A circular pattern of racist delusion.

[Soph0571]

Your common place racist actively chooses not to perspective take on other community’s experiences. They choose not to look outside their privileged and/or segregated lives. They choose to actively ignore the systemic injustices in our systems of governance. By actively choosing to ignore these realities, they give credence to the rhetoric that they are victim when they are in fact just your common place racist wanker. Trump articulates what they are thinking, because he is also a racist wanker, but as your common place racist refuses to recognise their own racism it stands to reason for these deluded cultists Trump is not a racist either. A circular pattern of racist delusion.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. For many people, if they haven't burned a cross in someone's yard or hired a less-qualified white

person over a person of color, they believe they're off the hook for racism. Trump hasn't burned a cross, so he's not racist. Unfortunately this runs deep in the national psyche and it's difficult to have a conversation about how the entire country is built upon white supremacy, and that white people in the aggregate benefit from it.

[JI7]

3. similar to all the talk about whether there is video of him saying the N Word

as if nothing else he has said or done can show this becsuse we don't have him saying the n word on tape.

[RobinA]

2. Maybe,

but the way I see it, not calling these people "privileged" would be a huge step in overcoming their resistance. You may mean "privileged" in a certain way, but they see it as something quite different and react viscerally to being called privileged. Their circumstances do not seem to them to be the least bit privileged. "Privileged" is just making them more pissed off and reactive to ANY argument. When you are trying to change minds, you have to go to where the person is, not repeatedly bludgeon him and then hope he will follow you. "Privileged" is a bludgeon to many people.

[StarfishSaver]

4. "When you are trying to change minds, you have to go to where the person is, not bludgeon him"

I don't agree that being honest is "bludgeoning." We tiptoe around racism and the people who perpetuate it too much.

I've dealt with these people and have learned that anything short of "I agree with everything you say. You've done nothing wrong, there's nothing you can do to improve, and anyone who says otherwise is the racist, not you" is considered "bludgeoning."

Meeting them where they are is a losing battle because they think where they are is just fine. And if you go there and try to move them, YOU are the problem and they dig in their heels and don't budge.

The only way to get people who are this recalcitrant to change is to disrupt their thinking. And that can only happen if they're confronted with truth and sometimes made to feel uncomfortable. That doesn't mean humiliating them or attacking them.

But being expected to go out of our way to make sure they feel comfortable is a losing game and is frustrating and insulting to those of us who continue to have to deal with the consequences of their attitudes and behavior. I wish people were as concerned about our comfort, sense of well-being and desire not to be bludgeoned by daily onslaughts of racism as they are about protecting the feelings of those who inflict it because they mistakenly think that coddling them will lead them to change.

[mercuryblues]

5. They choose to see it a different way

So they can deny their racism to themselves and others. By rejecting the definition of the word privileged in this usage, they are free to deny it exists. It wouldn't matter what word or phrase is used, they would find a way to be poutraged about it so they can claim they are the real victims.

[StarfishSaver]

6. Bree Newsome, as usual, gets it right

Link to tweet

[Hoyt]

7. I learned early that racists never admit -- maybe don't realize -- they are racist. This POS used

to run for office, speaking of "N______ and J____," but swearing he was not a racist, right up until they threw him in jail for burning down a Black Birmingham church.

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