I am white. I am liberal. I have a self-preservation instinct and have not felt that to be threatened on the basis of having white skin.
As far as racial issues go, I'm not big into believing in the concept of racial threats. If there are more brown people than white people in this country, that really doesn't bother me. There are good and bad people of all colors, and there are people of all colors who take color far more seriously than they should.
I don't deny that there are racists of all colors, and I don't think the existence of racists on both sides justifies extreme action or learned helplessness by either side. Our ability to problem-solve major social issues should not be limited by the most insufferable of us.
I don't pretend that racial conflict will ever fully be resolved, but that the honor is in the pursuit of perfection rather than the attainment of it. We may never achieve perfect coexistence, but we should be constantly fighting back against forces that want us to give in to tribalistic drives to conquer left over from our hunting-gathering ancestors. We can be better than that.
“have not felt that to be threatened on the basis of having white skin.”
People blatantly say that they want to exterminate you and all white people, and you still don’t feel the threat. That’s because you’re r-selected. You’re like the tapir in 2001: A Space Odyssey who doesn’t notice that this time the monkey-man approaches with a bone club in his hand.
I don't identify people as "my brothers" based solely on us having similar pigmentation. That's tribalistic nonsense.
I feel toward them the same way I'd feel toward any human beings who are executed on the basis of their religion. I could literally not care less what color they are. Murder is murder.
Even after we explain to the leftist that we have figured out his virtue signaling manipulations, he still tries to signal his colorblindness, his superiority to tribalism, and how he has philosophically surpassed his extended racial family. This one is either stubbornly Machiavellian, or maybe authentically low IQ, socially defective, or delusional.
I guess I can answer.
I am white. I am liberal. I have a self-preservation instinct and have not felt that to be threatened on the basis of having white skin.
As far as racial issues go, I'm not big into believing in the concept of racial threats. If there are more brown people than white people in this country, that really doesn't bother me. There are good and bad people of all colors, and there are people of all colors who take color far more seriously than they should.
I don't deny that there are racists of all colors, and I don't think the existence of racists on both sides justifies extreme action or learned helplessness by either side. Our ability to problem-solve major social issues should not be limited by the most insufferable of us.
I don't pretend that racial conflict will ever fully be resolved, but that the honor is in the pursuit of perfection rather than the attainment of it. We may never achieve perfect coexistence, but we should be constantly fighting back against forces that want us to give in to tribalistic drives to conquer left over from our hunting-gathering ancestors. We can be better than that.
“have not felt that to be threatened on the basis of having white skin.”
People blatantly say that they want to exterminate you and all white people, and you still don’t feel the threat. That’s because you’re r-selected. You’re like the tapir in 2001: A Space Odyssey who doesn’t notice that this time the monkey-man approaches with a bone club in his hand.
Yes, the manipulators don’t realize that they’re being manipulated. Narcissists are juicy targets for con artists.
I don't identify people as "my brothers" based solely on us having similar pigmentation. That's tribalistic nonsense.
I feel toward them the same way I'd feel toward any human beings who are executed on the basis of their religion. I could literally not care less what color they are. Murder is murder.
Even after we explain to the leftist that we have figured out his virtue signaling manipulations, he still tries to signal his colorblindness, his superiority to tribalism, and how he has philosophically surpassed his extended racial family. This one is either stubbornly Machiavellian, or maybe authentically low IQ, socially defective, or delusional.
...boy, I honestly don't even know how to respond to that. You got me.