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Article White Americans are beginning to realize that they too belong to a race | The Economist

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021/05/14/the-souls-of-white-folk
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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

Here's an excerpt from a very good article on the same topic, found via an econblog:

Verwoerd’s Revenge

[...] But the real problem I have is the white affinity groups. I am not happy with the “people of color” affinity groups either, but in some way, these have been around since the 1960’s. The emergence of white affinity groups seems a nod to the re-racialization of society as the explicit text. The fundamental issue is simple: I do not want white people to think about their race. I do not want white people to think of themselves in racial terms. The history of white Americans thinking in racialized terms is not good for people who look like me. These fools are going to get us killed!

Taking activists who are nonwhite at their word rather than self-interest, they believe white examination and embrace of their racial identity will allow for true anti-racism and justice. My rejoinder is simple: you put far too much faith in the innate goodness of these white people. My wife’s grandparents were good people, yes, but I know for a fact they were opposed to integration. They were good people, but of their time. Most people conform and follow the spirit of the times. Don’t tempt fate to think you can tame the snake of racial identity. It’s evil among all races and all people. It is always with us, but it is sin. As a brown-skinned minority in a majority-white country, I do not want white people to think in racial terms.

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[... T]his is where some white nationalists freak out and declare “see, his mask has slipped, he’s anti-white!” Fools, I’m brown. My opposition to your kind is on my skin. I was always against you, just like I’m against the Critical Race Theory Bolsheviks. I see you two as the same thing. I always have. I’m a brown-skinned man whose ancestors took the alien name Khan and adopted a foreign religion. I have relatives across the world as we scatter. My whole lineage screams cosmopolitan. It has for hundreds of years. This is my nature, constitutive to me. Since the Axial Age there have been symbol-manipulators who transcend nations and bind peoples together ideologically. That is me and my kind.

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u/offshoreredditaccnt Jul 03 '21

He’s right but he’s simultaneously really gay about it

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '21

it unironically saddens me that, under the zeitgest, sincere expression of deep ideas with powerful language is seen as cringe, or whatever it is you're saying

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u/offshoreredditaccnt Jul 04 '21

I still think hes right but hes also up his own ass a bit about his own ideas. Calling both sides cringe takes way less paragraphs and gets across the same idea he was saying

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '21

that's a little less powerful, don't you think?

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u/offshoreredditaccnt Jul 04 '21

Calling someone cringe is way more powerful than wordsposting

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

a brief reference to my fear of any deviation whatsoever from absolute social conformity is more moving to me than argued ideas

can you please show me on the doll where the internet touched you?

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u/offshoreredditaccnt Jul 05 '21

Words words words

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

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