Why I care about people who see racism everywhere

by StephaneLaliberte 14 Replies latest jw experiences

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  StephaneLaliberte

  Today, I was watching a TV show and a black celebrity in Quebec said that his latest incident of racial profiling was being asked questions by the police as he was walking in a quiet neighborhood at 2am while wearing a hoody. Then the other guest next to him validated his claim saying that she, as a white women, was never stopped like this by the police.

  I became very frustrated and agitated. Could they not see baseless this claim was? Any man, wearing a hoody, in a quiet neighborhood, walking in the middle of the night has very high chances of being talked to by the police. I’m a white male and I’ve been stopped multiple times for precisely this reason. Don’t you know what real racism is?

  I was so frustrated about it that I had to call a friend of mine and tell him. My friend agreed with me, that it was just a bad claim of racism, but, unlike me, didn’t get worked up about it. This made me wonder: Why do I care so much about this type of thing? Why get all emotional about it?

  I believe it has to do with my JW past. I was, and suffered at the end of, JWs accusing others based on some warped sense of superior righteousness. Having escaped this highly judgemental world that sees only the worst of people, I feel especially sensitive to anyone who, while proclaiming to be good, actually do harm by their words and behavior. JWs shun people and call it love. The “woke” place labels on people and ruin their reputations without proper basis and call it justice.
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  minimus

  You might be hypersensitive due to your past experiences. Try to move on. It doesn’t do you any good to let the witnesses continue to affect you negatively. Easier said than done but it’s the only way to move on.
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  StephaneLaliberte

  I think you're right minimus. Recongnizing this is my first step towards healing. :)
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  Anony Mous

  We are sensitive to it because it’s the same techniques a cult uses. There is a reason many thinkers on the right and in the center are labeling this movement a religion or a cult of personality. In the early 20th century it is Lenin and Marx and Trotsky and Stalin, today it is AOC and Kendi and Jones. But they are not much different to the Elders and the COs.
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  snare&racket

  Maybe accept that they have experienced a different life to you and see the world differently.
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  truth_b_known

  Fredrich Nietzsche predicted in the mid-1800s that utopian politics would replace religion. He was referring to socialism and communism. The first plank in those ideologies is make victims and racism has been a staple this way of thinking.

  Yes. There is racism. Yes. There are racist people. Calling someone or something "racist" should be done carefully.

  It is getting to the point that things are no longer about equality or equal opportunity. Now we here the phrase "racial equanimity" which is not about equal opportunity, but equal outcome.
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  MeanMrMustard

  Maybe accept that they have experienced a different life to you and see the world differently.

  Everyone experiences a different life. And I’m sure that someone that sees racism everywhere does, in fact, see the world differently. I just think they are objectively wrong for subjectively assigning racist intent to just about everything.

  https://youtu.be/Z-hgnST8tks
  
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  mickbobcat

  Blacks have been taught or trained by liberal idiots to whine and yell racism every time they are called for bad behavior. There is a reason black neighborhoods are shit holes. And its not the white guys fault.
  
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  mickbobcat

  Mustard, I would be suing the pants of the place. I know there are a lot of court suits being settled out of the press or fake news. People who don't have their heads up their ass need to sue every time the left gets stupid and they are being stupid a lot as of late.
  
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  WTWizard

  The whole thing was a scam intended to eliminate the white race and enslave the other two, right from the time they forcibly yanked blacks out of Africa to be exported to white lands and sold as slaves. Who profited from this? Not to mention, that was the first step to the global agenda.

  And now, we have all this theater about how black people are oppressed. Just look at how our schools are structured--all to teach people not to act "too white". And, what they take for "too white" is common sense and industriousness. What this teaches black people is to be parasites, and eventually they are going to eliminate the white race through "reparations" and violence. Once this is done, they will simply be rounded up and enslaved. Of course, by this time next year any appeal to logic, truth, or reason will be seen as "hate speech", further facilitating this process.

  Obviously, not a peep about Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X. Both would be nice for blacks to do more research on, if you can find originals of their works. And, despite that both were black, they are classified these days as "too white" for appealing to reason and truth. Instead, you have George SCUM-os writing the rules, and paying the government to enforce them so no one has the choice to disregard what is "too white" and simply do your best to advance your self and your race.