Dear Keyboard Warriors Obsessed With “White People” (ON BOTH SIDES OF THE SPECTRUM)…
Whether you’re a white supremacist or fighting against white supremacy, I have bad (or good, depending on how you look at it) news for you…
“White People” cannot change. Because “White People” do not exist in the real world. “White People” only exist in your mind.
If you believe in “White People,” your thoughts are not grounded in reality, only in ineffective abstractions— therefore, you are doomed to remain ineffective and frustrated.
Only individuals exist. Only individuals can oppress. Not social constructs. Give up your magical thinking. If you or your community is being oppressed, be specific about who is oppressing you. Point to individuals or policies which oppress. We can work with specifics — specifics can effect change. Abstractions cannot. They are worthless.
If you cannot be specific, you’ll keep feeling frustrated your conception of “White People” isn’t changing. It cannot change.
It is not real.
1.] Your use of “White People,” “Black People,” and the obviously and blatantly wrong “Indian,” is simplistic slave language — taught by the oppressors (mostly the <1–2% of individuals who owned slaves in early America) to alienate minorities, obfuscate and destroy your family heritage and divide America into homogenized Groupthinks. Because you use it, it’s still working.
[(See: The Invention of Caucasian, Whiteness & Blackness.)] {
2.] “White People” do not exist. Only individuals exist. You do not need permission from any abstraction to effect change in your community.
3.] If you believe “White People” exist, you have been duped by ideology — you are probably a pawn in someone else’s game.
Refine your thinking. Open your eyes.
Only individuals exist. Only individuals oppress.
Only individuals effect change.
Good post! The divisiveness needs to stop. As you pointed out, We are individuals.
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I got your point, but this can't be changed or stopped.
First of all is the fact that we as human beings we have the tend to judge other people based on their appearance. It's a survival instinct. Sadly racism is the history heritage
Very interesting stuff. I'm not totally convinced though. While I agree that dividing people by race is wrong, there are physical differences between people from different places. Isolating (at least the majority of) one population from another for thousands of years will inevitably cause differences to emerge, and we may not know the extent of them. We can see examples in nature of other species diverging after being isolated, and we know that it happened in humans at least with skin color and bone structure. Why could the same not happen with, for example, psychological traits? I should clarify that I'm not attempting to justify any form of racial discrimination. We're all still human and there's no good reason to discriminate based on race. Even if we had a logical reason for racism, it would be impossible to know where to draw the line between one race and another if you take into account mixed-race people and minor differences in characteristics of people from the same general geographic area (such as between north and sub-Saharan Africa, Nordic countries and Southern Europe, etc.)
Indeed, but we didn't divide people by the color of their skin before the 19th century. "Racism" is a new human invention. People were seen as part of their heritage. Where they came from. There is nothing wrong with being proud of your heritage, of your familial or cultural traditions, and keeping that alive. It is more than just skin deep. I think it's delusional, though, to base your opinions solely on the amount of melanin in one's skin.