I understand America’s history of poor treatment of minorities but what has caused many liberal white people to casually talk as if they aren’t white.

Some examples:

  • A friend has an eastern European neighbor move in. He says he’s glad they are that instead of American white.
  • Feeling they are individually responsible for what their ancestors and/or rich and politically affluent white people did in the past.
  • Acting as if white people anything is bad.
  • Making jokes at their own expense but won’t dare say the same thing to another ethnicity.

I don’t mean this post as a worm-brained right wing or political discussion, but just seeking to understand this odd internalized behavior I’ve seen recently.

Rule 3: Avoid controversial topics (politics or societal debates come to mind, though we are not saying not to talk about anything that resembles these). There’s a guide in the protocol book offered as a mod model that can be used for that; it’s vague until you realize it was made for things like the rule in question. At least four purple answers must apply to a “controversial” message for it to be allowed.

I really don’t mean this to be about politics but about how people act!

Edit Thanks for the report @[email protected] I tried not to frame this in a controversial manner.

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    16 hours ago

    Thanks :) That makes a lot of sense. So this may be explained by trying to actualize and virtue signal (not used in a derogatory manner) what they are not.

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      14 hours ago

      Possibly, they are simply stating very obviously that they’re not racists but the opposites.