@Are0h

A good example is Trevor Noah's monologue on how Donald Trump is America's first African president.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FPrJxTvgdQ

He cut clips between horrible things Donald Trump said and similar things other African dictators had said.

@alienghic This is only relevant if you one completely ignores the history of colonialism on the continent.

And Africa is not a country, so there's no such thing as an African president.

@Are0h ok Donald Trump and Robert Mugabe have definite similarities. Also its totally fair to refer to European dictators of the mid twentieth century.

@alienghic Yeah of course. The both support white supremacy and work to continue it's legacy for their personal gain.

Yes, absolutely. That's where it originated.

@Are0h Mugabe was scarred by white supremacy and colonialism.

The Daily show clips show Mugabe speaking using the language of racism.

That anger he felt triggered his decision to engage in disastrous land reform policies of Zimbabwe, which led to local famines.

In families, children of abusers frequently grow up to be abuser.

I am concerned that societies may behave similarly.

So, just please be mindful of how you define in-group vs out-group.

@alienghic As are most people that decide to be proponents of white supremacy.

No one is arguing the nature of abuse.

You know that's easy to say when you don't have to deal with it everyday. It's easy to focus on the language subjectively when you don't have to worry about dealing with the constant hostility and violence of whiteness.

So pardon me if I'm not amenable to your sensitivities about how you want to interpret what a I say.

@Are0h

FWIW I'm in California, and the majority of whites in California believe and vote differently than the rest of the USA.

https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article119870398.html

I know many of my direct representatives are Black and Asian. So in my world American Black people do end up in positions of power.

While Attorney General Kamala Harris' office argued in favor of prison labor (AKA modern slavery).

Though that may be sound bite slander, I found this story where she tried to recant. https://thinkprogress.org/california-attorney-general-says-her-offices-defense-of-prison-labor-evokes-chain-gangs-5c768fd447a4/

@alienghic You're equivocating as no one is arguing Black folks aren't politicians with unsavory views.

This has nothing to do with anything I've said.

@alienghic @Are0h Mugabe got involved in a deadly internecine struggle with fellow guerrilla leader and later his vice-president, Joshua Nkomo, which was along tribal lines.
He was also banging his current wife while his first one was on her deathbed.
He rewarded his clique, not his people, with land.
And he is a homophobic piece of shit. None if this alters the fact that he has endured racism all his life, which Trump hasn't.

@OutOnTheMoors @Are0h

I was worried about what happens if one gets power. There are many stories of revolutionaries who abuse power once they have it.

I realized those here on mastodon are so far from places of power to stop worrying about what they're doing.

@alienghic @Are0h You might be suffering from the Mandela effect.

@alienghic I have no interest in hypothetical assertions about hate in a country like America.

There is no frame of reference for that kind of statement, so it's purely subjective.

@alienghic @Are0h You can get all the way the fuck out of here with this white liberal concern trolling.

@miql @Are0h

Don't let anger dominate your actions.

Anger can motivate you, but let your reason and empathy control how you seek freedom.

If you just let anger control you, your opponents will be able to manipulate you into making mistakes.

@alienghic @miql LOL, this is one of the most white and passive aggressive things I've read on here.

Kudos.

@Are0h @alienghic It's passive-aggressive as hell. white folks really are useless. LOL.

@miql @Are0h

So what should I do?

If I don't talk to you I don't learn what I don't understand.

@alienghic @Are0h See. You're confused. I'm not here to teach you anything.

@miql @Are0h

That criticism is fair. My lack of knowledge isn't your problem.

@alienghic @Are0h What you're NOT going to do is preach to Black folks about anger and empathy. Gon' somewhere w/ that bullshyt.

@miql @Are0h

I believe empathy is the foundation of all human ethics and morality.

Empathy and meaningful interaction with Black people have caused at least a few white supremacists to renounce their white supremacy.

I have a hunch that the 1960s civil rights leaders deliberately tried cultivate empathy among moderate whites to support ending Jim Crow.

One story is point two in this long essay on empathy. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/six_habits_of_highly_empathic_people1

The other is https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/03/take-money-and-run-how-don-black%E2%80%99s-son-escaped-white-supremacist-movement-he-was-born