I took an African-American history class in high school and a lot of white students insisted that because they had felt guilty for being white that they were thus victims of racism. THAT then gave them empathetic leverage - or so they thought. So many stupid conversations in that class that began with, "well since I have experienced white racism I know how you feel when..." I think there is partly a need to want to be completely empathetic and then there are the fuck-wads that just want to deny history. Calliope http://steinbockfrau.wordpress.com/
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Date: 2007-04-11 01:51 pm (UTC)I think there is partly a need to want to be completely empathetic and then there are the fuck-wads that just want to deny history.
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