Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

[HiPointDem]

228. i think i understood what you said just fine. i don't think you made an argument. rather,

you made an assertion -- lots would change on day one if whites suddenly saw the error of their ways.

I specified if whites "couldn't perceive blackness" for a reason, which was that if that were the case, they couldn't discrimate on the basis of blackness either negatively *or* positively. i wanted to know what would change on day 1 in that case.

you repeat what you already said: things would change, enormous opportunities would open up. again, i ask -- what?

i understand the concept of white privilege. i also understand how theodore allen's original formulation has been eviscerated of its historical and class analysis and been turned into the more simplistic and much less politically useful "how whites are complicit in maintaining institutional racism by denying blacks the same considerations for opportunity, success, and failure, that they enjoy themselves."

and that's par for the course in mainstream discourse in the USA, because there's a concerted effort *to* eviscerate all but the crudest of class analyses from public consciousness.

Which disappears the ruling class altogether and presents us with the fairy story that if only you and you and you and you would just accept/understand/repent of your white privilege, the millenium would be upon us.

Well, it won't. But it is a useful mechanism to continue racial divisions by new and even more devious means. For the rulers, I mean.

and, as can be seen in this thread, sends people chasing after needles on the heads of pins like "who has it worse, a straight white neuroatypical dirt-poor hunchbacked male in mississippi or a gay black personable dirt poor sexy dirt-poor welfare mom in alabama"?


PS: Whatever you may think, I'm not playing a game. I'm attempting to participate in a discussion about something I think is pretty important. But my position is not inside the framework of the current "dominant narrative." Ergo, people operating inside that narrative, whether at the left pole or the right pole, are going to be hostile toward it on the basis of their *assumptions* about what I mean.

Well, such is life.