That's mostly because America stops listening at "white"
Cause you ALWAYS have to hear white people out before jumping to conclusions.
Even when America outs a white grifter in government, they'll just then hire him as a cable news pundit.
Cause he's white and still has a valid opinion they couldn't find from someone who's not a grifter.
It's why America's medical, media, political and financial systems keep getting pwned by narcissistic prep school dudes in their 20s.
America will let a slick white person sell it anything.
And this is why the GOP isn't going anywhere.
White Liberal America refuses to deal with it's own white supremacy problem.
White Conservative America has always seen this hypocrisy and has hammered on it to keep them from ever moving to actually dismantle it.
White Liberal America can always be shamed into not being conservative enough, because White Conservative America successfully frames good governance as extreme and racism as a necessary byproduct of society.
And because they too, like money and whiteness.
So Liberals will still offer to meet Conservatives halfway, no matter how far off the map "halfway" is.
White supremacy keeps this country together.
That's the REAL bipartisan unity.
White Liberals loudly call out white supremacy in white Conservative while white Conservatives routinely blackmail white Liberals with their own white supremacy.
White Liberals and Conservatives are an ouroboros of supremacy.
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If someone tries to prove a group of people is worse than another by comparing the number of arrests between the two... ask a few key questions...
1) What percentage of the population was arrested? This is because there's usually only a teeny tiny sliver who was
2) How many people are represented in those arrests? This is because 10 arrests of the same person shouldn't be presented as 10 different arrested people, inflating numbers.
White people made racial laws about who could marry, who could bank, where you could live, who your children could be, what job you could have, what school you could go to, what bathroom you could use...
But it's us obsessed with race.
White people divvied Black people down to Hectadecaroons, concerned with categorizing the amount of Black in someone down to the smallest fractions.
If people from the last group are spouting nonsense, but of the type I think it's important for people to see dismantled, then I'll draw out the logical pitfalls and move on.
Otherwise, I'll either ignore them or hand them some rope.
It's amazing the lengths white people will go to avoid simply saying "Wow. We've made it suck for you for a long time in myriad ways and still are. That's pretty shitty of us, we're sorry, let's fix it."
And even the most superficial understanding of racism in America warrants it.
But it's frequently easier to just lash out at people who have already been hurt for daring to step up and say so.
But instead, white folks will double down,
they'll deny,
they'll solicit academic debate, they'll give statistics a workout,
they'll insist on exemptions, they'll complain that you didn't address their harm nicely enough...
Anything to avoid the slightest bit of introspection.