{"id":3781,"date":"2007-10-25T22:33:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T05:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/25\/white-liberals\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T22:33:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T05:33:51","slug":"white-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3781","title":{"rendered":"White Liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kai <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaichang.net\/2007\/10\/the-white-liber.html\">writes a post<\/a> entitled &#8220;The White Liberal Conundrum:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve often noted, many white liberals remain oblivious to the depth and breadth of anti-racist work, opting to hide behind the delusion that anyone who votes for Democrats and doesn&#8217;t have a pointy hood in the closet is &#8220;a good guy&#8221; in the movement toward greater social justice \u2014 as though the <a href=\"http:\/\/skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/10\/any-thoughts\/\">Democratic Party<\/a> is some bastion of progressivism and not one of two hands strangling US polity on behalf of the ruling class and the corporate-political establishment which sponsors its power. Some might be surprised to learn that when people of color talk about racism amongst ourselves, white liberals often receive a far harsher skewering than white conservatives or overt racists. Many of my POC friends would actually prefer to hang out with an Archie Bunker-type who spits flagrantly offensive opinions, rather than a <a href=\"http:\/\/temple3.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/08\/nothing-to-do-with-race\/\">colorblind<\/a> liberal whose insidious paternalism, dehumanizing tokenism, and cognitive indoctrination ooze out between superficially progressive words. At least the former gives you something to work with, something above-board to engage and argue against; the latter tacitly insists on imposing and maintaining an illusion of non-racist moral purity which provides little to no room for genuine self-examination or racial dialogue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?a=Ug58TeA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?i=Ug58TeA\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?a=QRu7Cta\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?i=QRu7Cta\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?a=wbgN0YA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?i=wbgN0YA\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?a=nFRBI0a\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/blogandbullet?i=nFRBI0a\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kai writes a post entitled &#8220;The White Liberal Conundrum:&#8221;<br \/>\nAs I&#8217;ve often noted, many white liberals remain oblivious to the depth and breadth of anti-racist work, opting to hide behind the delusion that anyone who votes for Democrats and doesn&#8217;t have a pointy hood in the closet is &#8220;a good guy&#8221; in the movement toward greater [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3781\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}