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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are so hyper-individualistic in this country that we cannot even begin to process how the “example from half century ago” could have ramifications on the life of your white child and her black best friend.  The inability to build family wealth using the most common wealth building strategies for middle class and working white families over the last 50+ years that colored people were deliberately excluded from is exactly the privilege being discussed. Insurmountable? No. Reason for the white child to feel guilt? Heck no. Relevant to every black family? No. Helping understand why there are systemic issues that need to be tackled?  Yes.  And all Americans should be a part of that solution regardless of their race. [/quote]

I think a lot of people can agree with what you just wrote.

What a lot of people are taking issue with is the rise of Kendi style antiracism that seeks to guilt people into subordinating all other concerns for issues of race.  The whole everything is either racist or antiracist framing is such a blunt way of activating people.  While I understand Kendi sort of approaches this from a philosophical level, many people have taken his worldview as justification to label almost anything and everything racist.  It just tramples over everything and makes a mockery of intersectionality.

I remember not that long ago a mother of a disabled child who was complaining she couldn't be heard.  Some progressive poster shamed her basically for not making race her top priority.  I understand it's a "privilege" for that mother to not have to think about race.  On the other hand, does that progressive poster understand the disabled child could be dealing with issues that might be more debilitating than the color of their skin?

I agree that systemic racism is real, but there's a segment of progressives that need to tone it down and gain some perspective.  People have legitimate reasons to have other priorities, and labeling large swaths of people as racists is a quick way to make them turn on you.[/quote]

But I really doubt that poster's child is disabled because of systemic forces, the way that (some say) black folks, for example, [i]are[/i] systemically disadvantaged by such forces.  For the most part, congenital physical disabilities occur at random across race/SES groups --- or at least no one could say that her child is disabled because of the color of his/her (white?) skin.  And it's not as if "black" and "disabled" are mutually exclusive. What about black families with disabled children?!?!  They certainly can't toss off their race-based challenges to the side because their kid happens to be disabled...hell, the former probably exacerbates the latter. No...they don't have the luxury of de-prioritizing one for the other, because both impact them.

But I agree that it's foolish to flippantly label folks racist and generally think most of the "anti-racist" language is a turn-off. I'm decidedly not woke. But that's because I'm a racial cynic who thinks that most white people don't give a damn about systemic racism anyway...and never will.  It's not a matter of not prioritizing...it's just a non-issue for them. 
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