative racism? Fighting to preserve slavery. Ending Reconstruction. Black codes. Jim Crow. Poll taxes. Lynchings. Fighting to keep schools segregated. Redlining. Profiling. "The Southern Strategy." Rolling back voting rights. Questioning President Obama's citizenship. Questioning Michelle Obama's gender.
Handling everything on a case by case basis is appropriate in its place... but acknowledging trends has its place, as well.
