So one one hand we have a bunch of opinion pieces by largely conservative writers and organizations. Making broad generalizations and using one-off examples like Brett K to extrapolate to the entire country.
On the other hand we have the president of the US persistently tweeting and demonizing people from different countries. Very specifically labeling those people or countries.
I am a white guy. I have felt, and feel, nothing but advantage from being a white guy. I walk down the street, into stores, in restaurants and get treated with nothing but respect.
How is your experience? Do you know a single white person who's been personally oppressed or demonized due to their color?
I'll remind you that white men make up 95% of Republican Congressmen. White men run like 80% of the Fortune 500 companies. How is that even possible if there's a war on us?
Some of the examples I would pull.....
Presidential candidate Barack Obama said of working class, white voters in 2008, “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Hillary Clinton castigated half of Donald Trump supporters as “a basket of deplorables” who were “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it.”
Sarah Jeong, New York Times Editorial Board:
“####### f***ing white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.”
It’s “kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.”
I’m “just imagining being white and waking up every morning with a terrible existential dread about how I have no culture.”
“Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically only being fit to live underground like groveling bilious goblins?”
“Have you ever tried to figure out all the things that white people are allowed to do that aren’t cultural appropriation? There’s literally nothing.”
“The world could get by just fine with zero white people.”
Professor George Ciccariello of Drexel University in Philadelphia, “was” in the words of CNN “dreaming not of a white Christmas, but of a white massacre.” What were Professor Ciccariello’s words? “All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide.”
Don Lemon, a CNN anchorman, said, “We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them.”
Steven Clifford, former King Broadcasting CEO, said, “I will be leading a great movement to prohibit straight white males, who I believe supported Donald Trump by about 85 percent, from exercising the franchise [to vote], and I think that will save our democracy.”
Teen Vogue, a magazine targeting teenage girls, wrote, “Not only is white male terrorism as dangerous as Islamic extremism, but our collective safety rests in rooting out the source of their radicalization.”
Actress Gabourey Sidibe, also on “The View,” said: “Older white men are a problem, y’all, for everyone. We’re all at risk.”
a mod has to step in and edit the phishing thread title. It's almost hilarious.
