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From the article: "The first installments in #WhiteLiesMatter, a hashtag series I intend to post regularly. The series will debunk, with links embedded, various right-wing racist claims about people of color.”
While the writing is questionable, the information is valuable, especially since people don't seem to take notice the improvements of the black community. I hope this campaign bring forth some positive results.
Well done for posting this. However, I'm not clear on what you mean by 'the writing is questionable'. Whose writing? Tim Wise's or the author of the page?
I also think that a lot of people get hung up on 'whiteness' thinking it is used to describe people of European heritage, but not of people who subscribe to the concept of 'whiteness', be they originally from Europe or elsewhere.
Whiteness in that context is not the opposite of Blackness; instead, its a power system aimed to disenfranchise those outside it and to empower those who subscribe to and identify with it. It is those people, those 'white people' to whom the #whiteliesmatter is debunking: the propaganda that sustains it. Otherwise, it forms an educative alternative to otherwise popular 'facts' that remain unchallenged and widely accepted, which serve only to perpetuate a harmful falsehood.
While I do like Tim Wise and his work, I also realize that his popularity, his fame is directly due to his being the palatable face that is listened to in preference to the uncountable instances of people of color saying the same thing and routinely being doubted or accused of overexagerration.
There is nothing new, nor original about this campaign, except the white face that presents it. But its welcome all the same.
Well done for posting this. However, I'm not clear on what you mean by 'the writing is questionable'. Whose writing? Tim Wise's or the author of the page?
Sorry for the lack of clarification on that end. I meant the writer of the page. Phrases such as "White folks" seems... a little questionable to me. Some might construe it to be a little prejudice in meaning, and I felt that I should mention it in advance.
When we can we expect a post on the lies that the left wing radicals perpetuate? Lies spread by those who support the black nationalist movement, hands up don't shoot etc and other false narratives.... Let's not forget those with an over whelming sense of "white guilt."
I think one of the biggest lies that blacks buy into about whites is that whites want to keep blacks down. Nothing could be further from the truth. Whites would much rather blacks be successful, as they wouldn't commit disproportional amounts of white and blue collar crime (much of it racist crime) and be a drain on white taxpayers.
I think one of the biggest lies that blacks buy into about whites is that whites want to keep blacks down. Nothing could be further from the truth. Whites would much rather blacks be successful, as they wouldn't commit disproportional amounts of white and blue collar crime (much of it racist crime) and be a drain on white taxpayers.
You don't speak for all Whites, and could you please provide a source to backup your last claim "much of it is racist crime".
Does this mean that because they matter then they must not be lies?
or failing that
Why does anyone care about color of liar? Seems to me that if it is a lie, the color of the party telling it is irrelevant as the lie itself.
Please clarify.
Lies perpetuated by white media matters, or these small littles lies matter. Please don't be daft.
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