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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
It's the baseline. It's the standard. Everything else in this country is other, no matter when you got here. It's the shared ability to crush people based on their race for centuries, isolate them, ostracize them, and then turn around and be angry because you have never needed an identity based on race because you get to be seen as an individual in all things, and be angry about it.
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I think the idea that whiteness gets defined based on those who are excluded or oppressed is what makes it unappealing as an identifier. I mean, I'm proud to be Catholic (well, not all the time) or a Bostonian or American, but white? Who is proud of being white?
Which is my reaction to that article. At the end of the end, if you're embracing "whiteness" as your identity, you may want to look in the mirror and see if there is a racist there. The odds are pretty good there is.
It is amazing how little the politics of white identity has changed:
