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June 23, 2018
The Oppression of White America
Michael Harriot
White people are oppressed.
Stop laughing. Its true.
In recent years, a narrative has formed and spread among the masses that asserts that white people in America are being subjected to reverse racism, ridicule, public scorn and discrimination. Before attempting to examine (and ultimately dismantle) this preposterous hypothesis, we should acknowledge all the ways in which this premise has manifested itself in mainstream society:
In October 2017, a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard revealed that 55 percent of white Americans believe there is discrimination against white Americans. More Americans agree than disagree that white people are under attack in this country, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Numerous studies have shown that racial resentment was the overriding factor for people who voted for Donald Trump.
Anecdotally, there are cases like the recently approved White Civil Rights rally coming to Washington, D.C., sponsored by the same activist who organized Charlottesville, Va.s Unite the Right march; the rise in claims of reverse racism; and the main refrain in the white national anthem: Not all white people.
Not to mention the white-tears-induced furor over people of color who blatantly discriminate against the Caucasian masses by using heinous racial slurs like wypipo, colonizer andno, this is not a jokethe actual word white:
https://twitter.com/JoshDenny/status/997604506522140672
https://www.theroot.com/the-oppression-of-white-america-1827018691
White people are oppressed.
Stop laughing. Its true.
In recent years, a narrative has formed and spread among the masses that asserts that white people in America are being subjected to reverse racism, ridicule, public scorn and discrimination. Before attempting to examine (and ultimately dismantle) this preposterous hypothesis, we should acknowledge all the ways in which this premise has manifested itself in mainstream society:
In October 2017, a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard revealed that 55 percent of white Americans believe there is discrimination against white Americans. More Americans agree than disagree that white people are under attack in this country, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Numerous studies have shown that racial resentment was the overriding factor for people who voted for Donald Trump.
Anecdotally, there are cases like the recently approved White Civil Rights rally coming to Washington, D.C., sponsored by the same activist who organized Charlottesville, Va.s Unite the Right march; the rise in claims of reverse racism; and the main refrain in the white national anthem: Not all white people.
Not to mention the white-tears-induced furor over people of color who blatantly discriminate against the Caucasian masses by using heinous racial slurs like wypipo, colonizer andno, this is not a jokethe actual word white:
https://twitter.com/JoshDenny/status/997604506522140672
https://www.theroot.com/the-oppression-of-white-america-1827018691
June 22, 2018
Should we tell him?
I think shit wasn't so fucking maddening, the jokes would write themselves...
Should we tell him?
June 21, 2018
We should never lose sight of the fact that Trump is a coward and a bully...
Who appeals to other cowards and bullies by punching down on the defenseless and depicting strangers as an existential threat.
He wants us to forget that America is a nation of strangers who have come to our shores. He wants to make already fearful people think of children as a deadly menace.
We must always remember that bullies and cowards are defeated when everyone stands up to them and their cowardice is exposed.
June 21, 2018
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/fox-news-greg-gutfeld-media-of-exploiting-plight-of-kids-separated-at-border-to-make-trump-look-evil/
Hey, Greg, sometimes a tree is just a gawd damned tree...
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/fox-news-greg-gutfeld-media-of-exploiting-plight-of-kids-separated-at-border-to-make-trump-look-evil/
June 20, 2018
This Wednesday seems particularly egregious, doesn't it?
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