Why is whitey so ****ing lazy?

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YoungDemCA (4,990 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/118758309

Maybe I'm being overly cynical and unfair, but why are so many liberal white people are only now waking up?

Since black people and others who don't fit the normative "white" ideal of American society have been dealing with the likes of Donald Trump and the "Alt-Right" since...well, honestly ever since the ancestors of black Americans were brought here against their will through unspeakable coercion and violence.

by democrats and the Spanish through the muslims and African tibes

And even then, a majority of white voters are voting for Trump. Just like they have been voting for Republicans in record numbers ever since Barack Obama was nominated and then elected as President. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that more of white America is seeing the light, so to speak. But still, I can't help but worry that it might be "too little, "too late."

 

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I just don't get why whitey isn't opening up to you more...

SusanCalvin (6,562 posts) [white person]
2. Many people don't get it until it's their neck.

Empathy, it seems to me, has always been in short supply.

Star Member bettyellen (37,239 posts) [white person]
3. A broad education helps develop empathy- we've dumbed down the nation ...

Star Member SleeplessinSoCal (3,695 posts) [rich white person]
4. FOX NEWS!

Add right wing radio and internet sites that have stoked racism since 2009 and upped it in 2012. Once Romney lost, they gave up any idea of changing their platform and furthered voter registration restrictions from the SCOTUS to state's atty's general.

Add rising gun violence and targeting blacks by PD, it is then regurgitated on the FNC and right wing radio and internet sites.

Repeat. Et voila. Civil War.

Star Member Recursion (50,241 posts) [white person]
5. The Great Woke-ing of 2015 is an interesting phenomenon

And I don't think anybody really has a handle on it. BLM had a lot to do with it, but why it happened how and when it did may be a mystery. It also remains to be seen if it's going to be lasting or has just been a fashion. It's already "shallow and wide", if that makes sense, so the question is whether it's going to get any deeper.

awoke_in_2003 (34,070 posts) [gay rich white person]
13. Maybe social media and cell phones?

Maybe some are finally seeing with their own eyes what the AA community has been saying for a long time. Most people lead a fairly isolated life- the old American rugged individualism myth.

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Alice11111 (6 posts) [mole also white person]
12. Younger generation was raised by college hippy parents

I, and all my friends, taught and lived our values, that racism, sexism, anti gay, and other discrimination was wrong, evil, and ignorant. Our generation fought it and experienced it. (Of course, there were always those on the other side...in those days, military.) Many of the mellenials take these beliefs and rights for granted. It's taking a loud mouth bigot like Trump getting so close to having power to wake them up.

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Alice11111 (6 posts) [mole also white person]
12. Younger generation was raised by college hippy parents

I, and all my friends, taught and lived our values, that racism, sexism, anti gay, and other discrimination was wrong, evil, and ignorant. Our generation fought it and experienced it. (Of course, there were always those on the other side...in those days, military.) Many of the mellenials take these beliefs and rights for granted. It's taking a loud mouth bigot like Trump getting so close to having power to wake them up.

Wow.. What a bunch of B.S. the reason we are having so many issues today is because those oxygen-thieving hippies taught their children that they were special snowflakes and that they should throw a temper tantrum when they don't get their way.  But of course, the big bogeyman of "the military"  is to blame.... 

[SVPete]

WTH is "YoungDemCA" talking about? Doesn't he realize that many Rs - in CA and in other states - voted for Alan Keyes in 1996 and 2000 R Presidential primaries and caucuses? Voted for Ben Carson in 2016 R Presidential primaries and caucuses? Voted for Cruz and Rubio R in 2016 Presidential primaries and caucuses? And then there's Condoleezza Rice, Sarah Palin, and Carly Fiorina, in various contexts.

It would be bizarre for racists and misogynists to be supporting those blacks and women! Not that many DU-folk seem capable or even willing to connect the dots from actions to their talking-points when facts disprove their talking-points.

It's policies, not skin color or genital plumbing, DU-Moron!