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What are We Doing to White People?
yewtu.beI talk about the rising tide of racial hatred against White people that some are refusing to acknowledge is happening. Six minutes of this sixteen minute video is a compilation of what people are saying about White people online. Take a look for yourself, and ask yourself: where is all of this going? We can take a peek into the future by examining what is going on in this cultural climate: segregation and hatred of White people, sanctioned by government and law. You can shout all you want that such policies are remedial in nature, but that does not make it so. It is not true that people of color don't have the power to discriminate against White people. It's just that we are taking advantage of our newfound cultural power and change in social dynamics to propagate this falsehood while engaging in active discrimination. The schoolyard bully often says "I'm not bullying you" as he does just that. We're going backwards. "History doesn't repeat but it often rhymes."
Youtube is a hellsite of reaction.
That's just prejudice agai st people with pale skin which could ve any number of ethnic groups. Racism is part if a whole structural system that undergirds the economic reproduction of society. In this context "white" doesn't actually apply to an ethnic group, but to an ever-changing and amorphous group that is contiguous with economically dominant within any context in which it finds itself. This is why different ethnic groups and individuals move in and out of 'whiteness' as the economic paradigm requires. We are seeing this now as second and third generation children of South and central American immigrants are beginning to move into "whiteness." Yes whiteness does, generally, have some phenotypes and behaviors associated with it, but they are loose and contingent on the necessity if maintaining the white supremacist racial hierarchy, not some communal self understanding and organic development of a social group.
For example I am a white trans woman and an athiest from upstate new York. I have very little in common with a white cisgender christian man from east Texas. From an ethnic perspective I have more in common with a black trans woman in the same town as me. The one thing that binds me with the white dude in Texas is the relative dominance we have economically in society as "white" people. As a socialist I want to see the end of that dominance hierarchy.
Even more confusingly if they were in Europe they would have been considered white the whole time. It's one of the weird things about America that they think Spanish people aren't white