*blinks*
One of the common mistakes white people make is to overestimate their importance in the lives and imaginations of people of colour.
Could that possibly be because race baiters like you never shut up about it?
Racism matters, and microaggressions are important because they often impede our ability to function in the world with ease by stopping us from conducting basic activities like driving, shopping, or even just walking down the street.
*skepticism intensifies*
But at the level of whether a particular white person is interested in dating us or not, I think you would have a hard time finding any woman of colour who would be even mildly concerned about this.Sisonke is just brimming with compassion for us honkeys, isn't she?
I feel bad for him: one of the burdens of whiteness is how much it stunts the lives of those who buy into its deceits.
It's not the first thing that springs to mind when 'the burden of whiteness' crops up, actually...
The bigger question you need to ask yourself is whether your values and his still align. Surely this is not the only area where his attitudes on race show up.
Yes, it must be racism that drives sexual preferences. I mean, what else could it possibly be?
Example #126347 of “Everything the leftists say/do is the polar opposite of reality, and anything they blame others for is always what ‘they themselves’ are guilty of”.
ReplyDelete“One of the common/incessant mistakes "people of colour" people make is to overestimate their importance in the lives and imaginations of white people”. There, fixed it for you!
Perhaps, just perhaps, thinking about why it is that, not only white men, but … non-white men don’t want anything to do with "women of colour" might be worth the ‘persons’ consideration?
“… a hard time finding any woman of colour who would be even mildly concerned …”, Oh my aching sides. You’d be hard-pressed to find a “woman of colour” who didn’t incessantly moan/bitch about it (and write barely legible drivel in The Guardian about it too – I mean the whining complaint that “Nobody wants to date us, why wont anyone date us, you're racist if you don’t date us … we never think about this much” has got to be a stretch even for their usual readership).
[A fact I have noticed is that those, locally, with ‘experience of living closely with/near large groups of ‘ethnic’ people i.e. as in London, have considerably ‘different’ views about them than those whose only exposure is to the TV/film tropes and a few tourists. The former watch and avoid them like the plague, now I wonder why that could be?]
Burden of whiteness!!
ReplyDeleteI really can't my head around what goes on inside the - if I must use the word - mind of such as this.
To be driven literally insane by spite, envy and hatred resulting from an inferiority complex the sheer magnitude of which my peanut brain will simply never be able to grasp.
Me neither.
Delete"Example #126347 of “Everything the leftists say/do is the polar opposite of reality, and anything they blame others for is always what ‘they themselves’ are guilty of”."
ReplyDeleteSpot on! It's almost as certain as death and taxes, isn't it?