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[–]eddyelric 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I've been seeing a serious uptick in what people, typically PMC liberals, call white supremacy. Fitness, punctuality, saving money, taking care of your children, etc. They're watering the language down for argument points.

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I think part of it is divide & conquer i.e., if we're all fighting about our skin color we won't unite.

But I also think something even more sinister is going on - The Powers That Be are now basically telling people of all colors that life skills that will make them successful are to be despised - what's that all about?

[–]eddyelric 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think it's a form of learned helplessness. If you are so full of despair, you won't fight back. You lose the drive to improve yourself and your situation. You blindly obey what is told to you by people who have it all together.

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That could very well be the motive for trying to gaslight the general public into thinking the skills necessary for success are some sort of white supremacy. Ridiculous.

[–]eddyelric 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'd almost argue it's a form of racism, as if those habits are exclusive to white people and we shouldn't "appropriate" their culture of success. I imagine if one time-travelled to the 1860s-1950s and tried to explain this phenomenon to black Americans. I'm sure they'd laugh at you.

[–]BEB[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think most black Americans now, at least older ones, would laugh at this too - or maybe be outraged, because it is racism to imply that blacks, or any ethnic group, are incapable of basic life skills.