White guilt on CNN by Jay Knott (07/09/11) ⇌ (Darwinism)
"Yes, it was white privilege that blinded me to the fact I might be the bottom of the barrel on someone else's race card."
Here is an American describing the fact that her Korean boyfriend's parents didn't want him to marry a white girl. Instead of choosing one or other of the logical alternatives:
a. condemning their attitude as racism, or
b. accepting that members of all ethnic groups have the right, and good genetic reasons, to try to encourage in-group marriage,
she flagellates herself for racist attitudes - 'it was white privilege that blinded me'.
And this is in the major media, not on a university website or Indymedia:
And that's not half the reaction they'd have gotten had she been Japanese
(07/09/11)
by Reginald:
And that's not half the reaction they'd have gotten had she been Japanese, I'd reckon;) |