His accusatory use of the word "appease" says it all: he is at war with white people and anything from a fellow black person that does not signal battle mode is "appeasement" of the enemy. Yikes. Thank you for your solid, sane replies. I hope a seed was planted. It still surprises me how often empathy is misconstrued as weakness when it is in fact the key to human connection. Our path to peace.
His accusatory use of the word "appease" says it all: he is at war with white people and anything from a fellow black person that does not signal battle mode is "appeasement" of the enemy. Yikes. Thank you for your solid, sane replies. I hope a seed was planted. It still surprises me how often empathy is misconstrued as weakness when it is in fact the key to human connection. Our path to peace.
"His accusatory use of the word "appease" says it all: he is at war with white people and anything from a fellow black person that does not signal battle mode is "appeasement" of the enemy."
I think you're right, but I also think it's more selfish than this. I think the real problem is that my point of view doesn't validate his desire to see himself as an "acolyte of God" (I swear, you can't make this stuff upЁЯШЕ).
It's not just that a humanistic world view doesn't attack white people, it's that it *does* attack his view of himself as a victim who has the right to use hateful rhetoric. If white people are all evil, he's righteous for thinking this way. But if demonising people for their skin colour is *always* wrong, well, then he's just another bigot.
He may indeed be selfish. Or emotionally immature. Someone who has allowed the pain of his own life to harden him in unhealthy ways. He does sound determined to cling to blame and bigotry, wears it like a shield to deflect every idea that might prick his awareness, crack open and soften his perspective. What a miserable place to dwell.
"Someone who has allowed the pain of his own life to harden him in unhealthy ways"
I'd be very interested to know exactly what pain he's experienced in his life as regards racism. People like Daniel like to imply that their lives have been a constant torment of racial discrimination, but I'm not convinced at all that this is true.
I think so much of this is just learned victimhood, just as with white racists it's learned hatred. It's very rarely based on personal experience, especially for people in younger generations (which Daniel may or may not be). They've just been taught to see themselves, and "the other side", in a certain way.
His accusatory use of the word "appease" says it all: he is at war with white people and anything from a fellow black person that does not signal battle mode is "appeasement" of the enemy. Yikes. Thank you for your solid, sane replies. I hope a seed was planted. It still surprises me how often empathy is misconstrued as weakness when it is in fact the key to human connection. Our path to peace.
"His accusatory use of the word "appease" says it all: he is at war with white people and anything from a fellow black person that does not signal battle mode is "appeasement" of the enemy."
I think you're right, but I also think it's more selfish than this. I think the real problem is that my point of view doesn't validate his desire to see himself as an "acolyte of God" (I swear, you can't make this stuff upЁЯШЕ).
It's not just that a humanistic world view doesn't attack white people, it's that it *does* attack his view of himself as a victim who has the right to use hateful rhetoric. If white people are all evil, he's righteous for thinking this way. But if demonising people for their skin colour is *always* wrong, well, then he's just another bigot.
He may indeed be selfish. Or emotionally immature. Someone who has allowed the pain of his own life to harden him in unhealthy ways. He does sound determined to cling to blame and bigotry, wears it like a shield to deflect every idea that might prick his awareness, crack open and soften his perspective. What a miserable place to dwell.
"Someone who has allowed the pain of his own life to harden him in unhealthy ways"
I'd be very interested to know exactly what pain he's experienced in his life as regards racism. People like Daniel like to imply that their lives have been a constant torment of racial discrimination, but I'm not convinced at all that this is true.
I think so much of this is just learned victimhood, just as with white racists it's learned hatred. It's very rarely based on personal experience, especially for people in younger generations (which Daniel may or may not be). They've just been taught to see themselves, and "the other side", in a certain way.