The delusional misled white male persecution complex is really old hat (looks a lot like a MAGA hat, actually). That self-pitying tune gets a poor reception here, because most of us can see right through it for the delusional bullshit that it is.
People who are white, or male, or southern, or working class don’t get shouted down here just because of that. They get answered back when their statements are delusional, or otherwise just plain wrong.
Edit: As a helpful happy mutant pointed out in a PM, “delusional” implies for some hearers of the word, in an ableist manner, a mental illness, a state of mind over which one has no control. I think toxic masculinity can mislead people in ways that they can learn to control, and overcome.
That was my main concern when @anon50609448 thoughtfully started this thread for legitimate discussion and introspection - that some folks with privilege would try to use it as a platform to whinge about how they are “not the problem,” and how they have it “just as bad as anyone who is not White in this country.”
I’m gonna ask you a blunt question about how to talk to people about something. You wrote a lot of words about yourself. Who you are, who your family is, what you want, what isn’t fair that happened to you, how you expect this conversation to go. It’s like a thousand word essay on you. You seem to be arguing that you are a part of white culture but not in a way that has conveyed as much benefit for you as you would like? How is that any problem of ours?
I can resent it, I can wish it weren’t so, I can claim that it’s based in assumptions about it… I can rail against it forever and it won’t change the fact that I still benefit.
It takes a ton of white privilege to assume you can simply “renounce” your white privilege and become a better person (there’s a whole lot of Cultural Christianity baked into this, too, which is also very white).
ETA: Alexandra is correct. The people in the video in the tweet she’s quoting…
And if someone tells you that you did do something racist, find out what so you can not do it again. Don’t get huffy. Don’t get defensive. Be thankful for the opportunity to learn.
“ Cutter, a former Miss Hitler beauty pageant contestant, and Jones, both of Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire, as well as Jack and Scothern were all convicted of having membership of a terrorist group, after a trial in March.
At their sentencing on Monday, Cutter was described as “an active member” by the prosecuting barrister, Barnaby Jameson.
Frustration with a lack of activism in her native Yorkshire led her to join the NA’s Midlands sub-group, whose membership was “determined to defy the ban”.
The 23-year-old, who entered the beauty contest as Miss Buchenwald “
Atrocious people. Also - not sure if the other Nazis were making fun of her by saying she could win a contest for looking like Hitler?
