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Yeah I never got why conservatives are like "YOURE ASHAMED TO BE WHITE."
Maybe it's because some liberals claim to be ashamed of being white? Like I'm not ashamed but I'm not proud either. It's just a colour of person I am and I've never actually had to be seriously challenged by society because of the colour of my skin so there's not really a want to feel proud of it.
I am angry at the inequalities created by people in the past and severely annoyed with the other white people around that make us look like racist assholes though. But they aren't my kind and my heroes aren't their heroes.
It's projection.
Their heroes - yes, the racist, bigoted cunts who were on the wrong side of history - are being torn down, and instead of letting them go, like any sane person would, they're clinging into the feigned positive image.
They also understand that they should be ashamed of still putting these people on pedestals. Obviously they aren't but they get the implication that they should be.
Therefore they go and ignore all the positive white people like John Brown, and project that theoretical shame onto others as the last option, the last attempt to fight back.
Remember, right wingers, especially alt righties and fascists, will always fight based on emotions, feelings, and not based on logical arguments. They're emotionally attached to their heroes, unable to accept the fact that those heroes were actually horrible people, therefore the immediate tactic is to disarm, discredit, and eliminate those who dare say otherwise - because then you don't have to bring logical arguments to the table. There's no need to defend your beliefs against the accusations of being racist, bigoted, ass-backwards, if you can claim that all those accusations are fake news, made up, hoax, or that the person making those accusations is a horrible person and nobody should be listening to them.
The rightoid mindset really is THAT simple. The debate capability of a four year old, combined with ignorance and a fiery belief of being right.
Idk I think for a lot of people its also a LOT of disinformation going around. People I know have parrotted that the civil war wasn't about slavery. They believe that shit.
Hot take: it's ok as a white person to be ashamed of the history and ongoing racial injustice in the USA. Like I'm not ashamed to be white but I'm also not going to pretend like white privilege isn't a thing or that we don't have a history of violence against people of color in our nation.
I think "white guilt" is just a turn of phrase that's been co-opted into something it is not. As a matter of fact I think as white people maybe we should feel some guilt, it's a good thing to feel guilty about all the heinous shit that's happened and still happens because of a person's skin color. That's the appropriate feeling to have when you're reading about say idk the prison industrial complex and feeding black men into it as a form of neo slavery.
It's not about feeling guilty for being white, it's about recognizing your privilege and understanding our past and present problems with race as a country.
I'm not american but I understand your point. I think the terms for how we talk about these issues should change though. Because I don't feel guilty, I feel enraged. I want to fix it, I want it to stop, I want to right the wrongs, not because I feel guilt for them. Because I feel ANGRY about them.