"White Guilt" and your opinions on it

[SweetTeaMcgee]

I don't feel guilty for being white. I can't control what people did literally hundreds of years ago. I don't get why black people want reparations for slavery that over time has grown to affect them so little, If not in a positive way with companies wanting to hire people based on race for "equality". I just don't get the mentality behind white guilt.
I've also noticed there are a lot more black people running around trying to get reparations (AKA: getting re-compensated for slavery) than Jews, even though (if the history books are correct) 6 million Jews died in the holocaust in a span of 12 years, and 12.5 million Africans were shipped to America over 341 years with a lot of them being released; Plus the Impact of Hitler, which is closer to modern times I might add, reigned over the Jews for much longer than over Africans in America. I know I'm comparing apples and oranges here, but let's be honest a lot of the reason white guilt even exists is because of black people bringing up the "white privilege" that they think exists because of our predecessors enslaving their predecessors. Imagine if wealthy Jewish-Americans tried to file for 'Holocaust Reparations'. It would be an absolutely retarded disaster.

I know slave reparations weren't the original topic but in my opinion it is significantly intertwined with white guilt.

 

[AnOminous]

I know slave reparations weren't the original topic but in my opinion it is significantly intertwined with white guilt.

Also if this guilt is true, why does it only travel across white bloodlines?

Shouldn't they be demanding reparations from their fellow Africans who actually sold them into slavery, or Arabs who did the same?

 

[SweetTeaMcgee]

Also if this guilt is true, why does it only travel across white bloodlines?

Shouldn't they be demanding reparations from their fellow Africans who actually sold them into slavery, or Arabs who did the same?

Exactly, the only reason the were even slaves in the first place is because of themselves.

 

[MistressCaridad]

Fucking dumb, to be honest. No one should feel guilty over something they cannot control.

Exactly, the only reason the were even slaves in the first place is because of themselves.

The REEEEEEEE EVIL WHITEY REEEEEEEE crowd conveniently forget that it was often black people selling other black people in the slave trade.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

Apparently it's racist to say all niggers are animals and subhuman because of the actions of a portion of their population in the current day, but it's perfectly OK to say all white people should feel guilty over something people who coincidentally had the same skin color as they did, did centuries ago.

I don't buy it.

 

[El Garbage]

Goddammit, I wrote some exceptionally autistic post to this thread before the Great Crash. Something about my ancestors being mongol jew faggots who were also slaves. Anyway, pretend that your minds were blown by my insight.

 

[DailyToastBoat]

It's stupid and doesn't solve anything. Why should I fall on my knees and apologize for something I haven't done or even witnessed?
It's not bad or shameful to be white only because some white people pulled off some stupid shit.
One person can't be responsible for the actions of their entire ethnicity.

 

[Absolutego]

What cracks me up about guilty white people is that they usually have a child's understanding of history and have clearly been fed a narrative that, intentionally or not, places all the atrocities committed under colonialism and slavery on the shoulders of white people and no one else. It's extremely narcissistic when you think about it. "Only our race is evil enough to do these kinds of things! I know this because I have studied the only history that matters - that of Europeans!"

I think maybe one self-flagellating white person I've had this discussion with IRL has already been aware of inconvenient facts like the Arabs being the first to institutionalize chattel slavery, and in her case it was clear she had a complex about being German and having great-grandparents involved in the Holocaust.

 

[RG 448]

I think it’s too specific. There’s nothing wrong with feeling a bad about whatever privilege we (by which I mean anyone) do happen to have in relation to those less fortunate every once in a while, but very few of us have ever actually owned slaves.