The idea that "injustice persists because we allow it" is true at the
societal level, but obscures vast disparities in individual and group power. If you, individually, still listen to Joe Rogan - that may make you come off as a hypocrite, but it doesn't alter the fact that you have a lot less power to effect change than the CEO of Spotify. It's easy for those in such positions to spout platitudes about “empowerment,” which amount to little more than “pull yourselves up by the bootstraps.”
The truth of the matter is that systemic oppression in our society has always relied on divide and conquer strategies.
In 2016, the majority of White women who voted
voted against a White woman.
What does that tell you? Those most narrowly focused on their own individual self-interests are less likely to view equality as the promise of gain than as a prospect of loss.
There are people today who are so worried about losing ground to someone they feel ought to be beneath them – immigrants, LGBTQIA+ people, non-Christians, and so on – that they would rather invest in the structure of inequality itself so long as it gives them someone to look down upon.
That is a tragedy.
And so, we ought to ask ourselves if our cause is individual liberation or meaningful equality.
If we're committed to
equality, then we have to fight as hard for each other as we do for ourselves.
Too many people only care about something when they feel like it impacts them.
I don't care if you're an Eminem fan or not. I said that
in 2003, people were bending over backwards to justify Eminem's use of a vicious racial slur, not unlike the way Ye fans are twisting themselves in knots to excuse his recent outbursts, and you jumped off the top rope to defend him. Nobody asked you to do that.
The rest of this comes off as incredibly passive aggressive and I sincerely think you need to take a step back and ask yourself why you, as a White person, feel it's necessary to take this attitude that it's "weird" to be upset about a song whose lyrics include, "
Never date a black girl because blacks only want your money." You don't think he said that "with any hate?"
How about this one?
"Black girls and white girls just don't mix
Because black girls are dumb and white girls are good chicks"
That doesn't bother you? Okay. Again, that would be easy for you to say if it doesn't affect you.
If it bothers me or someone else, that's "weird?"
Yeah, maybe that rush to defend this guy you're "not a huge fan of" may have been premature.
Do me a favor: look up the lyrics to "Foolish Pride", then report back here and call me weird again for my refusal to forget about it because he took a knee in 2020.
I will be here.
As long as you're there, kindly help me out and report anything offensive that hasn't yet been removed. I'd greatly appreciate it.
These past couple of weeks have been like:
really is? 
