And why exactly do you “hate the popular view of Jimmy Carter as ‘Mr. Nice Guy’”? You don’t seem to have a coherent, rational argument about, well, anything.
Then consider yourself non-white, and problem solved.
No right-thinking person could object to a statue of Lemmy (who alas, is now a historical figure).
…and he LOVED himself some Nazi paraphernalia.
My view is I just want to be left alone and stop being lumped in with Mayflower people whose ancestors enslaved people. Maybe I’d be less angry if people stopped telling me that I’m exactly the same as some WASP whose family dates back to the 1600s here because my complexion is a similar shade, and as such, I’m equally as responsible for their sins as their descendants are. I would really just like to be left alone and for society to calm down. I also resent being alive in this time. If I didn’t feel marginalized, I’d probably be more coherent and less angry.
You hang out with the wrong ppl.
Do you get this sort of reaction in real life, or just on the internet?
Also, as a white man, I declare you to be responsible for the state of my bathroom. And you should be very ashamed.
The thing about white male privilege is that a lot of white males aren’t particularly privileged. What if you’re a poor white man who was molested and beaten as a child, for example? Are you more privileged than a rich black woman who has never been mistreated in her life?
Or what if you’re a white male but you’re gay, or have autism or Down’s syndrome? Arguably being female might make you even less privileged, but you’re hardly part of the “privileged class”.
Besides, being privileged doesn’t make you a worse person. Privilege is only bad when it comes with entitlement. There’s plenty of very kind white males, and nasty people of color and women.
Now think the minorities and women who, as a group are objectively more marginalized in terms of power (elected positions), wages, high-ranking positions, and job opportunities than white males are as a group. Are they not supposed to be angry about that? To pretend the reality is that race and gender don’t make a difference when we know from various studies that they do? To stop trying to change society so they do have equal opportunities?
Holy crap. I am so sorry this is happening to you. I am of a similar shade, but for some reason, I am left alone and have never been told that I am “equally responsible” for the sins of the white race.
These people who are telling you these things; does anyone else in your vicinity see them, or is it just you seeing them? Or are these just voices in your head? Or are you just imagining what hypothetical people might hypothetically say to you?
Oh. My mother’s side of the family came to this country when a shadow fell across the land and the potatoes grew no more.
My genealogically cousin has determined that my paternal grandfather entered the country illegally to avoid bring drafted for the Russians in World War One. His ticket was to Argentina which his brother reached (thus my Spanish speaking cousins).
I also have no direct family connection to anything which happened in this country before the Civil War, and my people did not have the economic clout to cause much grief since then.
That does not mean I cannot support people with old family grievances. The issues are not my fault but I will take them as my responsibility. Because I am neither selfish nor frightened.
Don’t be the type of person who perpetuates problems through lack of empathy.
Visit Pittsburg.
If anyone deserves a statue, I’d say Mr. Rogers does…
Why do you feel that allusions to white privilege, or to historical figures having some questionable records on human rights issues, are some kind of attack on you or attempt to make you a boogeyman?
Longstanding white racial domination and bigotry against other races, and the consequent privileged status of white people in most white-majority cultures, are just historical and sociological facts. Acknowledging those facts is not intrinsically an attack on white people.
For somebody who’s gone on record on these boards as a self-proclaimed passionate supporter of historical veracity and a strong opponent of attempts to deny history, you sure seem awfully squeamish about other people referring to parts of history you don’t happen to like.
You know why.
Bullshit.
Those are among the local calls from tiny groups that I mentioned.
There is no general call for the destruction of every monument to Roosevelt and the typical American could not tell you who Stuyvesant was to win a bet.
I would rather be that person than be a sucker who is allies with people who hate him.
Local calls grow into national ones very quickly in this revolutionary fervor, and with social media to help fuel the angry in different states.
Thr Crawford statue was damaged by a vandal that was too cowardly to identify himself and left no call to action to ensure it was not repaired. There was no call by any group to damage Crawford’s likeness.
You are really grasping, here.
They can. However, so far none of your examples have demonstrated any such movement.