In this fantasy world, they live as a small minority after nearly dying of starvation and disease due to unhealthy living conditions & a lack of hygiene. Saved only by foreign explorers who arrived with offerings of peace & friendship, white people never colonized the world.
It's so weird because on the one hand - yes, scared of everything, but on the other hand you only ever see white people trying to take selfies with mountain lions. It's like irrational fears have replaced the rational ones.
I was just thinking that. Diseases, food contamination, economic ruin, dictatorship, wild animals, environmental collapse, planes falling out of the sky etc... are all fine, but teaching kids about slavery, Spanish signage, seeing rainbow flags in public, & *gasp* pronouns = shat pants.
It’s that main character complex cultivated from day one where the only force of nature that threatens them are another minorities who might be able to become the main character. No possible way a natural virus could bring the world to its knees, it HAD to be from a lab made by evil people
Yes, and White people, at least in this country, created the "righteous white" trope. A white character in a story, who is more "progressive" and "tolerant" than other White people, in historical settings such as the Antebellum period and Civil Rights Movement. 1/2
This trope reassured white audiences that they can root for one white character even if all other white characters are racist. This has created a false assumption that in real life that there would be enough righteous whites to stop racial discrimination or vote against a racist candidate. 2/2
As a white person who isn't scared of everything, or even a lot of things, I might tend to feel insulted. BUT, I'm not insulted because I know exactly what you're talking about and it's completely valid.
The best I can do is to influence as many fellow white people not to be idiots as possible. 😉
An old white woman walked past me and started shaking the other day. I told her I'm not going to apologize for existing. At least she apologized. That's something I guess. I couldn't even imagine living like that. Being afraid of other people.
Read it. Let it register deeply in your conscience. The #UnitedNations predicts 14,000 babies in #Gaza will be starved to death by #Israel in the next 48 hours if Israel’s siege on #aide isn’t lifted immediately. If they knew they would pretend they didn’t—white Christian Zionist nationalism.
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The best I can do is to influence as many fellow white people not to be idiots as possible. 😉