from 2017 but well worth reading!
study: White people lack #empathy across the socioeconomic spectrum
Apparent empathy gap among white Americans shows up on questions of both race & economics
#BlackLivesMatter #Socioeconomics #WhitePrivilege #race #economics #cruelty https://www.salon.com/2017/09/19/new-study-white-people-lack-empathy-across-the-socioeconomic-spectrum/
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/john-boyega-star-wars-white-fans-reject-black-heroes-1236352669/
John Boyega Says ‘Star Wars’ Is ‘So White That a Black Person Existing in It’ Is a Big Deal: Toxic Fans Are ‘Okay With Us Playing the Friend’ but We ‘Cant Touch Their Heroes’
By Zack Sharf
Mar 31, 2025 8:35am PT
in my opinion, there are 2 key takeaways from 'white fragility' by robin diangelo:
1. racism is not an ‘either / or’ binary but rather a continuum &
2. the challenge is to accept and grapple with this truth.
full review: https://idealistatheart.com/white-fragility-by-robin-diangelo/
#book #books #bookstodon
#nonfiction #reading #amreading #read #review #bookreview #bookrecommendation
in 'what white people can do next', emma dabiri unveils race as a social construct—something invented rather than something that has always existed.
i loved her voice throughout the narrative. it isn't just strong or matter-of-fact. it's fierce, it's frustrated, it's hopeful, it's kind. it is all of these things, and it is entirely one of a kind.
full review: https://idealistatheart.com/what-white-people-can-do-next/
@DebC Cloaked in #WhitePrivilege I suppose.
@ErgonWolf I care, friend. I just wish more people did or could even admit what's happening, to themselves.
I'm putting up flyers, stickers, "On Tyranny" in Liitle Free Libraries. All trying to wake my neighbors up to the threat.
I'm organizing on here and in encrypted chats. Especially if things get as bad as we know they can.
I've created threads on White Christian Nationalism, Policing & Prison Profits, Big Social & LGBTQ+ issues on a discussion board frequented by mostly middle class to uppermiddle class cis-het white normies.
@lavaeolus and many others are working diligently to save our research and data from the DOGE purge.
We need people with projectors in high traffic areas showing the normies what's going on because most of them have hid their heads in their #WhitePrivilege.
I'm afraid it's going to take a major economic collapse before they come out of their stupor.
tldr: I care & so do others. We just need more.
I'm trying to focus on creative solutions to wake up the normies to this. The ones that have tuned out politics and done nothing else. Those covering their heads with #WhitePrivilege
Do you think white privilege doesn't exist and that #DEI initiatives are not needed?
FACT: When applying to jobs, white applicants receive 36% more callbacks than equally qualified African-Americans, and 24% more callbacks than Latinos.
ARTICLE: The Value of Diversity
https://erep.com/blog/the-value-of-diversity-part-i-the-reason/?utm_campaign=social_media&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=post #diversity #racism #whiteprivilege
#MyWhitePrivilege gave me a chance to learn from the mistakes of my youth without ruining my life.
@ErickaSimone
Laffy used her #WhitePrivilege to bravely flee to Canada and now, rather than concentrate on fixing her new country's own substantial failings, continues to trade on spamming #USPolitics, including and especially bashing Dems.
White people are responsible for this mess, but they won't TAKE responsability.
It's a mutual block, but she keeps popping up with new accounts to keep her clout so I'm constantly playing whack a mole with her posts.
#MyWhitePrivilege means that I have a duty to analyze #WhitePrivilege & destroy whiteness & the cudgel it's used for.
If you're a fellow cis white person, it's time for us to stand the fuck up & take some heat for a change.
“If you call yourself an ally to a group of people and you aren’t getting hit by the stones being thrown at them, then you aren’t standing close enough.” Stan Mitchell
If you are a member of one of these groups or feel personally threatened, please let me know how to best defend you.
I'm brainstorming ways that #MyWhitePrivilege might be able to act as a shield or invisibility cloak because pretending that #WhitePrivilege doesn't exist doesn't help anyone.
Ahhh, Facebook. I just watched some hayseed tell a professor at a major state university that he is a sheep who believes everything "they" tell him. The unmitigated gall of this chawbacon who hasn't mastered punctuation just astounds me. #socialmedia #whiteprivilege
#MyWhitePrivilege means that I've been able to talk my way out of multiple encounters with both cops and angry white men.
How can I use my #WhitePrivilege to help the most vulnerable while working to take down fascism & patriarchy?
I heard this gem on #WMPG today. A new-to-me band, #MoonWalker. Wow!
The Price Of Life Itself (2022)
[Verse 1]
We're raiding drug stores to finally cure the disease
Peel back the skin and see the real thing
Go follow the money, tell me where it leads you
Do you think you’re not part of the same machine?
We're bugging phone lines, and tapping into your dreams
Did you think freedom would be free?
We can't provide security ’cause the price tag would be too steep
And who'd finance the enemy?
[Chorus]
Treat our militia like trigger-happy machines
Fеwer lives saved than casualtiеs
We all poison the water, and drink it up because it tastes so sweet
For some, not all
We still believe in angels, and leaving everyone blind
Sentencer says "eye for an eye"
But he still talks to the money
Taking bail and bribe security
The price of life itself
[Verse 2]
You love to talk but you're finished making sense
Ah, ah, ah, ah
Little man with a big mouth
Train him, give him a big gun
Dosed up to do some power tripping
There ain't no justice, white judge addresses all white jury
Hear no perspective that don't come from white congregations
White legislation proposed by white administrations
Enforced by other-fearing victims of white isolation
[Chorus]
Believe no pictures
We live by prophecies (Ignored by white abominations)
Affirm convictions while we sleep
We walk lambs to the slaughter
To give our sons and daughters what they need
For mine, not yours
We still don't hear no answers
That challenge what we think (Oh, yeah)
Don't need no harsh reality
We can stay above the water
While still lending a hand to those who sink (No way!)
The price of life itself (Not me)
[Interlude]
When I was younger
My momma told me
In this world there are sheep and there are wolves
And you can be whichever one you want to be
'Cause when you look like you there’s a choice
And I chose, woo
[Outro]
But momma didn’t raise no wolf
And I was never really one to fight
You know I never had no friends
But that's life
I thought it always looked like fun
When they gun ’em down on the TV
In the cops I saw a hero
'Cause you know they all looked just like me
Just like me
How's that?
Try white, rich, Christian and unstable
And they ain't gotta take no accountability
They just say that they were scared and under pressure
As if that’s not the only special skill set needed to do their job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVvjOhH0KHg
#FridayNightMusic #FridayNightMusicVideos #ACAB #WhitePrivilege #ActivismThroughMusic
White Privilege: the polished veneer of "fairness" & "equality" draped over an unshakable commitment to whiteness as the default setting. Might critique Supremacy in whispers, but only to protect its own image. Holy Grail is diversity, as long the rules, the rulers & the stage remains comfortably white.
Götterdämmerung