Pretty Sure This Counts

Why don't you address these questions rather than just resorting to some kind of insinuation that I'm a bigot or something?

Identity politics were made to divide the proletariat. The left shouldn't be relying on them. It's not strengthening the movement.

I was one of these "other white people are annoying/oppressive/whatever" guys a good while ago before it was in the media. But it's a incorrect notion that only white people are inherently the oppressors, or that all of them are. Regardless of whether or not that is the message being pushed, it's certainly being the one heard.

And it's ridiculous how white women can sit there and point the finger at all white men, for privileges that they also enjoy. Almost every single white woman I've seen participating in that kind of finger pointing was definitely more privileged than me. Most of them are rich, accessorized to the maximum, driving nice cars, going to parties. Meanwhile I wear used dickies and a couple of t-shirts and do absolutely nothing for sheer lack of money. I ride the dirty bus. And because of this narrative, I have black people come up to me, unprovoked, to accuse me of being racist, or a bigot, or "like Donald Trump"(that especially pissed me off). I literally don't talk to other people.

I have previously been told in the past by black people(not strangers) that I was an "honorary black guy" (whatever that means), again unprovoked. It's blatantly obvious to me that I am not a bigot in that regard. But I am accused of it by people who know nothing about me except that my skin is white. And you have people who'd argue that's not racism, because they mistake institutional racism with regular racism. I've never been accused of being a misogynist.

My main qualm with this article is that somehow "white men" specifically aren't allowed to say n-----, and then less so b---- and c----. Are black men allowed to say all three? Are white women allowed to say the former? If so, well then you've got a problem in coherence and logic. If not then we've got a problem in the way the message is being presented.

Identity politics, and slurs, while we're at it, should not be a focus of the left beyond a desire to liberate the chains of the oppressed. And that's not what's happening now. Now everyone is suspicious of each other. And reactionaryism is rampant. Because the narrative that has been pushed is not one that minorities need to be treated as equals, but also that white men specifically are the cause of them not being equal. The rich are the cause of that.

/r/LateStageCapitalism Thread Parent Link - i.redd.it