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Like any social-political paradigm, it depends upon how it is taught. It can be used to shame white children about being white, a condition upon which they, like any child, have no control.
Unfortunately, too much of the rhetoric does exactly that. It portrays those of European descent as being the sole historical perpetrators of racial oppression, which is utter bullshit. Europeans simply have used that paradigm with greater success than any other ethnic group in history. And here in the US we invented 'Whiteness', a totally fabricated ethnic group, which now comes back to bite so-called 'whites' on the ass.
Rulers have used Fear/Hate of The Other to cement and/or hold their power from the beginning of history and without a doubt beforehand. They knew Tribalism is inherent to human nature. It was a survival trait 'way back when', when one did not know the intentions of another tribe of strangers. Mindlessly accepting strangers is still not a good idea. Just ask any woman.
But mindlessly hating those unlike yourself is not a great idea either, certainly not in a modern complex social order. Gotta take peeps on a one-at-a-time basis.
Unfortunately, too much of the rhetoric does exactly that. It portrays those of European descent as being the sole historical perpetrators of racial oppression, which is utter bullshit. Europeans simply have used that paradigm with greater success than any other ethnic group in history. And here in the US we invented 'Whiteness', a totally fabricated ethnic group, which now comes back to bite so-called 'whites' on the ass.
Rulers have used Fear/Hate of The Other to cement and/or hold their power from the beginning of history and without a doubt beforehand. They knew Tribalism is inherent to human nature. It was a survival trait 'way back when', when one did not know the intentions of another tribe of strangers. Mindlessly accepting strangers is still not a good idea. Just ask any woman.
But mindlessly hating those unlike yourself is not a great idea either, certainly not in a modern complex social order. Gotta take peeps on a one-at-a-time basis.
