I did a couple of recent posts on some Black Lives Matter protests which occurred in Great Barrington, MA and Northampton, MA. For perspective: according to Wikipedia, Northampton is about 87% white: Great Barrington is 94% white. The town I live in is around 51% white: I can’t find official demographics on my particular neighborhood, but I would bet any amount of money whites are a minority in this neighborhood-a sizeable minority, but still a minority; maybe it’s half and half? I don’t know, and I don’t care. I am very happy in my neighborhood; my neighbors-the ones that I know, anyway, are lovely. In 7 years of living here, I have never once seen a Black Lives Matter sign, and even now, there is no sign of any such signs: there is a large banner in one of our parks thanking medical workers who are dealing with covid19, but that’s it. No signs, and so far, no hint of any protests, Thank you God.
A few years ago, I was cleaning homes in Northampton, the town mentioned earlier which is 87% white. Even back then, there were Black Lives Matter signs everywhere: I am certain that it’s much worse now. We are all familiar with white leftists who bend over backwards trying to show us how much they love black people. My question is this: if white liberals love black and brown people so much, why do they never or hardly ever live in the same neighborhoods as black and brown people?
I ask this question after reading an article about how racist and zenophobic white working class Trump voters are. The hostility that rich white liberals have for white working class people is rabid, and I for one am tired of being lectured to by rich white people who live in majority white areas and send their children only to schools that are 90% white.
I am all for freedom, and no one, rich or poor, should be judged based on where they live, but if these rich white liberals want to continue attacking others for supposedly being racist, they need to move out of their all or mostly white neighborhoods, and move in next door to the black and brown people they love so much from a distance: if they really wanted racial equality, they would do it. If they are not willing to do this, then perhaps they should stop accusing others of being racist.
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It’s so true about rich white libs hating working class (and especially rural) whites. And here’s the thing: they don’t know them(us!) at all! F’rinstance, interracial couples have been a thing here for a while, and nobody thinks or thought anything of it. Is that the way it is in NYC? It wasn’t that way on the Philadelphia Main Line. Sure, people would have professed that it was perfectly fine, but they didn’t DO it very often. Plus a lot of my friends whom those libs would call “rednecks” have pretty radical views. ( That’s why they’re for Trump, of course, he’s really no “conservative”; witness the way much of the GOP hates him!) “Bitter clingers”, “deplorable” and lately “not good people”…how dare they? I hope to God they get another kick in the ass in November!
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“I hope to God they get another kick in the ass in November!”
Me too! From your lips to God’s ears!
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“It’s so true about rich white libs hating working class (and especially rural) whites. And here’s the thing: they don’t know them(us!) at all!”
The heartbreaking thing, Hypatia, is that in some cases, at least, they do know us, but they are so closed off and so bigoted that it doesn’t matter what we do or say. The adage that conservatives view their political opponents as misguided but liberals view their opponents as evil is all too true. The rich white liberals I am thinking of really aren’t that rich, but they are wealthier than I am, lol 🙂 And I am related to some of them. My experience is that the slightest whiff of political disagreement causes them to become emotional: they basically threaten to cause a scene if the disagreement continues, so whoever is disagreeing with them changes the subject to avoid a scene. That is what used to happen when I used to see them: I am pretty sure I have been cut off on account of Trump, because you know, all Trump voters are just so racist, or so I am told by white liberals in their ivory towers, from their lily white neighborhoods.
Until pretty recently, I really didn’t care what someone’s political opinions were when it came to being friends with them: I cannot conceive of cutting off a family member for a political disagreement, but all but a handful of the liberals I know have, well, been very distant these past few years. And I am pretty sure it’s because of Trump. Now that I have lost most of my friends and much of my family, lol, I wonder if maybe I should not have been so open minded and tolerant, because they certainly haven’t been that way with me. I wish that I had purposely cultivated more friendships with conservatives, but the thought never really occurred to me. I do have a few conservative friends, but I never went looking for conservative friends. Maybe I should have.
One of my dearest friends from college now lives in an upper class, lily white area and refuses to deal with anyone who disagrees with her about anything when it comes to politics. Because she is so incredibly smart and enlightened. She and I had so much fun together, so many laughs, so many good times: I miss her, but I don’t miss the condescending way in which she sometimes used to speak to me. I made it clear to her from minute one in our friendship that I was a conservative, and she was fine with that until she wasn’t, but she made it crystal clear that in her opinion, I was only conservative because my family was less affluent and well educated than her family was: she would kind of pat me on the head, and basically say, “Oh, you are conservative, you are so unsophisticated, you are so cute” I should have told her to fuck off, there were lots of reasons why I didn’t. One of them being, I thought that maybe if she and I were friends, I could help her to see the light. Or not, I really didn’t care one way or another, and then she decided that I was evil. The closing of the American mind.
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Correction: this is hopefully not the closing of the American mind, but it is most definitely the closing of the leftist mind.
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Fantastic assessment and write-up Judy. A salute to you. Pseudo liberals are poisoning the atmosphere everywhere with their fake concern and narrative.
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Thank you, Sandomina
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