It’s mostly white people. I’m white. I know these people. I’ve been this person. Yes I agree, there is a meta inequality based on class outside of race. Just like there is “colourism” within non-white communities. These are all valid struggles that are worth fighting, and don’t detract from other battles. They’re in fact necessary skirmishes in a larger war (for universal human dignity, flourishing, whatever you want to call it).
Pardon all the violent analogies. The people at my work have infected me with this way of speaking.
I would agree with that, but the meme is essentially implying that white people’s opinions don’t matter.
This is the exact type of stuff that fuels more racism on the right.
How do you expect to fix inequality by treating people unequally.
implying that white people’s opinions don’t matter
I’m a white person and I definitely did not read that into it. What it literally says is that if you play devil’s advocate for your own amusement, on topics that you don’t have any stake in, without any intention of learning, then you’re behaving insincerely. And that’s bad.
It’s mostly white people. I’m white. I know these people. I’ve been this person. Yes I agree, there is a meta inequality based on class outside of race. Just like there is “colourism” within non-white communities. These are all valid struggles that are worth fighting, and don’t detract from other battles. They’re in fact necessary skirmishes in a larger war (for universal human dignity, flourishing, whatever you want to call it).
Pardon all the violent analogies. The people at my work have infected me with this way of speaking.
I would agree with that, but the meme is essentially implying that white people’s opinions don’t matter.
This is the exact type of stuff that fuels more racism on the right.
How do you expect to fix inequality by treating people unequally.
I’m a white person and I definitely did not read that into it. What it literally says is that if you play devil’s advocate for your own amusement, on topics that you don’t have any stake in, without any intention of learning, then you’re behaving insincerely. And that’s bad.
If you remove race from the meme and your last comment, we are in complete agreement.