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MrScorpio

(73,714 posts)
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 10:41 AM Jun 2018

The Oppression of White America

Michael Harriot

White people are oppressed.

Stop laughing. It’s true.

In recent years, a narrative has formed and spread among the masses that asserts that white people in America are being subjected to reverse racism, ridicule, public scorn and discrimination. Before attempting to examine (and ultimately dismantle) this preposterous hypothesis, we should acknowledge all the ways in which this premise has manifested itself in mainstream society:

In October 2017, a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard revealed that 55 percent of white Americans believe there is discrimination against white Americans. More Americans agree than disagree that “white people are under attack in this country,” according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Numerous studies have shown that “racial resentment” was the overriding factor for people who voted for Donald Trump.

Anecdotally, there are cases like the recently approved White Civil Rights rally coming to Washington, D.C., sponsored by the same activist who organized Charlottesville, Va.’s Unite the Right march; the rise in claims of “reverse racism”; and the main refrain in the white national anthem: “Not all white people.”

Not to mention the white-tears-induced furor over people of color who blatantly discriminate against the Caucasian masses by using heinous racial slurs like “wypipo,” “colonizer” and—no, this is not a joke—the actual word “white”:




https://www.theroot.com/the-oppression-of-white-america-1827018691
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The Oppression of White America (Original Post) MrScorpio Jun 2018 OP
They are oppressed in that their hearts are tiny and WhiteTara Jun 2018 #1
whoa! heaven05 Jun 2018 #6
Michael Harriot pokes white people with a stick. kwassa Jun 2018 #2
Those comments for the article are something, aren't they? MrScorpio Jun 2018 #3
I asked the question a few weeks ago JustAnotherGen Jun 2018 #4
as usual heaven05 Jun 2018 #5
Standing Your Ground - 1876 Marcuse Jun 2018 #7

WhiteTara

(30,203 posts)
1. They are oppressed in that their hearts are tiny and
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 11:08 AM
Jun 2018

their souls are shriveled from their ideology which oppresses them and like the mean daddy coming home from work, slaps the wife, who hits the child who kicks the dog.

kwassa

(23,340 posts)
2. Michael Harriot pokes white people with a stick.
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 05:30 PM
Jun 2018

They all go crazy. Like fish in a barrel.

And I love every second of it. They are so easy.

JustAnotherGen

(33,785 posts)
4. I asked the question a few weeks ago
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 05:49 AM
Jun 2018

Like - are we even allowed to say/write "white people" anymore? Great minds think alike. Out in GD the usual suspects are in the process of turning the 45 Policy of inflicting sick paid on asylum seekers as a "play to appeal to black people".

Seriously - same shit as two years ago. Hence the recent influx in new group hosts.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
5. as usual
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 07:06 AM
Jun 2018

the topic is an exposure of wypipo and their hypocrisy. Straight, KKKristian white male is my go to as well as wypipo. Hats off

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