Jane Elliot asked this question of a room full of White people. She asked them to stand up if there was anyone in that room who would trade places with a Black person, and when no one stood up, she said that on some level then, they know how Black people are treated in this country, and don’t want that for themselves.

Hey, that’s my argument to the low-IQ crowd when they start talking about how slaves had it so good way back when (three squares a day, a place to live and sleep, great benefits, like getting ‘you up’ texts from the boss). They had it far better than free blacks and even a whole swath of whites!

When I was younger, I genuinely believed that I had never enjoyed any of the benefits of white privilege. I was poor, with no prospects, no hope of any far-off future inheritance, working demeaning jobs, living in crappy apartments, and so on. I would get fairly indignant at any suggestion that I was somehow the…

So disappointed you missed two clear front runners:

Interesting study: white gun owners actually suffer from economic anxiety, on top of the racial animosity that has quite obviously been there all along. On top of which, they tend not to be religious.

Zack Handlen = Neil Degrasse Tyson. He’s not necessarily wrong, but he’s spoiling the fun.
 

Yeah, I think years from now, this will be the Star Trek show that gets a fair deal of critical re-evaluation in its favor. One of the big criticisms about Trek TV in the 90s was how similar and stale Trek has become. Now comes a Trek series with some issues but “stale and safe” aren’t among them. You can never make…

Well said

You’re giving this person too much credit. He doesn’t mean well.

I’m not sure if I’m 100% reading your point in the way that you’re intending, but from what I am understanding...in an ideal world I think your base point is probably fine (anyone should be able to look up to/idolize/emulate/etc anyone, regardless of skin color, and we should encourage that).

But that’s not the world…

I’m not sure this is a very healthy perspective. These arguments assume that white people need to be coddled because they’re not capable of empathy. The reality is more that they’re incorrectly told they need not show that empathy, and your perspective really feeds into that. In reality, those velvet ropes are only…

There’s no “box” except for one that a white person makes for themselves because they don’t see someone who looks like them this one time. That you think white children are barred from playing because they are not in one commercial is more telling of your comfort level then you may realize.

> But to me - selling these toys solely via three non-white kids sends the message that BP isn’t for white kids

“But to me - selling these toys solely via three non-white kids sends the message that BP isn’t for white kids. I mean... it’s the same damn message they’ve been doing for years with other [insert label here] toys and properties, in reverse. In either direction - it’s a harmful message: X plays with X toys, Y plays…

Sure. Full disclosure - I’m a white person. I find it annoying how often ‘but what about white people?!’ gets thrown into discussions under the guise of ‘but wouldn’t it be true equality if!’ So, I can only imagine how annoying it must be for people who are not-white, and who I imagine come up against this much more…

along with a non-black friend wield Shuri’s panther gauntlets