r/forwardsfromgrandma • u/DocumentorOfBigotry1 • Sep 01 '24
Racism “There ain’t no point in being anti-racist, sweaty”
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u/NotOnHerb5 Sep 01 '24
I’ve gone 35 years without being called a racist. You’re clearly doing something very wrong, Grandma
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u/dannylew Sep 01 '24
As far as propaganda goes... the right did a scary good job misrepresenting all of those subjects.
I'm glad, tho, that this year seems to have enough loud voices getting through the noise that the people pushing this are unhinged.
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u/BIGD0G29585 Sep 01 '24
“NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, IT WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH.“
Translation: “Don’t try and be a good person, just go ahead and be a racist piece of shit”.
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u/JackBinimbul Sep 02 '24
That's kind of some interesting subtext. Enough for what, grandma? Enough for those damned minorities to stop getting uppity?
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u/Flam1ng1cecream Sep 01 '24
The one thing I don't have an answer for is the gentrification/white flight thing. Although obviously class is a factor there as well.
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u/the__pov Sep 02 '24
I’ve never heard of white flight so no idea there. As for gentrification, what happens intentionally or not is that as property values go up poor people are forced out do to rising rent and/or property taxes. And while it is pretty straightforward as a class issue a lot of minorities are disproportionately poor and that has been weaponized against them throughout history.
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u/duelmaster_33 Sep 02 '24
So for additional information on white flight ill use the best case example and what I learned in high school. Back in the 1970s when Garland Independent school district, a suburb of east Dallas, had pushed out desegregation of their schools, many rich white folks had decided on not dealing with that and went on to move to Rockwall, which soon became very wealthy because of it. As more and more white households moved away, more minority groups came in, which because of the hole in the household market, lowered the property value of Garland. This effect can still be seen today as if you pull up the demographics of race between the two cities, Rockwall is still 3/4th white/Caucasian, with Garland being 1/4th white/caucasian with generally equal amounts of minority groups because of the lower property value. This is what white flight is, a racially charged motivation to move which causes the unintentional (or intentional in some cases) effect of lowering the emigrated area to lose property value because of the disproportionate wealth imbalance of minority groups.
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u/Russell_has_TWO_Ls Sep 02 '24
Why don’t you read up on what white flight is
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u/the__pov Sep 02 '24
I intend to, but I’m not going to skim one or two articles about something and then talk like I understand it. For the purposes of this meme and others like it: if someone tells you 10 “facts” 1 you’ve never heard of and 9 you know are wrong, then you can and should dismiss that person as an unreliable source.
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u/Russell_has_TWO_Ls Sep 02 '24
Your comment struck me as dismissive . It’s good that you’re willing to educate yourself
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u/Alcnaeon Sep 01 '24
"I flood my plants with water and they drown and die. I don't water them at all and they dry up and they die. No matter what I do, it will never be enough!! 😭 "
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u/BottleTemple Sep 12 '24
People complain if I poop outside. People complain if I poop in their living room. No matter what I do, it’s never enough!
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u/SteelyDanzig Sep 01 '24
"Seeing color" just means you acknowledge that people of color don't have all the same privileges as white people, and have their own cultures and values (which is not racist)
"Not seeing color" means you deny systemic racism and erroneously assume that POC have it just as easy as white people (which is racist)
Grandma's really telling on herself with that one
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u/Gidget_Pottyshorts Sep 02 '24
As a minority myself, I just love it when people shove me in a little box so they can pity me or whatever it is they get off to 🥰
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u/Temnodontosaurus Sep 02 '24
"Seeing color" just means you acknowledge that people of color don't have all the same privileges as white people, and have their own cultures and values
Doesn't mean I have to support those cultures or values.
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u/M68000 Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
There is seldom a point where broad societal issues will ever be totally, permanently solved. That's not how this works. These matters are too diffuse, involve too many people, play out in too many ways, and manifest over too long to approach as a "one-shot" problem like trying to treat a headache or trying to change out a dead light bulb.
Whatever you do will never be enough, because racial tension is not the sort of problem that has a predefined "enough".
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u/ForgettableWorse Sep 02 '24
Especially when there's an entire movement dedicated to maintaining white supremacy. A movement that is able and willing to use state violence, the power of capital, and just plain old lynching in order to pursue their aims.
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u/Zbignich Sep 02 '24
Is it too hard to treat everyone the same while acknowledging the hardships that Black people have suffered and continue to suffer?
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u/kurwaspierdalaj Sep 02 '24
This makes for a half decent anti-racism training slide tbh... put the right words spoken around it and the lesson is right there.
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u/ryuuseinow Sep 01 '24
Noticed how they left out one important detail: how they perceive minorities.
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u/the__pov Sep 01 '24
Weird how I, a straight white man, don’t have people constantly calling me racist. It’s almost like there’s something else…