jackelgull
An aberration of nature
So the phrase "All Lives Matters" has always rubbed me the wrong way, because it implies an alliance between all Americans, regardless of creed ethnicity or race, with bigots being outside of the norm. That is not true. The election of Donald Trump proves that white people as a demographic will just as likely ally with bigots as with minorities. I want to stress this is not meant to be an individual judgment on all white people, but as an understanding that in our current model of race relations, a minority group cannot fundamentally trust the white majority as a demographic to protect their rights. In this model of race relations, a minority can only really trust others of a similar back ground and shared experience to protect their rights because it is in their best interests to do so too. Any cooperation with white people can only be a temporary coalition based on mutually beneficial goals, rather than an alliance based on shared values.
And the sad thing is, this begins with the actions of the white demographic. Let me start you off with an example, the same example, but one where it happens in an "All Lives Matter" world, and one that happens in the real world.
In the "All Lives Matter" world, we have a bigot boss, doesn't matter how he got there, doesn't matter why he's there, he's the boss of a company, and he's a bigot. So one day he tells his hiring manager, "Don't hire black people" although let's parrot recent political language and rephrase it to "Just throw out the applications of people with inner city sounding names, we all know they won't pass the drug tests anyways". The hiring manager will say, "I'm not doing that" because he knows and the boss knows the boss can't just fire him and find someone who will.
In the real world, we have a bigoted boss who says the same thing, and the hiring manager would go along with it because he himself might agree and because he knows other people would do it.
In both cases, the hiring manager is not a significantly better person than in the other.
And in the real world, this would create the shared experience that makes a touchstone of the black experience, because there is a pattern of bosses and managers like this.
Also in the real world, if a boss decides, "Let's hire these people exclusively to give them a chance from all the places that reject them" everyone would screech reverse racism.
And the sad thing is, this begins with the actions of the white demographic. Let me start you off with an example, the same example, but one where it happens in an "All Lives Matter" world, and one that happens in the real world.
In the "All Lives Matter" world, we have a bigot boss, doesn't matter how he got there, doesn't matter why he's there, he's the boss of a company, and he's a bigot. So one day he tells his hiring manager, "Don't hire black people" although let's parrot recent political language and rephrase it to "Just throw out the applications of people with inner city sounding names, we all know they won't pass the drug tests anyways". The hiring manager will say, "I'm not doing that" because he knows and the boss knows the boss can't just fire him and find someone who will.
In the real world, we have a bigoted boss who says the same thing, and the hiring manager would go along with it because he himself might agree and because he knows other people would do it.
In both cases, the hiring manager is not a significantly better person than in the other.
And in the real world, this would create the shared experience that makes a touchstone of the black experience, because there is a pattern of bosses and managers like this.
Also in the real world, if a boss decides, "Let's hire these people exclusively to give them a chance from all the places that reject them" everyone would screech reverse racism.
