Yes. Though with a few, very rare exceptions, that “class” amounts to “white people.”
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I think this is really well-written and definitely fits this topic.
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Speaking of whiteness as the default.
Watch the last part too. Shit gets real. Literally.
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I feel this piece deeply. And agree that many of us have been taught that our culture, northern European culture, is “not real” and “doesn’t count.” Of course, this article could also very easily be twisted, and should be handled carefully. Things like this are among the reasons I enjoyed researching my own family history and finding this:
Yes, my family can trace its roots back to this very Scottish castle, and proudly announce that we are Duffuses! If you have not found that proud family tidbit in your past, you should look. It’s there. Maybe not as cool as mine, but hey, we can’t all be Duffuses!
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We probably all are.
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Give white people even a whiff of the kind of policing black people deal with every day and it triggers the kind of meltdown Susan is having.
Sorry, Susan. No sympathy from this quarter. You insisted on it when it’s black people protesting. You don’t get to act hurt because it didn’t just go away because you are white (even if you think that’s how it works).
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Wow. Just… wow.
(And as someone said in the comments, with a few changes, this also makes a good thought piece for men who want to be feminist allies against sexism.)
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Not shocked at the whine, but I am shocked there’s no guns… Or wooden gun looking objects.
Great stuff (funny too). Covers a lot of common facets of white culture.
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To describe this as police brutality is boggling:
They held me for an hour. It was police brutality. The cop at the checkpoint looked at my paperwork and told me to make a U-turn. I said I came through four days ago with my kids. He said, ‘You should not have been let through; turn around.’ I pulled over. I wasn’t going to leave. I said I needed to speak to a deputy. I said I left my kids alone. The deputy told me to shut up. That’s when I started crying. I said I went out to run errands. I tried to show him the plastic drawers I just bought at Walmart. But he was not interested in evidence. He said, ‘Listen, lady, I’ve been here 13 hours listening to bulls**t stories like yours.’”
I am white. I have had nothing but essentially positive encounters with the police – not necessarily pleasant, but I have never been mistreated. _And I would never ever think to call something like this, that they got away with and feel safe enough to write about as “brutality”.
No, it’s not a class thing. Even a rich Black American knows that their money is not a shield and what could potentially happen to them with the cops. But even poor white people are more confident running lies past the cops. It’s definitely a white thing.
ETA:
https://twitter.com/coffeespoonie/status/1262153677097353227
https://twitter.com/coffeespoonie/status/1262153685523673089
https://twitter.com/coffeespoonie/status/1262153693006385152
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BTW, when I say boggling… it’s not that I am unaware that people can be clueless. Especially white people. But knowing that a traffic stop can end in someone shot or beat to death… being told to wait an hour without even being cuffed doesn’t even come onto the radar. And then to write about it, straight-faced… my brain can’t understand how someone can be that clueless and write for a major publication.
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To write about it using real names with no concern that there could be legal repercussions…that’s unquestioned privilege, right there.
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“Here’s my Black friend (who, just coincidentally, is also my employee) to affirm that I’m not racist”:
The “Black friend”:
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That poor girl.
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This thread:
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