There’s the whole thing where if you’re white, even if you’re not a bigot, you benefit from systemic racism and a bunch of stupid motherfuckers unable or unwilling to think twist that into “all white people are racist.”
But in my experience the venn diagram between those people and bigots that don’t like being called out is a circle.
Edit: To be completely fair, I have occasionally seen (in print, never in person) the opinion that benefiting from systemic racism makes all white people racist, even if they don’t act or think in any bigoted ways, even if they’re actively anti-racist. But I always assumed those brain-dead takes would be rejected out of hand by any reasonable person, and certainly not lead someone to think the culture in general labels them as a racist just for being white. But I wouldn’t be surprised to learn those articles, or whatever, were boosted in racist spaces to feed their bullshit about “white oppression.”
There’s the whole thing where if you’re white, even if you’re not a bigot, you benefit from systemic racism and a bunch of stupid motherfuckers unable or unwilling to think twist that into “all white people are racist.”
But in my experience the venn diagram between those people and bigots that don’t like being called out is a circle.
Edit: To be completely fair, I have occasionally seen (in print, never in person) the opinion that benefiting from systemic racism makes all white people racist, even if they don’t act or think in any bigoted ways, even if they’re actively anti-racist. But I always assumed those brain-dead takes would be rejected out of hand by any reasonable person, and certainly not lead someone to think the culture in general labels them as a racist just for being white. But I wouldn’t be surprised to learn those articles, or whatever, were boosted in racist spaces to feed their bullshit about “white oppression.”