Quote Originally Posted by surviva316 View Post
The very very first thing to recognize is that you don't know dick about dick. This tends to really ruffle the feathers of a lot of straight, white males, but I don't know why.
Since we're talking about divisiveness, this theme has been knocked into us for decades and it is divisive. Trump probably wouldn't be president without it either. If I posted every video I saw of Trump supporters being beaten to a pulp due to being Trump supporters, this thread would be nothing but videos of Trump supporters getting beaten to a pulp. If I posted every example I've seen of gay people claiming that they are more afraid of coming out as Trump supporters than they were of coming out as gay, this thread would be nothing but posting about gay people who are afraid of people harming them because they supported Trump.

My life has included some of the worst shit that can happen to a person, but because I'm a straight white middle class male, I don't understand pain and oppression. I am told that I don't get it and that my back should be like a duck's back. Then the non-straight-white-male is told that whatever grievance they feel, if they can claim it is unique to how they were born or where they grew up, is important and special and tragic and it makes them more understanding of pain and oppression.

Funny story (or not funny): I've witnessed far more racism against whites than against non-whites over the years. I discussed an element of this with a friend, and he just laughed. His rationale for why the examples I gave weren't racism is because he doesn't care if somebody does that stuff to him. The irony is that he cares very much when people do that to non-whites. This is part of the media and intelligentsia hoax. They've hoaxed us into thinking whites don't experience racism because whites are "above it" or members of the faux "first class citizenry", and they've hoaxed us into thinking that non-whites are all oppressed by racism and they need saving. We've been hoaxed into white guilt, which makes us feel like we are the problem; and we've been hoaxed into the white savior complex, which is that it's up to us grand whites to save the poor, unsophisticated non-whites.



Putting the high school lunchroom/4chan logic aside, this isn't really that complicated. If what you do makes others feel bad about themselves, then you--as a decent human--should strive not to do it. If others feeling bad about comments you make empowers you to say even more hateful things, then you're an asshole. Probably worse, actually, more like antisocial.
Note that I meant "up in arms" instead of "feeling bad". The provocation that being up in arms over being offended is reasonable. I understand why people don't respond well to crybullying. I doubt the Trump phenomenon happens if not for all the crybullying of late.