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In the same way that men who take critiques of patriarchy like personal attacks there are white people who take critiques of Whiteness as personal offenses. Whiteness is not simply “being white” or of Euro descent. It’s about protecting ideals of white as powerful, ideal, pure, and superior. So, this can manifest itself in anyone from a KKK member to someone who claims they’re anti-racist but subtly still believes things like “whites are nicer (smarter, cleaner, etc.) than blacks (or any non-Euro white group).”
And to identify with whiteness does not mean you have to be white. People of color can easily give in to the ideal of Whiteness by assimilating and identifying with the dominant racist capitalist patriarchal system. So, this isn’t an attack on white people. White people are just as responsible for combating Whiteness as men have a responsibility to use their privilege to combat patriarchy and work with feminists to dismantle it.
White people should re-mold what it means to be white. To take a stand against the privilege they hold because of the legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and racism and work alongside those who are seeking to end inequality.
Dramatized in Act 2, Scene 2 of Tulpa, or Anne&Me.
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The rich really are different, and not in a good way
Psychologist and social scientist Dacher Keltner says the rich really are different, and not in a good way: Their life experience makes them less empathetic, less altruistic, and generally more…
What I find curious about some of the responses this has gotten is how it parallels what exactly what people said about a year ago when there was a study showing that White people exhibit less empathy for people of color than vice versa. People are coming out of the woodwork disavowing that there is any veracity to the implications of the study.
Yet every time some evo psych bullshit comes out “proving” that men have evolved to rape, that Black women are innately undesirable, that being queer is some sort of genetic defect, or whatever other load of crap that justifies injustice by portraying people as inherently inferior, people swallow that shit whole, adding their own two cents as to why it’s totally and completely valid.
But when careful studies show consistent results that it is the dominant group that is potentially defective in some way (not even saying it’s genetic or biological in the least, just there), suddenly people are so eager to say how it can’t be true.
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Psychologist and social scientist Dacher Keltner says the rich really are different, and not in a good way: Their life experience makes them less empathetic, less altruistic, and generally more selfish.
In fact, he says, the philosophical battle over economics, taxes, debt ceilings and defaults that are now roiling the stock market is partly rooted in an upper class “ideology of self-interest.”
“We have now done 12 separate studies measuring empathy in every way imaginable, social behavior in every way, and some work on compassion and it’s the same story,” he said. “Lower class people just show more empathy, more prosocial behavior, more compassion, no matter how you look at it.”
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