Evidently, all white people
are racist, white supremacists because of how unfair and biased things are nowadays. Here's more from the same individual as earlier, though this first bit wasn't for me directly:
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If white people had done their job, we wouldn't have Trump or the Christian Identity, Neo-Nazi, white supremacist militias and all the white male lone wolves, heavily armed and alienated from a reality that isn't all white."
I responded to this as I did the other one, noting parallels to the policies and ideas regarding Muslims discussed by Trump, whom this person rather openly loathed. After noting these similarities and problems of casting such a broad net over a group of people, I received this response:
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I think it's pretty clear that, in a system in which they were advantaged, white people as a whole did not take seriously the requests, suggestions or demands by people of color to change the laws so that people of color would be protected from racist violence. Read about the history of the campaigns to get anti-lynching laws enacted. If you can show me a mass movement of white people who insisted that these laws be enacted and didn't rest until they were, then I will eat my hat.
Your position -- that I'm blaming an entire race for actions of individuals -- rests on a denial of systemic racism, which is a system in which the political, economic, social, cultural, educational, and justice system was designed to benefit white people. Not "people" but white people. White people as a whole did not worry about violent white supremacists. Some individuals did and do, but as a whole, white people did not. Today, there are more white people who are recognizing the threat of white supremacy, but there is still a lot of outright denial going on.
Your main interest seems to be in wringing some kind of absolution of "white people" from me."
Amusingly, I never made any comment regarding systemic racism at all, much less denying it. As an aside, I did respond to the challenge to name whites who sought to aid blacks, noting the efforts of Eleanor Roosevelt and others in the 1940s and why they got where they had. As of yet, I haven't received any more responses as of yet--perhaps this individual is wolfing down their hat, though somehow I doubt that.
This had come up earlier but in light of all else, it's pretty laughable:
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I think your response to what I wrote is the impulse that leads people to make charges of reverse racism, which is basically what you did by quoting that thing about the boots on the neck."
Somehow it's
my impulses that lead to people charging reverse racism after I am literally textwalled into oblivion with this condemnation of white people.
Clearly my bad.
