Tulsi Gabbard accuses Black lesbian Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot of "anti-white racism"

[Caliman73]

75. No such thing.

Whenever someone says, "Anti-White racism" or "Reverse racism" they show that they are making a bad faith argument OR they are incredibly ignorant and stupid.

Racism is both the belief that one's race is inherently superior to another AND the structural power to enforce that superiority through practice (laws, customs, traditions, etc...). We can all have racial bias, racist beliefs, prejudices, and we can discriminate. Racism however, as a practice, involves attitudes and power.

Now, Mayor Lightfoot certainly has authority in Chicago as the mayor, BUT the power structure in society still firmly rests within Whiteness. Mayor Lightfoot can certainly be argued to have engaged in unfair discrimination. Though I personally don't think that encouraging more diversity by advantaging journalists from historically marginalized groups for one day is really a significant discriminatory practice. Obviously, if she makes it an ongoing thing, then there needs to be more discussion about that.

I fall into the camp of people who think Gabbard is just doing what many "former liberals" do when they are found to be wanting within liberal circles. They veer hard right with respect to identity. There is little, more lucrative than siding with the White power structure to combat the scourge of marginalized people trying to bring awareness to the struggle for equality. They love, or at least loved Dave Rubin, a gay man arguing how intolerant the left is ... or Candace Owens, a Black woman, arguing how "Democrats have Black people on the Plantation". Gabbard is hoping they will love her for attacking Lightfoot.

I will say that Lightfoot's tweets are pretty poorly expressed. She could have made the observation better by saying that while progress is ongoing, there is still a dominance of White media, and that needs to be addressed. She could have pointed to the diversity and announced her wanting to give more diverse experiences more prominence on this day. Of course anything that she would have said with respect to this topic would have drawn outrage from right wingers. Then some liberals would see the outrage and said, hmm there may be something valid to that, and criticized her anyway.

So, bottom line though, anyone using those terms, "Anti-White racism" and "Reverse racism" in the United States, is making a bad faith argument and should be duly ridiculed.