Quote: (11-01-2017 11:53 PM)JayR Wrote:
Quote: (11-01-2017 11:06 PM)Atlanta Man Wrote:
I am around white people constantly and none of them seem to regret being Caucasian, in fact they seem thrilled to be so.
AM, I don't think the signs are for your well-adjusted friends. They're designed to trigger the self-loathing AIDS Skrillex- and Carl the Cuck-types on college campuses.
I think white people are in a strange place right now. They're still very well represented in major films, sports, politics, pretty much every relevant area of the public sphere. They're still financially doing well relative to other races, and get some positive feedback from the media (OKCupid studies saying that white guys are the most desirable, most well-known actors/sex symbols being white or white-looking).
At the same time, they have campus leaders screaming in their faces (sometimes literally) about how privileged, fragile, racist, or overall bad they are -- something no other group has to go through. They have to deal with their neighborhoods and cities occasionally getting completely altered by demographic shifts -- places they grew up are completely different (and in some cases significantly worse). They have to deal with media messages that openly judge and insult them based on their race.
These are the things outside of their control; within their own culture, they have to deal with rampant divorce and single-motherhood, a complete disconnect from their ancestral culture and roots, and significantly worse mental problems ( at least from what I can tell). The majority of mass shooters are white, and in my own experience, the worst stories of self-harm, hedonism, and broken families that I have seen have unilaterally come from white people.
So basically you have a group of people that has a very bipolar view of itself; on one hand, as the creators of the modern world, the most desirable people in society; on the other, extreme self hatred and feelings of alienation.
My buddy (white) saw his town get overrun with Saudis and Mexicans, parks he played in as a kid get destroyed to make more living space for them. They don't assimilate, speak to each other in their own languages, Saudi women wear the full niqab, and don't give a fuck about the locals. His own father keeps sending him articles about how they need to check their own white privilege. Other whites will viciously attack him for being a Trump supporter. He said he felt internalized shame at the fact that his family gatherings were "so white" -- utterly ludicrous.
I will write more about this in the future, but it is a weird phenomenon that has become impossible to ignore. I doubt things were like this in the 90's or early 2000's/.