Evidence of White Guilt normalized in our country...

Aug 23, 2017, 12:40 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/us/ordinary-white-supremacists/index.html

The title of the article is

White supremacists by default': How ordinary people made Charlottesville possible

By default means "through lack of positive action rather than conscious choice."

This clearly implies that if you are a person that does not stand with the counter-protesters or voting democrats (those taking positive action to resist racism) then you are a white supremacist.

Here is an excerpt...

..But the tragedy that took place in Charlottesville this month could not have occurred without the tacit acceptance of millions of ordinary, law-abiding Americans who helped create such a racially explosive climate, some activists, historians and victims of extremism say.

It's easy to focus on the angry white men in paramilitary gear who looked like they were mobilizing for a race war in the Virginia college town. But it's the ordinary people -- the voters who elected a reality TV star with a record of making racially insensitive comments, the people who move out of the neighborhood when people of color move in, the family members who ignore a relative's anti-Semitism -- who give these type of men room to operate, they say.

What is that saying? Honestly. It's saying that racial hatred and all the associated violence is happening because of normal white conservatives. So if a normal white conservative deserves blame, then I'm sure they should feel guilt.

That was the twisted formula that made the Holocaust and Rwanda possible and allowed Jim Crow segregation to survive: Nice people looked the other way while those with an appetite for violence did the dirty work,

Here was was just implied that white conservatives who don't disagree with Trump on race issues are similar to genocidal murders, only they sit back and let the more violent people do their work. I'm not even going to argue that this isn't true, I'm just making the point that this is clearly what is being said.

Many of the white racists who marched in Charlottesville were condemned because they openly said they don't believe in integration or racial equality.
But millions of ordinary white Americans have been sending that message to black and brown people for at least a half a century.

Here we go, now we are being told that MILLIONS of whites have been sending the same message of the KKK, Neo-Nazis and White supremacists for over 50 years. Surely, he doesn't intend any white people who disagree with this to feel any GUILT over this. [sarcasm for those who missed it.]

This white separatism continues today. Whites move out so often when nonwhites move in that sociologists have a name for the phenomenon. It's called "racial tipping."

Now he eschews the need to be specific and just says "whites" are doing this. See the transition? Starting with an extreme minority of radicals and working to gradually implicate "millions" and now just "whites" in general. Can you not all see what is going on here? This is a CNN article being presented as NEWS.

The angry white men in Charlottesville were just being open about their white supremacy.
Anyone want to deny what he is saying here? He is clearly saying that the only difference between the white supremacists and "millions" of whites is that the supremacists are the only ones being honest about it. Please fully consider what that means.

Certainly he won't become more explicit in who he thinks really deserves the blame and guilt for the actions of a few hundred social pariahs...

If you want to know why those white racists now feel so emboldened, it may help to look at all the ordinary people around you, your neighbors, your family members, your leaders.
But first, start by looking at yourself.

Oh well I guess he feels the social climate is right to let the cat out of the bag right now. He's not talking about racism... he's talking about white people being racist... by DEFAULT.

White guilt is obviously real.

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but this article brought to mind a quote.

“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”

Evidence of White Guilt normalized in our country...

Granted things have changed drastically since the 60's,

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So no.

The thing is, you're presenting an either/or when it should

Regarding emphasis, it is an either/or.

Sure, but that really does belong in its own context

I get that. But I hear often that things aren't "that bad"

There are other human attributes that give more advantage

And because your grandmother won't move when a

Yeah but because she had a birthmark on her face she could

Oh women definitely get a raw deal too. And it's usually

It's far too easy to whine about things...

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