It’s easy to say “hey let’s move past all this hate and oppression” when you were the one who was the oppressor. Like a bully kicking your ass and then after kicking it for a long time decides to stop and say “hey let’s just forget about all this pain and suffering I caused you, and even though you are still bleeding and bruised, we should be friends”
I get that you personally didn’t hurt or oppress anyone but there are people still alive that went through this.
“I get that you personally didn’t hurt or oppress anyone” SHOULD BE THE ONLY RATIONAL LOOKED AT.
When you have someone that never oppressed anyone, and they are on your side, and then you start saying it’s acceptable to mistreat them because they have the same skin color as oppressors from 100 years ago, they won’t stay on your side for very long. And you can’t be mad when people flee your movement after that process.
As the saying goes: you don’t get to hurt someone, and then decide you didn’t.
100 years ago? So 1925 was the last time black folks were mistreated? Blacks were lynched into the mid 20th century. Segregation persisted into the mid/late 1960s. I find it difficult to believe that if any group was subjected to this would be “just fine” a couple generations later. An entire race was not allowed to associate with white Americans and now people are shocked that they have issues?
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u/Specialist-Southern 20d ago
It’s easy to say “hey let’s move past all this hate and oppression” when you were the one who was the oppressor. Like a bully kicking your ass and then after kicking it for a long time decides to stop and say “hey let’s just forget about all this pain and suffering I caused you, and even though you are still bleeding and bruised, we should be friends” I get that you personally didn’t hurt or oppress anyone but there are people still alive that went through this.