> Being white and angry gets you labeled “Angry White Man”.
The angry label gets applied far earlier to women and black people.
The angry label gets applied far earlier to women and black people.
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/17/14945576/black-whit...
Now imagine if the Black person shows signs of anger.
On the other hand. I once had a really tall (White) manager who you could tell would go out of his way to stand further back from a crowd so we wouldn’t have to look up at him. I’ve had to tell my tall and big stepson to be mindful of his size. He still thinks of himself as this little kid (not in a bad way)
Let’s consider the causes, potentials, and limits associated with addressing the given concerns.
If critical theory has it’s way, the explosion of positivity is part of a built-in feature of commercial capitalism which incentivizes avoiding the problems itself creates. The ceiling on mitigating socially implemented racism is dependent on mitigating the economically implemented racism which associates identity with class, which defines our experiences and therefore our stereotypes.
Given the economic incentive to avoid economic explanations, the cost of disproportionate blame deserves strategic consideration.