It's not uncommon to read on these boards and across the socio media environment the phrase "white guilt". And, usually, white guilt is used as a pejorative intended to describe how white Americans are being manipulated into embracing legal and cultural dictates that are considered, by those who refuse to be entrapped by white guilt, as bad for society.
Is the opposite of white guilt, white fear?
Being a southern black man, I can't answer this question for you. On my side of the tracks, white guilt, fear or whatever, never comes up for discussion.
I think this mostly applies to white & black relations and not to white & Islamic, Latino women like me. Even as a minority I haven't encountered white guilt. Maybe it is just a media thing.
White guilt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_guilt? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_guilt?)
Quote from: Murder_me_Rachel on March 09, 2016, 02:23:37 PM
By contrast, my parents aren't racist, but they don't really care about the folks on the Northside or Westside who are born into poverty and are born with two strikes against them. It isn't that my parents dislike these people, they just don't really care. So, white antipathy.
Interesting. I could say the same about some in my family and in the hood I grew up in.....except they're all black, some born in poverty and some with a lot more than two strikes against them. So my question is....is there a such thing as black antipathy, fear or guilt?
Quote from: thelakelander on March 09, 2016, 02:34:13 PM
Quote from: Murder_me_Rachel on March 09, 2016, 02:23:37 PM
By contrast, my parents aren't racist, but they don't really care about the folks on the Northside or Westside who are born into poverty and are born with two strikes against them. It isn't that my parents dislike these people, they just don't really care. So, white antipathy.
Interesting. I could say the same about some in my family and in the hood I grew up in.....except they're all black, some born in poverty and some with a lot more than two strikes against them. So my question is....is there a such thing as black antipathy, fear or guilt?
Yes. But there's typically a significant difference in power.
Together white guilt and black victimization/infantilization is extremely dangerous and detrimental to American society.
Quote from: Murder_me_Rachel on March 09, 2016, 03:49:31 PM
Quote from: whyisjohngalt on March 09, 2016, 02:25:17 PM
I think this mostly applies to white & black relations and not to white & Islamic, Latino women like me. Even as a minority I haven't encountered white guilt. Maybe it is just a media thing.
Mind= BLOWN
I think Galt is pulling your leg MMR.
Quote from: spuwho on March 09, 2016, 08:44:01 PM
Quote from: Murder_me_Rachel on March 09, 2016, 03:49:31 PM
Quote from: whyisjohngalt on March 09, 2016, 02:25:17 PM
I think this mostly applies to white & black relations and not to white & Islamic, Latino women like me. Even as a minority I haven't encountered white guilt. Maybe it is just a media thing.
Mind= BLOWN
I think Galt is pulling your leg MMR.
In the sphere of Internet jacksssery, it's called trolling.
Silly concept and can be counter-productive in a society trying to move forward and not backward in terms of racial equality. It certainly does exist and in many forms and as a white person I have witnessed it several times. But it is not as if every white person, or even close to the majority of white people, who "play nice" with minorities are doing so simply because they feel obligated to do so.
MMR - do you mean apathy?
antipathy is "a deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion."
Maybe the scale is like this...
white guilt - white apathy - white fear
Donald Trump is the 'white fear' vote, right?
When we finally pull everything out of the morality talk track of the right its clear that 1) abortion does not matter 2)Homosexual marriage? not an issue. 3) Traditional marriage? Also, flexible.
The only thing that matters is "white identity politics," which seems to be fueled by fear.