@Cycloptichorn,
Cycloptichorn wrote:Dude, because he is pulling the 'angry white guy' routine. As I've said, this is a very typical line pulled by white dudes who are angry when other white dudes are accused of racism.
You are using a racial stereotype. Just like the "angry black man" stereotype. You can rationalize it away just like the "angry black man" stereotype too about how yes, there are many black men who are angry.
But at the end of the day both are just racial stereotypes and applying them to any individual just because they are angry and the particular race the stereotype is applies to is a broad generalization of the same logical nature that fuels racism itself.
Quote: I've heard it a million times, mostly out of the mouths of my relatives, some of whom don't like it when Blacks complain about their lot in life, period.
You haven't heard it a million times, but I'm sure you've heard it enough But that isn't the point. Do you accept making a generalized racial stereotype out of it?
If someone said they knew a bunch of angry black folk would that mean their use of the "angry black man" stereotype is acceptable?
Maybe it is to you, but it isn't to me.
Quote:There are screeds which can be accurately described as 'angry Black man;' the Rev. Wright stuff, for example. Hot-tempered Black rhetoric isn't anything new either.
I'm not saying that it doesn't exist, but you seem to be ignoring the full context of this stereotype. The stereotype takes this angry man and extrapolates it to others based on race. Black, or white, have nothing to do with it. They are being inserted because of a failure to rise beyond the race of the individual.
So just because of some black folk who are inordinately angry, other black folk have to go out of their way not to be, to avoid being tarred by this same brush. Not because of anything other than being black themselves.
I object to this stereotyping for blacks, and I object to it for whites.
Quote:You have to be aware of something pernicious in order to fight it. Other countries don't make a big deal out of race, in large part b/c they don't make a big deal out of equality. We have chosen to do so. This is the result; issues must be tackled head-on, and yeah, it can get annoying sometimes.
I think it's a bit simplistic to say that the aggression in race relations in America have to do merely with the desire for equality. Prior to the civil rights movement the racism alone was much more aggressive than many countries with more subdued institutionalized discrimination.
The violent and aggressive history of race relations in America pre-dates the concern for equality.
