Thread by @_centrism_

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl "In fact 99% of the folks getting offended is white people."

Specifically, Anglo-Saxon people, judging from the pictures I'm seeing. AKA the kind of white people with a 200 year history of treating other white people like dirt.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl Also, the vast majority of the descendants of the old slave owners, not to mention the people who inflicted ethnic cleansing on the Native Americans.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl It's an old game that our ruling class loves to play. Use the pain of one group to derail any discussion of the pain they're inflicting on another group.

If the audience is fooled, privileged bigots can go on being bigots and get praised for their wokeness as they do so.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl They get their victims to turn on each other, and not notice that they have a common enemy. At least, that's the idea.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl Google this: Nativism.

It will explain everything. Mickey White looks and acts like the sort of person who would have been trying to lynch Chris Cuomo's ancestors as they came off of the boat.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl "Call a grown Black Man a 'boy' & see what happens."

Probably not half as much as the person doing that would deserve.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl And then @chick_canon came back with an outburst of anti-white racism.

Newsflash: This kind of response is one of the main reasons why anti-Black racism stays alive in 2019.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl If you keep rewriting history, looking for excuses to turn on people who would be your allies, you're going to run out of allies, because nobody is going to want to put up with that.

"But muh slavery."

I'm from Illinois. Ever hear of it, the Land of Lincoln?

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl We didn't own slaves up here. Specifically, I'm from Chicago, a city that a klansman would have to have a death wish to want to enter.

But this woman was ready to call me a klansman, just because I reflect more light than her.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl This is the amazing thing. As a person of Sephardic and Mirzrahi Jewish descent, I can get death threats from white supremacists in the morning, and magically turn into a privileged white person before lunch.

At least, according to certain activists.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl Apparently, Americans of Southern European descent have been having much the same experience?

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl Where does one draw the line? Are North African and Middle Eastern people dark skinned "white people" or light skinned "black people"? How about Sicilians?

The correct answer: Who cares?

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl If person A is stepping on person B, one can't define that reality out of existence just by lumping the two of them together in some artificial category.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl But then, Chick_Canon almost certainly knew that. After she got done posting that bigoted and historically shaky attack on the impoverished immigrants at Ellis Island, she was over here

https://twitter.com/chick_canon/status/1161294235460677634

acting like she was a particular Italian-American's best friend.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl She's happy to be there, in spirit, for Italian-Americans, as long as they're rich and famous. But if they're poor, they're racists. It's self-evident.

Just ask CanonChick. She'll tell you.

There's a word for what we're seeing out of her. It's called "opportunism."

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl I would argue that it's the real motivation behind a lot of staged anger (and real violence) directed against lower class white "ethnics" by black activists who try to erase real histories of real mistreatment.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl The thought seems to be that the Plymouth Rock-descended factory owner has more power and will thus be a more useful ally than the Polish- and Italian-American factory workers he mistreats.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl To just say "we're siding with him instead of you, because we only care about what's in it for us" would be to kill one's own claims of righteousness, so those so inclined will write up some mythology and try to pass it off as history.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl Fighting for oppression, even as they pretend to oppose it.

Not that I'm surprised. Like I said, I'm from Chicago. I came of age with this terrifying lunatic named Louis Farrakhan on the radio. It was like listening to Hitler, only he was still alive and only a few miles away.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl A lot of the worst anti-Semites I ever met were black. They were siding with the Nazis, and expected that to not backfire.

As the saying goes, "dance with the devil and you're going to get burned."

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl This is where I stop caring about anti-Black racism. I'm not going to support, because it's still BS. I'm certainly not going to practice it, but when others do, as long as nobody I know is being directly affected by it, I'm going to turn a deaf ear to it.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl As one of the people who has personally been abused by the Alt-Right and then watched supposedly pro-justice black activists use people like me as a stepping stone, why shouldn't I?

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl Why should I be open to the idea of being the ally of somebody who is going to stab me in the back the moment she thinks that she can personally benefit by doing so?

How stupid would I have to be to do that?

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl No. Until I see real reform in the black community, I'm done caring about what happens to it. I'm done turning the other cheek. I seriously doubt that I'm alone in this.

If that community wants to have allies, it needs to learn how to be one. It's just that simple.

@chick_canon @BiasedGirl If any wokies or rednecks have any problems with what I just said, you can kiss my brown as.s.

I've had it up to here with YOUR racism.

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