Lee: Why do predominantly conservative white men believe that the success of a black person or the opportunity or the access of black person is an existential threat to them?
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They unconsciously know that the seductive myth of white supremacy, upon which they hang their very fragile egos, is total fallacy. So they consciously fight to the point of psychotic episodes to make it true.
Honestly, because it is a threat. White men have had power for centuries, they are scared shitless of losing it. They're doing what white men have always done when threatened. They act out in violence in order to get others to cower. They lie. They make false promises. They scheme. They manipulate.
I think it’s because equality to them means loss of power, status, desirability, and opportunity. For them it doesn’t mean everyone having an equal chance, it means them having less of a chance. Harder to obtain. And that is simply unthinkable.
Conservative white men will always be racist and misogynistic. They fear letting go of the control that they have always had over people of color and women. They will never let this go. It’s a pure power trip.
They've been told and believe that they are the superior race and never imagined they would have to compete and be proven wrong. It's a mental illness.
That is rhetorical, right!? We know it is basic facts that many men don’t want women to have power. They don’t want to have a women “tell them what to do” and certainly not a woman of color. It is the basic level of being a woman that scares them.
Because conservative white men are overwhelmingly mediocre, and would not succeed if they had to actually compete with the wealth of talent that is currently marginalized or overlooked.
Why do they think every woman of color who gets a job is a "DEI hire?" There aren't "hires." DEI is ensuring a wide net is cast for applicants and that they get a fair shot in the process. No company is hiring unqualified and unsuitable people. That's "Nepotism" and they seem comfortable with that.
Because deep, deep down they know they are frauds. They need to put another group of people down to:
1) move up in the world.
2) to distract the world from their shortcomings.
My theory is that living in a right-wing, Fox News fueled echo chamber, enhances white fragility. I don’t know the specific mechanism how this works, but that’s my working theory.
It is a threat to them. If the world just hires the most qualified people without regard to their glorious white maleness, how will they ever succeed?
Failing up is the only chance they've got.
Cuz weak ass white men need a 10 mile head start. Wtf. Grow up white men and work harder. No ones coming to your moms basement to offer u a job that takes no skills and pays 100k. So do the work,
Good question! They have a scarcity mindset like they said certain people are taking their jobs and getting welfare and Snap benefits. I have a problem with that because Brett Favre is the welfare crook and Aunt Becky paid for her daughter to get into a good college. They are not like us!
Obama.
A black man SUCCESSFULLY ran the country without scandal or disaster.
They LOST THEIR MINDS!
The #EntitledWhiteMale is more fragile than a scrotum.
Not all white males are entitled, but there are FAR more of them than there are not. Unfortunately.
Also, why do these men think they are qualified and anyone black, usually with more qualifications, is a DEI hire.
First of all, it's pretty sad that it ever had to be a thing that black people should be hired for high positions. It should be a damn given.
From decades of listening to talk radio, where people like Limbaugh stoked hate, anger, and fear by convincing white men that they were the true victims.
They think women are a threat and beneath them at the same time, which makes me think they're just trying to cope with their insecurities. They know they're not as capable as most women, but their egos won't let them admit it.
Because it is, they wither and languish when their mediocrity is exposed to a level field. Equality looks like opression when you're used to being privileged.
Partly bc #vulturecapitalism makes life in Murka a zero-sum game. There are only finite resources for the plebs, such that we're at one another's throats rather than uniting to fight the oligarchs, fight for a less-regressive tax code, fight for #M4A, etc.
Yeah, it’s perplexing. Some people are just haters. They need someone to be against and to blame for their own inadequacies. It may just be a form of ignorance. Me personally, it makes me happy to to see black folks doing well, knowing how much the deck has been stacked against them, Respect!
They know that black person is smarter, better educated and willing to do the job needed. Those white men have to put black people down to make themselves feel better.
These are the same men trying to make it a law to marry 12 year olds. These men have serious insecurities and yet we elect them to govern. This makes me wonder where we have gone so wrong.
They're equal opportunity haters towards pretty much anyone who isn't a white man. (Childless single women, transgender and LGBTQIA+ folks, non-native English speakers, non-Evangelicals). There's room at the table for all of us but they're terrified of losing their power/control.
Spoiler: Because it IS an existential threat to conservative white men.
The last 500 or so years has been white men spending their time and energy to exploit, enslave and covet the blood, sweat and land of non-white peoples to avoid doing actual work themselves.
- When you're used to privilege, equality looks like persecution.
- Privileged white people are afraid that POCs will treat them the way they treated POC for centuries.
White men feel threatened by powerful people of color because they're afraid powerful people of color will start treating them the way they've been treating minorities.
Conservative society is intrinsically hierarchical along race, gender, and class lines. It's so baked into their mindset that they consider this to be the "natural order" and any change to their hierarchy implies a defiance against that "order."
Egalitarianism is considered an affront to reality.
Probably because predominantly conservative white men are narcissistic fools who feel like they need to be better than other people. They need to put someone down to make them feel privileged. They have no self-esteem within.
The Patriarchy needs to be gone for good! Heritage Foundation needs to be destroyed. They continue to triple down rather than learn how to embrace change. Smh
Because they are the insecure little boys that they consider to be betas, themselves. And they're terrified that anyone might know this - that's why they're willing to throw our nation and women under the bus: just to protect that information.
Because they’ve been faking it their whole lives. They know they’re incompetent in so many ways. And they have been taught they are superior to minorities.
I think it’s women in general, but especially black women. We just need keep doing our thing and stick together. Lift those women around you no matter what color 💝
I very much love the label of 'conservative' because we white liberal males get super sad being lopped in with the filth that has become the conservative male demographic.
Exactly! Podcasters in the manosphere and RW rabbitholes have convinced them to believe in a scarcity mindset. Truth is - when we ALL do better, we ALL do better!
We need to stop pretending we don’t know why they are doing what they are doing and just call it out. We know they don’t want minorities and women to succeed. They want to have control over us. Just say it. Call them out. Let’s stop pretending like we don’t know.
As a white middle aged man, I can tell you that conservative media (especially radio) has been stoking fear of losing "our country" and "our way of life" for decades. My dad passed on in 2014, but as he aged he fell further and further into their traps. It was horrible to watch.
Not sure there’s that much thought. It’s bigoted and ignorant. I think they’re just pissed at the success.
“Must be DEI.”
“Must have slept her way to the top.”
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Projection and fear that others are as bad as they are.
Full stop.
Even William F Buckley Jr was elitist and thought “too many people vote”.
And that Conservative thinking has never changed.
TL;DR: They scared. And they should be.
1) move up in the world.
2) to distract the world from their shortcomings.
The space for existence should not be cluttered with hate and ugliness. There’s room for us ALL. We can all be great!! #makeUSgreatagain
The thing that’s going to suck the most, when I inevitably get shot in some woods is? Why to people this stupid?
Failing up is the only chance they've got.
This is the equivalent of asking why do black men not care about leaving their children fatherless?
It’s framing the question based on a falsehood. Don’t believe the propaganda
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A black man SUCCESSFULLY ran the country without scandal or disaster.
They LOST THEIR MINDS!
The #EntitledWhiteMale is more fragile than a scrotum.
Not all white males are entitled, but there are FAR more of them than there are not. Unfortunately.
Too many "white people" still can't get over POC in any position of authority.
First of all, it's pretty sad that it ever had to be a thing that black people should be hired for high positions. It should be a damn given.
Or, they harm her until they feel she’s beneath them
Obvs, if bids were already being awarded fairly, there wouldn’t be a need for MWBE certification but this is America.
That, coupled with projection and the feeling of a loss of power makes them believe they will be the next marginalized group if they “lose”
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White conservatives fear revenge, retaliation, and retribution for ALL the terrible injustices they've perpetrated on blacks for centuries.
The last 500 or so years has been white men spending their time and energy to exploit, enslave and covet the blood, sweat and land of non-white peoples to avoid doing actual work themselves.
- Privileged white people are afraid that POCs will treat them the way they treated POC for centuries.
Egalitarianism is considered an affront to reality.
Because you don’t hold back people you think you are superior to.
Because every opportunity we are given we do bigger, better more with.
You know why.
They are bloody arrogant and completely wrong. 🤬🤬🤬
The reason is: They are stupid.
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Why do we pay Mace & her to waste time on culture war theater?
“Must be DEI.”
“Must have slept her way to the top.”