I am a white male, I have a lot to hate myself for. Think about it.
White:
- Superiority Complex
- Destruction of other groups within our ethnicity
- Conquest of other ethnic groups
- Native American near genocide
- Slave Trade (with help from a few other groups)
- Use of Slaves
- Jim Crow Laws
- Holocaust (and hesitation to act against it)
- Economic Rape of Latin America
- Success no matter the cost mindset
- Crusades
- Lynching of African Americans
- KKK
- Setting up the American System that so many hate
- Idea of Color Blindness
- obliviousness
Male:
- Most Crimes
- Most Sexual Assults
- Demeaning Women
- Staying silent when we should act
- Superiority Complex
- Obliviousness
- Gender Blindness
- Ignorance
- Conquering of other groups
- Success no mater the cost mind set
There are more for each group.
Look at that. Several are even repeats so it is even worse. Shouldn't we hate ourselves... everyone else seems to.
And think about it, if we hate ourselves that actually makes life easier. Groups I was born into have screwed the crap out of the world, I am blamed and expected to fix all this crap. It would be so much easier to just agree with the world. If I join them in hating us, hating myself then what they say means nothing.
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"STUPID WHITY YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING, YOU SCREW WITH EVERYTHING!!!"
"Yeah, and not just that but we demean women too. We just suck."
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"Men are just after sex"
"Yeah, pretty much"
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I mean no one can hurt you if your view of yourself is so much lower than theirs is.
You can avoid doing anything about all this too. I mean if you care and think you are actually able to do something about it you have to think and plan and care. If you think you are unfixable you can just enjoy all the escapes we have developed and just not care. That is so much easier.
Self-Hatred opens us as white men up to a world where we can enjoy it. We can enjoy our own company, our pity parties, our movies. We don't have to fix anything or care about the crap in this world, after all every time we try to do something it is just for our benefit anyway, and we can't do anything without screwing up someone elses life, lets just accept it.
And our self respect will be constant, no ones chiding or attacks will ever make us think less of ourselves than we do now. I mean isn't that what everyone wants, us to hate ourselves for enough generations until we have suffered as much as them?
I mean why care? If we try to help people, apologize for the past, spend our time and money to help people excel, we still can't stand tall, cause someone else will attack us for being just like every other white male.
I mean not that our motivation should be respect for helping people, it would come out of obligation for all the crap we have pulled.
I mean who out there is truly calling for equality of the ethnicities? A world where every person can stand tall proud of their ethnicity and gender but with respect and admiration of the others. No one is really proposing that are they? I haven't heard it. The White man is the devil, men are the devil, or adding insult to injury whites fire those right back.
Isn't it just simpler to accept what everyone says and hate yourself so noone elses opinion maters?
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Please see the sarcasm in my conclusion.
But this train of thought was something I investigated recently because this is really what one line of reasoning gave me.
W/O God what reason is there to reject it?
I wanted my post to keep its tone so I put this clarification here.
i think it's frustrating that we give up on trying to change things. we get jaded/burned out/worn down by the world that tells us that things exist a certain way and we can't change it. it's good and noble to try to change it, but in the end we wont be able to change it. i think falling into complacency with that is a major struggle of mine. there's always going to be poor people, so what good is it trying to fight systemic poverty and things like that. i think we need to be more accountable to believe in God's transforming power
Allen J,
I think that it is very easy to hate oneself. I too struggle with it, especially as I move out into more racially diverse areas. I wonder, do these people think I'm here because I have a guilt complex? And then I wonder AM I here because I have a guilt complex. I think we must remember that God's love has freed us up to love and serve without guilt. Somehow we have to learn to not overlook the injustices that have been committed but to move past. I don't know that I have quite figured that out myself.
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