Current Events > Does learning about black history and slavery make you feel bad for being white?

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Seems like that's why some white people don't like learning it imo tbh

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no. but i can think of a couple teachers back in grade school who set up situations specifically to make the kids feel guilty for shit that happened a century before they were born...

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We learn about history so we do not repeat it, when history is forgotten its common for the same mistakes to be made in the future.

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No I don't feel guilty for being white. Seems silly to feel bad for having a certain skin color.

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I feel bad for being white because the majority of white people voted for Trump both times.

No, I don't identify with slave owners. Its the damnedest thing.

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Wheres the im asian option

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it's like americans thinking that germany doesn't teach about the holocaust because "students wouldn't wanna hear what they did"

like bitch i was born in 94 the fuck do you think i did

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Nope. People in the past sucked and it's important to learn that.

Hell, a relative of mine was a very brutal Boer bittereinder that fled the Orange Free State after thr British took over due to being a racist murdering piece of shit, but how horrible he was has no bearing on me as a person.

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Guilty of being white... sounds like a minor threat

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I'm black.

But white people shouldn't have to apologise for their ancestors. It doesn't make sense and it doesn't achieve anything.

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I think guilt is largely a buzzword from bigoted white people to write off the motivations of white people who oppose bigotry.

The real question should be, do people answer these types of polls honestly?

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Only things that bug me is white people try to pass off their guilt to me. Bro my ancestors didn't do shit to black people. Stop trying to lump me in with y'all.

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No because my parents are both immigrants and my relatives had nothing to do with what happened in the US in the past.
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No. Sins of the parent is already a dumb concept. Sins of the people from hundreds of years ago based on a shared characteristic is several levels of stupidity above that.

FortuneCookie posted...

I think guilt is largely a buzzword from bigoted white people to write off the motivations of white people who oppose bigotry.

Ding ding ding

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This is some facist level thinking tbh TC. It's pretty similar to how the nazis talked about the jews.

Stay in school kids

Crescente posted...

This is some facist level thinking tbh TC. It's pretty similar to how the nazis talked about the jews.

Stay in school kids

You should take your own advice.

It pisses me off that none of the stuff that I or my family earned or have now was earned legitimately, it was only granted to me through racist policies keeping nonwhites from the same opportunities that my family had.

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jason19192 posted...

You should take your own advice.

White people shouldn't be feeling guilty for what their ancestors did. That's a slippery slope you don't want to fall on. They should learn about history and hope the past doesn't repeat itself, but they shouldn't be feeling guilty nor should anyone be making them feel that way because they never existed when those atrocities happened. TC should be ashamed.

SauI_Goodman posted...

Wheres the im asian option

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Crescente posted...

White people shouldn't be feeling guilty for what their ancestors did. That's a slippery slope you don't want to fall on. They should learn about history and hope the past doesn't repeat itself, but they shouldn't be feeling guilty nor should anyone be making them feel that way because they never existed when those atrocities happened. TC should be ashamed.

I'm talking about the part where you said it's fascist thinking and that it's similar to how nazis talked about jews.

I'm not white
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Crono99 posted...

The Bible itself punishes all of humanity because of a sin committed by Adam and Eve.

Which is fucking insane.

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Can't fix shit unless you understand the roots of the problem.

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Why would I feel guilty? I didn't own slaves nor did my ancestors as they were to busy surviving genocide to try and own other people.

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Obviously the white racists feel guilty about. So that means the ones that are not racist must feel the opposite of guilt.

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Nothing to feel guilty about how else are you supposed to educate people on the manner?

It's a red flag when certain people get up in arms about it though.

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As a man, I feel a little guilty about things men of the past have done. So what's wrong with white people feeling a little guilty for what white people of the past have done?

ThanksUglyGod posted...

As a man, I feel a little guilty about things men of the past have done.

but why though you fucking weirdo?

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I feel sad for what black people had to go through back then but I don't feel bad for being white since that was not something I had any control over.

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Crescente posted...

White people shouldn't be feeling guilty for what their ancestors did.

I dunno, I mean, if you hear stories about slavery and you sympathize with the slave owners, not their victims, and feel the need to make excuses for the perpetrators or paint them in a more favorable or merciful light, maybe "feeling guilty" is the least of the suffering you should go through.

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"Stop taking down statues. We can't forget the past."

"God can we stop talking abou how bad minorities had it? It was the past. Move on."

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No?
Considering my people were victims of an attempted genocide I don't feel guilty
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Choco posted...

but why though you fucking weirdo?

Because of all the wicked shit men have done for thousands of years to make themselves the "superior sex". Now that modern society is still built around that bullshit. So, I have to spend the rest of my life figuring out how I'm a part of that legacy and dismantling it so future generations will have an easier time and can just live their lives.

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Because of all the wicked shit men have done for thousands of years to make themselves the "superior sex". Now that modern society is still built around that bullshit. So, I have to spend the rest of my life figuring out how I'm a part of that legacy and dismantling it so future generations will have an easier time and can just live their lives.

you feel responsible to improve things which is cool but doesn't really explain why you'd feel guilty

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IloveJesus posted...

I'm black.

But white people shouldn't have to apologise for their ancestors. It doesn't make sense and it doesn't achieve anything.

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White people shouldn't "feel bad" about being white when they learn about history.

Most white people in the States aren't even the OG Americans. Most of us migrated here long past. I know my ancestors did.

Instead, it's important to recognize the generational economic impacts this has had on black communities and why the communities are considered still-suffering.

Then again, muh white fragility

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Choco posted...

you feel responsible to improve things which is cool but doesn't really explain why you'd feel guilty

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I feel guilty because there's plenty of stuff I've benefitted from just by being a man

I don't see why white people should be the only ones feeling guilty for slavery when slavery has been omnipresent throughout human history and every race has been both slaves and slavers at some point.

Being that blacks held slaves in Africa, does that make black feel guilty about being black?

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monkmith posted...

no. but i can think of a couple teachers back in grade school who set up situations specifically to make the kids feel guilty for shit that happened a century before they were born...

I get what youre saying the way some teachers teach would actively lead to the class segragating itself down the middle felt bad as a kid.

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ThanksUglyGod posted...

I feel guilty because there's plenty of stuff I've benefitted from just by being a man

but it's literally not your fault so this is an unhealthy mindset

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