"Whiteness Evolved"
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Its because in the eyes of the radical left only white people can be racist, the fact that two Indian boys have racially abused four black girls does not compute so they have to do all sorts of mental gymnastics and distort reality to make sense of it.
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Yeah... so?
How else do you think Diane Abbot is going to get the PM's job?
Have you a link to a source that doesn't require signing up and giving out any data, though?
It's just human nature at it most primal to pick on people who are perceived to be weak and unable to defend themselves. It's obvious the Indians feel threatened due to there own lack of moral character and understanding of life hence they have to put up a physical or spiritual barrier against others that could potentially weaken there already fragile image of themselves. The colour part is just unfortunate that it stands out like a sore thumb making it easy to tar all who look similar with the same brush. Personally I thought dark skin looked appealing , certainly compared to my pink skin.
Psychology lecture over.
Psychology lecture over.
It's a NYTimes piece, this is the "journalist's" opinion. No other source I'm afraid, but copied the whole article into a spoiler below.
Two 17-year-old boys accused of harassingfour African-American middle schoolgirls — using racial slurs and urinating on one of the victims — are facing charges including bias intimidation and lewdness.
The incident, which took place during an Oct. 18 high school football game in the New Jersey suburb of Lawrence Township and was partly captured on a video that circulated on social media, involves a cast of characters that has given some observers pause: Police say the boys are of Indian descent.
While it’s tempting to see the reported ethnicity of the boys suspected in the assault as complicating the story and raising questions about whether the assault should be thought of as racist, I look at it through a different lens. Instead of asking what the boys’ reported racial identity tells us about the nature of the attack, we should see the boys as enacting American whiteness through anti-black assault in a very traditional way. In doing so, the assailants are demonstrating how race is a social construct that people make through their actions. They show race in the making, and show how race is something we perform, not just something we are in our blood or in the color of our skin.
At first blush, this reported assault sounds nauseatingly familiar, like the run-of-the-mill American racial harassment that has always been common but has become increasingly revealed thanks to videos shared on social media. The boys’ actions resemble those of people who feel empowered to act out their resentment against nonwhite people who are deemed out of place, confronting them with hostility or slurs or calling the police. The people patrolling what they see as their spaces are often — but not always — white. The Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson calls areas that are policed in this way “the white space,” even though the spaces in question are officially public. The experiences of black people accused of these purported infractions have acquired a panoply of names that capture the absurdity of facing such hostility while innocently carrying out everyday activities: driving while black, barbecuing while black, walking while black, sitting at home while black. The encounters often end with violent — too often, fatal — outcomes.
In the New Jersey incident, the heritage or skin color of the boys suspected of the assault doesn’t matter. What matters is that they were participating in this pattern and thus enacting whiteness in a very traditional way.
The way in which whiteness is labeled has changed over time, with relevant categories morphing from Teutonic to Saxon to Anglo-Saxon to Caucasian to Nordic to WASP to white to white-ethnic as the society changes, as politics change. As tempting as it is to assume that races are boxes that people fit in once and for all, that kind of thinking is too simplistic, too lazy to help us understand American history and culture.
Since the 1960s, some Americans from the Caribbean and Latin American have expressed that they don’t fit into the traditional black/white binary. At this point, we should wonder if or how other Americans might find places in the black/white traditions. Will Latinos of various skin colors come to consider themselves black or white? What about Asians of various skin colors?
To find out, we should observe their actions. Or how they perform race.
Multicultural New Jersey holds worlds enough to carry national, if not global significance — my state makes people from everywhere into Americans. Here, people of South Asian descent, like people from many other backgrounds, have skin colors that vary widely, from very dark to very light, and women are often subject to aggressive colorism. Further, they cannot be lumped together by class. The business pages of local newspapers feature powerful, wealthy men of South Asian descent and, at the same time, rush-hour NJ Transit trains include people of South Asian descent among the masses of working stiffs commuting to and from New York City.
For a clue on how American racial identity is evolving, it may be less useful to look to clues like complexion, and more to the performance of identity. The performance here — flinging around the N-word, with the befoulment of urination — holds an answer. One potent way of being American, no matter where you or your parents are from, is enacting anti-blackness. And traditionally, acting out anti-blackness has meant acting white.
The incident, which took place during an Oct. 18 high school football game in the New Jersey suburb of Lawrence Township and was partly captured on a video that circulated on social media, involves a cast of characters that has given some observers pause: Police say the boys are of Indian descent.
While it’s tempting to see the reported ethnicity of the boys suspected in the assault as complicating the story and raising questions about whether the assault should be thought of as racist, I look at it through a different lens. Instead of asking what the boys’ reported racial identity tells us about the nature of the attack, we should see the boys as enacting American whiteness through anti-black assault in a very traditional way. In doing so, the assailants are demonstrating how race is a social construct that people make through their actions. They show race in the making, and show how race is something we perform, not just something we are in our blood or in the color of our skin.
At first blush, this reported assault sounds nauseatingly familiar, like the run-of-the-mill American racial harassment that has always been common but has become increasingly revealed thanks to videos shared on social media. The boys’ actions resemble those of people who feel empowered to act out their resentment against nonwhite people who are deemed out of place, confronting them with hostility or slurs or calling the police. The people patrolling what they see as their spaces are often — but not always — white. The Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson calls areas that are policed in this way “the white space,” even though the spaces in question are officially public. The experiences of black people accused of these purported infractions have acquired a panoply of names that capture the absurdity of facing such hostility while innocently carrying out everyday activities: driving while black, barbecuing while black, walking while black, sitting at home while black. The encounters often end with violent — too often, fatal — outcomes.
In the New Jersey incident, the heritage or skin color of the boys suspected of the assault doesn’t matter. What matters is that they were participating in this pattern and thus enacting whiteness in a very traditional way.
The way in which whiteness is labeled has changed over time, with relevant categories morphing from Teutonic to Saxon to Anglo-Saxon to Caucasian to Nordic to WASP to white to white-ethnic as the society changes, as politics change. As tempting as it is to assume that races are boxes that people fit in once and for all, that kind of thinking is too simplistic, too lazy to help us understand American history and culture.
Since the 1960s, some Americans from the Caribbean and Latin American have expressed that they don’t fit into the traditional black/white binary. At this point, we should wonder if or how other Americans might find places in the black/white traditions. Will Latinos of various skin colors come to consider themselves black or white? What about Asians of various skin colors?
To find out, we should observe their actions. Or how they perform race.
Multicultural New Jersey holds worlds enough to carry national, if not global significance — my state makes people from everywhere into Americans. Here, people of South Asian descent, like people from many other backgrounds, have skin colors that vary widely, from very dark to very light, and women are often subject to aggressive colorism. Further, they cannot be lumped together by class. The business pages of local newspapers feature powerful, wealthy men of South Asian descent and, at the same time, rush-hour NJ Transit trains include people of South Asian descent among the masses of working stiffs commuting to and from New York City.
For a clue on how American racial identity is evolving, it may be less useful to look to clues like complexion, and more to the performance of identity. The performance here — flinging around the N-word, with the befoulment of urination — holds an answer. One potent way of being American, no matter where you or your parents are from, is enacting anti-blackness. And traditionally, acting out anti-blackness has meant acting white.
^^^ this
the whole narrative of redefining "racism" so that only white people can be racist and only men can be sexist and therefore SJWs/intersectional types can carry on being openly racist and sexist when targeting men and/or white people frequently poses conundrums that they then need some mental gymnastics to work around.
In their eyes racism just comes from white people therefore these boys of Indian origin are just perpetuating that evil whiteness.
Stuff like ancient Egypt gets dealt with by some revisionism whereby the Egyptians were black people and were later just displaced by arabs... all black people are descended from Egyptian "Kings and Queens" etc..
Also provides amusing headlines:
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When are we going to stop pandering to these regressive idiots and call them what they are?
Racists. End of. They've got a hate boner for white people and can frankly just **** off.
I don't care what type of racism it is, white vs black, black vs asians whatever...
Racism is racism and it's time to stop tolerating it. It's disgusting how these grotesque people are now trying to redefine the word so they can get away with being racist.
I'm sick of seeing it.
Racists. End of. They've got a hate boner for white people and can frankly just **** off.
I don't care what type of racism it is, white vs black, black vs asians whatever...
Racism is racism and it's time to stop tolerating it. It's disgusting how these grotesque people are now trying to redefine the word so they can get away with being racist.
I'm sick of seeing it.
No no no, don't you understand you can't be racist to white people... Goodness, did you even read the article?
Don't forget also NYTimes hired Sarah Jeong who had been posting all sorts of anti-white stuff on Twitter which were left up and yet whenever anyone changed the word white to another ethnic group and re-posted her Tweet it got immediately deleted. By attacking white people all of the time they are eventually going to create a backlash so I propose the ones attacking white people and trying to create such a backlash are the actual racists.
It's about privilege more than anything, Europeans were privileged to have the Christian church active and influencing them even if people declared themselves atheist they were/are still influenced by the goodness of the bible teachings, most other parts of the world didn't have this. The Reformation was a big part of it, the spirit of learning and discovering came from the christian spirit and teachings. That's what they are really attacking with these petty race baiting tactics. Divide and conquer.
But then it would be an unusual world without any conflicts or drama.
But then it would be an unusual world without any conflicts or drama.
Another racist incident, this reminds me of 80's/90's Britain.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/football/50212951
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/amp/football/50212951
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It is pretty ridiculous though don’t you think?
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Ah, **** it, then. Not interested.
I can... but I'm white, so it's allowed!
That was part of it... but having a **** load of decent fighters and weapons were generally more important, as were the lessons on conquering learned from Empires like Rome. Speaking of which, I believe the Romans stationed a few of their African regiments in Britannia during that conquest, so it wasn't purely a white privilege.
They don't, as much as some would enjoy to portray as some singular homogeneous blob with a hammer in sickle.
But normal, stable, rational news doesn't sell because it's "boring".
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I think https://www.nytimes.com/section/opinion beats https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfree in the race to the mental these days.
I remember watching an interview with Jackie Mason, the American Jewish commedian, years ago where he was attacking the ADL for keep demanding Mel Gibson apologise to the Jewish people for his film.
He said these anti-racist groups have to go around creating racism to stay in business. I think there is a degree of truth in this.
I do find a problem in the US is that a lot of them seems to think the world revolves around them, and anything outside doesn't matter.
I don't think these people attacking whiteness even realise they are attacking the whole of the white world, which is the same generalisation mind set that racists used openly many years ago.
He said these anti-racist groups have to go around creating racism to stay in business. I think there is a degree of truth in this.
I do find a problem in the US is that a lot of them seems to think the world revolves around them, and anything outside doesn't matter.
I don't think these people attacking whiteness even realise they are attacking the whole of the white world, which is the same generalisation mind set that racists used openly many years ago.