Barack and Michelle Obama shared a fist bump and there was an overheated two-day conversation about whether they were sending secret terrorist messages but
What could make a young white male conservative Republican want to send bombs to people of color, what what what, it’s such an unknowable mystery.
That thing where the response to a clear problem is not to try to solve the problem but to make sure it's known you personally aren't at fault.
The first rule of White Supremacist Club is Clearly Establish Not Everyone Is A Member of White Supremacist Club
The second rule of White Supremacist Club is Why Do You Have To Make Everything About Race, You're The Real Racist
The second rule of White Supremacist Club is Why Do You Have To Make Everything About Race, You're The Real Racist
Well the issue is that our white-dominated society has psychological discomfort acknowledging that we have a white dominated society, or naming acts of racially motivated hate for what they clearly are, but go on with your bad self.
I stated the issue clearly. See previous tweet. Or keep embodying the issue and talking about avoidance.
What's funny about this is, if you read up I never said all white male conservatives were racist. He introduced that element.
Sometimes you set the table with the silverware you brought yourself.
Sometimes you set the table with the silverware you brought yourself.
When you have made yourself comfortable with an unjust society, the important thing is not addressing it.
If you are to avoid addressing it, you must absolve yourself.
To absolve yourself, you must treat every mention of injustice as an unfair attack upon yourself.
So it goes.
If you are to avoid addressing it, you must absolve yourself.
To absolve yourself, you must treat every mention of injustice as an unfair attack upon yourself.
So it goes.
I just really appreciate somebody stepping up to provide such a perfect illustration.
See the issue is that it HAS to be some isolated mystery, even though it is such a common story it happens nearly daily.
Because it can't be racial hate that comes from our society's assumptions.
Because that would mean it comes from us.
And then we'd have to ... change.
Because it can't be racial hate that comes from our society's assumptions.
Because that would mean it comes from us.
And then we'd have to ... change.
So maybe all of this is even true, though there was obviously something more. But when the killer is white, this is the part that takes center stage.
Why? Because it *has* to be an unknowable mystery.
But the answer—the real horror—is the normalcy.
Why? Because it *has* to be an unknowable mystery.
But the answer—the real horror—is the normalcy.
Because what if it's not *despite* the fact that he comes from a normal quiet Christian family ... but *because?*
We don't want to hear that story.
We don't want to hear that story.
But if as we insist it's not normal for young white men to kill people of color, at some point we need to ask ourselves ...
If it's not normal ... why is it so common?
If it's not normal ... why is it so common?
Devastating rebuttal to the point “all shooters are white men,” a point I did not make.
Anyway, goodbye and good luck.
Anyway, goodbye and good luck.
