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Leftists view POCS as lab rats of sorts, something to be studied and viewed from above and nudged around. The idea that a POC might be doing just fine is alien to them, in fact it saddens and annoys them because they see their 'help' as necessary.
And when a POC tells them "No" that's when the insults start flying, uncle tom, Banana etc...
The idea that a person can't be authentic unless some white leftest puts their seal of approval on them first, almost like a branding of sorts. The whole premise is demented and sick.
There's an old feminist saying that goes something like; "In the game of patriarchy women aren't the opposing team, they're the ball"this is a great way of putting it...and then even challenging the blackness of certain POCs. these people are sick. I'm going to try and find that clip of that WPEM female protestor getting in the face of the black police officer.
I think that applies to identity politics and minorities; the minorities aren't the other team but just the ball that both sides use to score points against the other. Left-liberals will point to the plight of minorities to score against right wingers and the right will point to minority criminality to score against the left liberals.
And on that note this was a good line from the aforementioned review of White Fragility
Corporate America doubtless views the current protest movement as something that can be addressed as an H.R. matter, among other things by hiring thousands of DiAngelos to institute codes for the proper mode of Black-white workplace interaction.
If you’re wondering what that might look like, here’s DiAngelo explaining how she handled the fallout from making a bad joke while she was “facilitating antiracism training” at the office of one of her clients.
And speaking of construction workers it reminds me of a critique of political correctness that Zizek, a leftist but not a liberal, makes. Basically while political correctness is ostensibly supposed to protect minorities its in fact a discourse that is overwhelmingly associated with white upper class liberals. Working class folks tend to use vulgar language so the rise of political correctness among the liberal left has actually alienated one of its traditional voting blocs.When one employee responds negatively to the training, DiAngelo quips the person must have been put off by one of her Black female team members: “The white people,” she says, “were scared by Deborah’s hair.” (White priests of antiracism like DiAngelo seem universally to be more awkward and clueless around minorities than your average Trump-supporting construction worker).
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