(07-21-2020, 12:15 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: I still don't get the outrage.  The poster was not criticizing white people or Western civilization.   "White people believe in hard work."  Ooooh, I'm outraged!!!  

If anything, they're indirectly dissing non-white people, although I didn't take it that way, either.    

I think you guys just enjoy being outraged.

I decided to do a search of what "whiteness" means in our society and found the article linked below. While there is factual information there, it's the backhanded way in which it says how white folks think, see and feel about folks from other backgrounds that grinds my gears. Not everyone sees black, brown and yellow folks as "other" or lesser than. They're people. Do they have a different skin color? Yes. Does it matter? It shouldn't and it doesn't to a lot of people. I don't deny there are people who do see different races than white as other, inferior, etc., but not nearly as many people feel this way as folks with an agenda would have us think. 

This junk is being taught in schools and universities as if it's fact. How did they arrive at this conclusion? Polls? Questionnaires? Did they ask everyone or just a certain type of people? I wasn't asked. I don't trust any polls, statistics, questionnaires, etc., because they can be rigged according to the answers the people doing the asking are looking for. 

Interesting article

"Sociologists believe the construct of whiteness is directly connected to the correlating construct of people of color as "other" in society."

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