It's easy to say that it feels like a psyop, but the levels of class reductionism - that is to say - the knee-jerk ridicule of intersectional shit or critical race theory stuff feels highly suspect. Like, you can't say white people are nerds (which they are) in a lot of anti-woke left spaces without harsh rebukes, and it seems really suspect to me. Is there a real fash pipeline in our midst? Are class reductionist white people that sensitive and defensive and... well... white to the point that they can't let go of their privilege even in the context of them being left?
At least in America - as a white person, you are white, first and foremost above every other identity.
Being a white person in America means being raised in white supremacy, due to it being a dominant cultural force. If you’re white, you’re most likely racist unless you unlearn that behavior.
Saying this makes white people angry, but honestly it’s not their fault they are racist, once again it is a behavior that has to be unlearned. Being steeped in white supremacy and racist ideas day in and day out through all of America’s institutions is unavoidable.
Being a leftist does not mean that you have unlearned racist behavior magically. This is where intersectionalism comes in to play. Being class conscious does not mean that you also gain a concept of anti racism and intersectionality overnight. You have to make a conscious effort.
It’s hard to make a conscious effort to unlearn racist behavior. You have to go out of your way to do it. Some people don’t take this step, and some go in the opposite direction completely and you end up with the strasserite/stupidpol types. Some don’t go that far, but even this site is not free of racism.
This is not an indictment on white people, and I realize this is probably offensive if you’re a white person hearing this, but America is to blame, not the individual. You have to make the effort.
Well said. I'm an old millennial/young gen X-er. I don't take offense to the statement, "If you’re white, you’re most likely racist unless you unlearn that behavior," because in my case (growing up in the Chicago suburbs), it's true. Unlearning racism takes self-examination and uncomfortable confrontations. Some of my classmates ran headfirst in the other direction.