Quote: (02-11-2017 06:12 PM)Kona Wrote:
Quote: (02-11-2017 06:00 PM)AlphaRN Wrote:
``When someone makes the "get over slavery" comment, they are now blaming black people for their own guilt over slavery. Or, they are some white supremecists/racist that just wants to stupidly spew hatred every chance they get.''
Interesting. However, do you realize the ancestors of the majority of white Americans came here after the Civil War? So why would a majority of white Americans be guilty over something they had no hand in?
Ask some white people. I don't know.
The 10% of black kids at Yale have no where near the power of the 72% of white kids. What other reason would there be for changing the name?
Quote: (02-11-2017 06:00 PM)AlphaRN Wrote:
Also, without making an excuse, can you name another nation on Earth (not white) in which ethic minorities have it as easy as the majority? You act as though this is a strictly American phenomenon. I would say the average black american has it far easier in American then the average Mayan decedent has it in Mexico.
I act as though it is a strictly American issue because we are talking about Yale and America. America does have that whole "All men are created equal" thing which I guess has different meanings to different people.
Is this the "go back to your country" argument coming on? Its already thrown around in this thread. Black people and a lot of other minorities are in their country now, and are staying, so certain people need to get over it.
There is no reason to name other countries, are whatever, because we have America just as much asnevryone else.
The idea that minorities have it a lot worse in other countries, so stop bitching about it being bad in America is another argument that I just consider stupid.
Aloha!
Is it still stupid if it's true?
It's not just that minorities have it worse - far worse in other countries - but that they demand some kind of special entitlement upon entrance and residence for let's say 50 years. Gratitude is lost on the current culture.
Now perhaps there is reason for this - justification is another argument - if you consider the Irish, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, numerous different ethnic Arabs and Africans, etc and what they did to ensure their were best adapted to their situations in the "new country.
(In the Arab situation we made the mistake of requesting to be considered white on the demographic methods in seeking better treatment, but that's now reversed considering the current racial and cultural climate. No want wants to be white, but give it time and it wont just be "white Hispanics" but white Asians and white Africans who wil be thrown in the "white category.")
Instead of mafias persay, we now have advocacy groups. Obviously none of the people who came here in the last 100 years plan on going home. Generations later, you become entrenched. The tensions caused by "diversity" however do NOT GO AWAY. Each group will continue to play them up to benefit themselves to the max and it's what's causing the racism and guilt.
Now minorities in other damn well have it far worse. Try being a gypsy in Europe - Rumania and Bulgaria specifically. Try being a croat in Serbia.
How about Japan? Even half Japanese - "haifus" as they are called are treated like dirt. Imagine how Koreans, Indonesians or any pacific Islander would be treated. "White pig go home," doesn't just apply to the whites.
This is I think is Weambulance's point to some extent. Here, we are actually so scared of "racism" and any past wrong doings that we bend over for the white guilt exploitation brothels.
You can bet your ass the Japanese sure aren't when chinamen come around because they feel bad about the rape of Nanking. How about the Mongols?
They don't show any special treatment or apologies toward Iraqis or any Persians, despite plundering Baghdad and setting back the Islamic world for hundreds of years. They aren't rolling out the carpets for anyone who descends from Herat or the area despite killing
over 1.6 million people just in that city.
An understanding of how vicious history is leads me to a kind of reactionary anger.
I'm personally tired of people trying to guilt my white half into some sort of sack cloth and ash ass kissing. My Armenian half has plenty of cards to play. I'm out of any guilt for my white half to feel.
Get the fuck over slavery people, because my ancestors have suffered the same, if not more. . If you bring it up, I'm likely to ignore your arguments and the people who bring it up as a beating tool.
Now in Kona's case, I see his point as well. The white guilt incels will never be over slavery. They need something to feel bad about.
Consider these types. They feel so privileged - and they damn well are in that they are going to Yale. They need to alleviate that guilt somehow in order to feel better about themselves because they have no real identity in life, no any purpose. Nothing to make them feel worthwhile.
At least sincere displays of repentance for privilege and their whiteness make them feel better and gives the African American studies departments some bones.