Sure it is. You're asking a vast group of individuals to feel guilty about bad things some of their ancestors did a long time ago. That still doesn't make any sense whatsoever, because these individuals had nothing to do with it. We do sympathize the shit out of them. That's exactly why White Guilt is even a thing. Without the hypersensitive sympathizing, people would see the inanity of feeling guilty for something someone else did. You can't detach "the system" from the individuals. There is no systemic racism without individual racism, and since individual racism is not tolerated at all, there is no systemic racism either. Besides, you've got it backwards: White people will lose their jobs over racist tweets for example, but a black person can laugh about killing white people on national TV and people just mindlessly "Woooo" at him. You have no case. Stop spreading misguided ideas.It's not meaningful to talk about personal responsibility or guilt when it comes to dealing with issues of systemic racism.
The idea is that we ought to sympathize with the struggle of oppressed groups and turn that into a push to reform the system; not out of white guilt, but out of moral conviction.
Yes. Interpersonal racism is treated as an unforgivable sin and a taboo, while systemic racism lies basically untouched.
Really, this doesn't even merit a response. You're just saying "nuh-uh" without backing anything up. But whatever: No I'm not. It's likely you don't understand what guilt means, and how it is distinct from sympathy. Suspicions confirmed. Guilt implies that you did something wrong, and deserve to be punished. The vast majority of white people today never did anything wrong, so they shouldn't be supporting the cause of racial justice out of guilt. They should be supporting the cause out of universal moral duty, because the current configuration of our society is unfair and immoral. You're saying, then, that it's not possible for everyone within a system to act with particular intentions, and yet yield a result that they did not intend or desire at all due to the way the incentive structure is configured? I hope you have proof of this claim, because the field of game theory would be revolutionized.You're asking a vast group of individuals to feel guilty about bad things some of their ancestors did a long time ago.
We do sympathize the shit out of them. That's exactly why White Guilt is even a thing.
You can't detach "the system" from the individuals. There is no systemic racism without individual racism, and since individual racism is not tolerated at all, there is no systemic racism either.
You're just being dishonest. Without backing anything up? Somehow you conveniently ignored Jamie Foxx.Really, this doesn't even merit a response. You're just saying "nuh-uh" without backing anything up. But whatever