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In reply to the discussion: A History of Liberal White Racism [View all]BainsBane
(53,016 posts)Of the Positivist conception of knowledge. It allows no distance between self and absolute "truth" and completely ignores how such ideas are about imposing hegemony over the subaltern. It invokes the veneer of truth in order to impose race, class, and gender-based power.
They declare Bravenak a troll because she posts an article from a highly-respected African American writer. That she has the audacity to care about racism and post articles on the subject questions what they see as their absolute right to control debate on this site. Posts about racism amount to trolling for one reason--they see people of color as unimportant, as outside the body politic, just as they do feminists. Their view of the acceptable political debate is rooted in white supremacy, and that is what they enforce, even if they lack the awareness that they are doing so. (Yet it is hard to imagine they cannot be aware, given how blatant they are).
Black people are tolerated only if they don't act too black, only if they keep their mouths shut and behave in ways that never contest white power. They will tolerate no ideas that suggest that they are not superior in all ways. They believe themselves liberal, whereas the majority of the public who is not white, elderly, and prosperous are trolls, defined as illegitimate and inferior because they have the audacity to raise issues that make the entitled uncomfortable. As we saw in the various witchunting threads and alert stalking, they work tirelessly to silence anyone, particularly people of color and feminists, who dare to discuss ideas like racism and violence against women that they believe too insignificant--insignificant because they view the people affected as unworthy of consideration-- to appear on this website. They are threatened by the fact even a handful of African Americans are allowed to post on this website or have articles published in the press. That anyone of color speaks about racism--other than to blame the GOP boogeyman--is seen as entirely unacceptable, as trolling, and they will work tirelessly to censor such speech.
However, even if they are successful and manage to ban every person of color and feminist and thereby create the homogeneous site they so desire, time is marching on. They cannot turn the clock back to 1962, no matter how much they try. Their opposition to anyone who looks and thinks differently from themselves makes them entirely irrelevant to the contemporary world. That they have now declared they will not support the likely Democratic nominee for President should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.