Okay man, I'm happy to have a conversation, but if you're not going to even attempt to honestly engage, it's a waste of both of our time. "Revel in the unimaginable suffering inflicted on enslaved people"? What the f*** are you talking about? This is the most idiotic, childish attempt at misrepresetnation that I've ever seen.
As for Germans being Nazi supporters, I think that's a gross oversimmplification. Most were simply too afraid to speak up or felt powerless in the face of the regime. But even if I grant that they were all active supporters, does that make all Germans today equally complicit? Is this a "German" flaw? Or a flaw of those particular German people?
Yes, generalisations are useful, but when we don't apply a basic level of thought and reason to them they very quickly become bigotry. In fact, that's what bigotry is. White people have been behind the vast majority of enslavement and brutality of the colonial eras and beyond. Yes. This is largely because Europeans arrived at the system of capitalism first and imposed it on the rest of the world. Yes. In fact, that's why Asia was less affected by colonialism, because they also had capitalist structures in place during colonialism. We can recognise all of this without claiming that every person with white skin did all of this.
After all, 100% of these colonial efforts were carried out by men. Are you therefore complicit? Are you "revelling in the unnecessary, unimagineable suffering" inflicted on women during the colonial era because you're a man? Are you actively denigrating women because systems built by men still make life harder for women today? Are you a "devil" because of your maleness? Do you still think "generalisations are useful" when applied to you?
Black Americans have never been begging. I have no idea where you got the idea that there's a need to stop doing something that was never done. In fact, I think it's offensive. Black Americans have been demanding equality for years. And succeeding in those demands. Progress has been slower than it should have been. I couldn't agree more. Some people have actively resisted it. Again, agreed. But as frustrating as it is, it's just not a simple as you want to pretend it is.
For example, what in your mind is the finish line? What needs to happen, precisely, for you to say that we've reached MLK's promised land? And what's your plan for achieving it in an instant, instead of the undeniably frustrating "three steps forward, two steps back" process that it's been? Because let me be clear, if you have such a plan, I'm all ears. If you have a clear, measureable, sensible standard for when equality has been achieved, I'll devote all my future writing to shouting it from the rooftops. I don't think any black person wants racial inequlaity to last another second.
But achieving the goal of ending racial inequality will take more than strident, melodramatic talk and calling white people devils. That is actively not helping.
So if you consider anything other than empty, inflammatory rhetoric to be pandering to white people, then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I'm wide open to constructive ideas that can make things better. Sincerely I am. But so far you haven't come close to presenting any.
