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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,136 posts)
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 10:15 PM Dec 2021

On DeSantis': whites are victims of racism. Okay . . .

They are judged by the color of their skin. Harassed and subject to “corporate racism” at work. Taught to feel bad about themselves and to hate their country. Subject to “dark emotions of pessimism and despair.”

Forget the water hoses, the back of the bus and the disparities that, to this day, affect a segment of the U.S. population. The new frontier in the civil-rights movement is the threat white people and children are facing from “Black communism,” “cultural Marxism” and, the biggest monster: “Woke ideology.”

There’s no need for a Selma to Montgomery march or a lunch counter sit-in. White folks have found a new civil-rights leader in Gov. Ron DeSantis, who in a buzzword-filled news conference on Wednesday rolled out his proposed “Stop W.O.K.E. Act.” The phrase stands for “Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees Act.”

Unlike Martin Luther King or John Lewis, DeSantis doesn’t seek to unify the country behind the call for equal rights. He seeks to divide it by stoking resentment of racial-equity efforts at schools and workplaces, which he equates to critical race theory, the new enemy in the GOP’s culture wars. The theory, taught mostly at law schools, says that racism goes beyond individual actions and is embedded in laws and institutions. It’s been subverted by politicians like DeSantis who describe it as an attempt to admonish white people and make them feel guilty about the country’s not-so-rosy history.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/desantis-march-white-house-whites-213222626.html

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On DeSantis': whites are victims of racism. Okay . . . (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2021 OP
If you feel bad about yourself when taught about discrimination and slavery and CRT then Thomas Hurt Dec 2021 #1
DeSantis knows playing the white grievance card is the best path to the nomination. sop Dec 2021 #2
DING DING! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Dec 2021 #4
yes Skittles Dec 2021 #9
Desantis sucks, bigly. Joinfortmill Dec 2021 #3
Deathsentence is a mental case ! period ! monkeyman1 Dec 2021 #5
I hope he runs for president in 24. Lunabell Dec 2021 #6
Poor white people....they are so mistreated. walkingman Dec 2021 #7
+++ llashram Dec 2021 #10
If only. Then white people would know what it feels like. cbabe Dec 2021 #8

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. If you feel bad about yourself when taught about discrimination and slavery and CRT then
Thu Dec 16, 2021, 10:33 PM
Dec 2021

I think the reason you feel bad about yourself...well, lets stop right there. I doubt any christofascist bigot feels bad about being a bigot.

So I am not sure who De Santis is trying to protect here? His fellow bigots? Conscientious liberal white folks who are aware of their privilege? Really? De Santis is looking out for the libs?

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