I've mentioned before that I have a very large extended family and I got into an argument with a cousin of mine the other day. I generally try to ignore him when he goes on his rants but he was defending CRT and how people are trying to erase history and I couldn't keep silent. Besides being told I'm an Uncle Tom or that I "do the bidding of white supremacists" he gave me the usual talking points that I'm sure everyone has heard ad nauseam.
I asked him who specifically is holding him back, and if he is so concerned about history what is stopping him from getting all the books he wants about whatever topic. Long story short, he stopped talking to me when I said he makes no sense whatsoever, and asked why he doesn't put this energy into helping organizations who work to free victims of slavery/sex trafficking today.
More and more I am very grateful my parents would always tell me that the world owed me nothing and that life is not always fair. I swear a lot of young people seem to be taught that everything will go their way and if it doesn't then you can blame some vague concepts like "systemic racism" or "the patriarchy". Combine that with the endless talk about disparities as if that isn't something that will always occur naturally. Some people have it better than you, some have it worse, some make better choices, and some don't. Life if full of things like that, but there is this ridiculous idea that everything can be perfectly equal if the right people are in power.
I used to think I could open some eyes but I guess I can't, some people are determined to be victims or wallow in their self imposed oppression.
Victimhood seems like a destructive drug worse than an opioid addiction.
China seems to be pushing false victimhood narrative in a similar way we pushed opium on them in the 1800s
The first hit of Victimhood sounds warm and comforting- “you are not to blame…”
But if you consume enough - the end result is you will be incapable of helping yourself
I think there are multiple forms. Some people, historically and in the present, take the attiude of "they are trying to keep us down, BUT WE'RE GOING TO WORK TWICE AS HARD AND NOT LET THEM!"
That is why groups who are objectively victimized in a given society nonetheless prosper, despite decades- and sometimes centuries-long efforts to keep them down.
In Black Rednecks and White Liberals Sowell mentions such groups all over the world. Also I can remember my mom telling me about how Booker T Washington pushed that mentality and that me great grandfather was a big fan of that mentality but unfortunately Booker T is reviled by a lot of the black left.
People are primed to call others 'Uncle Tom', when in reality the people telling the whites what they want to hear are the Ibram Kendis and three-named idiots out there. It's not Glenn Loury getting all the plaudits from the whites.
And it always makes me laugh how nobody sees it as odd that these race grifters constantly bash the “racist” white people but their huge salary is due to white people buying their books and attending their lectures.