Is it productive to repeatedly remind white people of how privileged they are?

[Men Without Waves]

123. convert a meritocracy buff to a meritocracy critic instead

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It depends on how ignorant the person is you're addressing. If real ignorant, it might take the kind of savy King and Mandela advocated. If you think we don't need conversions out of the ranks of austerity freaks (including the poor ones), think again. Dwelling on the old hegemony pattern might be mentally denying a really big dust bowl headed for anglos and previous Afro-American achievers...which few of us really tried to analyze til it started hang'n round close to home.

Who's the goat and who's the scaper is relative; transposing scapegoat status to the poor as opposed to minorities is an established fact in modern "meritocracies." Check out the anti-austerity demonstrations in Europe. ACORN supporters were aware of this. As long as Americans of whatever race want to BE the TV stereotypes, and are only concerned with getting the stuff these "models" they put in front of our noses get, there will remain IMO the archetypal human sacrifce factor in play behind the marginalization of whatever human demographic. Look at the mindset Powell defaulted to, and his son. If you want the right to support Koch bros politics, I say join the secessionists, cause the nation's supposed to be one of PEOPLE, not corporations. Citizens United was unconstitutional and every bill passed via big corporate money gone to PR should IMO be rescended once there's an amendment.

IMO what stayed the same amidst human phenomena on Earth for a long time was the psychological/societal "need" for scapegoats. There has been change, but change hasn't taken over the whole ball game. Like I say, the goat/scapegoat roles are relative in modern "meritocracies," but they're still around. The relativeness is supposed to indicate some kind of progress, but it's no kind of definition of progress. It's not the progress toward ending poverty that King advocated.

If you wanna prove Euro privilege to yourself, read "Open Veins of Latin America." It'll blow your mind as much as "The Butler."

If American citizens don't examine meritocracy together...and a little revolutionary anthropology together...yeah, we'll for sure arrive in that dust bowl that won't hit Germany and China so bad...all together. http://www.iep.utm.edu/girard/

But then you have the significant separation of N vs S hemisphereic wind currents (Fukishima). Yes, this happens naturally.

My white vote counts? Why did I have to create a ruckus in Nov complaining my touch screen was registering a Pub when I was touching a Dem? Meritocracy.