You Don’t Have To Apologize For Being White(BARF ALERT!)

Medium.com ^ | 5/4/14 | Dex Digital

[Impala64ssa]

Tal. Hey bro.

I want to talk to you for a minute.

I read your article, ‘Why I’ll Never Apologize For My White Male Privilege’. First off, congrats on landing an article on Time. That’s huge.

And I get it, dude. You’re annoyed with the ‘check your privilege’ line. Hey, I am too. I think it’s overused, and it’s basically turned into a meme at this point.

I read your piece. You’re Jewish. Your family, or at least your family a couple generations ago, had it pretty damn rough. And your dad worked his ass off so that you could have the opportunities that he didn’t. That’s great.

But, I want to talk about this line right here:

It was [my grandparents’] privilege to come to a country that grants equal protection under the law to its citizens, that cares not about religion or race, but the content of your character. This is where you messed up, bro.

This country actually does care about your race. A lot.

You brought up some of the horrors of the Holocaust. That’s a pretty heavy card to play off the bat, but it’s not going to work on me.

I forgot to tell you: I’m black. And I bet you can already guess where I’m going with this. You want to tell me about the systematic extermination of six million? I see that and raise you to ten million. You want to talk about a few years of forced labor? Let’s try for a few hundred. You seem to be able to trace your family’s history back pretty far. That’s awesome. I can’t, because they didn’t really keep records for property like that back then.

[Impala64ssa]

I’m thinking it may have been the Ethiopian famine? It does sound familiar.

[Bob]

I seem to recall boxer Muhammad Ali (formerly Cassius Clay) expressing that sentiment rather than a reporter.

[don-o]

Could have been. It was the image of the bodies floating by that stuck in my mind. I have tried to search for it, but had no luck.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

You want to tell me about the systematic extermination of six million? I see that and raise you to ten million.

Total fiction. Even a left-wing academic with a motivation to boost the numbers could only come up with . . . "up to" 4 millions over 400 years on 4 continents.

. . . and there have never been as many Jews in the world as there have been blacks, either - the “six million” figure was most of the Jews in all of Europe. So that is strictly an apples-to-oranges comparison.

The real objection to this guy’s point is that although he shames the Jew for playing the victim card, he isn’t ashamed of playing it himself, whereas he understands quite well that the Jew understands the self-destructive tendency inherent in it.

Fundamentally, his problem with the Jew is precisely that the Jew's family history indicates that victimhood can be transcended - but he prefers to profit from victimhood rather than to transcend it.

[Impala64ssa]

I also remember when the US empassy in Iran was first taken over, Mohammed Ali, to his credit, called those thugs and the ayatollah a “disgrace to islam”.

[Darren McCarty]

Grandpa was Irish, so no sympathy Dex. We didn’t get affimative action either.

[montag813]

Fundamentally, his problem with the Jew is precisely that the Jew's family history indicates that victimhood can be transcended - but he prefers to profit from victimhood rather than to transcend it.

VERY profound point. Thank you. Wish FR had a "LIKE" button.

[JOAT]

Rwanda 1994. The UN stood by and watched.

[Impala64ssa]

Fundamentally, his problem with the Jew is precisely that the Jew's family history indicates that victimhood can be transcended - but he prefers to profit from victimhood rather than to transcend it.
BRAVO!!