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Some creature, portraying itself as a black woman, was on its way to a Ferguson-related hate meeting in New York. A man asked it several times to move its bag, but it was too engrossed in whatever garbage was coming out of its overpriced headphones. Finally, he got fed up with its entitlement and shoved its stuff over, and it flipped out and wrote a Salon article (VDARE) accusing him of white entitlement. This almost reads like that Lindy West piece (ROK) from almost exactly one year ago.

Uncanny.

Quote:How White Entitlement Marred My Trip to a Ferguson Teach-In

A nightmarish train ride reminds me why too many white people don’t get how short black America’s fuse is right now

Brittney Cooper, Salon, December 17, 2014

On Friday, I was on the train to New York to do a teach-in on Ferguson at NYU. Beats headphones on, lost in thought, peering out the window, I suddenly saw a white hand shoving my work carry-on toward me. Startled, I looked up to see the hand belonged to a white guy, who was haphazardly handling my open bag, with my laptop perched just inside to make space for himself on the seat next to me.

That he wanted the seat on the now full train was not the problem. That he assumed the prerogative to place his hands on my bag, grab it, shove it at me, all while my computer was unsecured and peaking out, infuriated me. I said to him, “Never put your hands on my property.”

His reply: “Well, you should listen when I talk to you.” That line there, the command that when he, whoever he was, spoke, I should automatically listen encapsulates the breadth of the battle against racism we have to fight in this country.

Buoyed by his own entitlement, his own sense of white male somebodiness, this passenger never even considered that he might simply try harder to get my attention before putting his hands on my stuff. His own need to control space, his own sense of entitlement to move anything in his way even if it held something of value to another person, his belief that he had the right to do whatever he needed to do to make the environment conform to his will are all hallmarks of white privilege.

In the reverse scenario, a black man would never get on the train, snatch up a white woman’s bag, and shove it in her face. But then black women are rarely entitled to the courtesies proffered to white women, and black people never presume they are entitled to occupy interracial spaces so aggressively.

Post: #2

boring.

Post: #3

Well the guy could have just tapped her on the shoulder. Instead he was kinda being a dick to which she also started being a bitch. She thought he was racist but he was just in "defense" mode at that point.

Not sure there is much more to analyze than the fact that peoples' social skills are subpar at best.

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Well the guy could have just tapped her on the shoulder. Instead he was kinda being a dick to which she also started being a bitch. She thought he was racist but he was just in "defense" mode at that point.

She decided to write a stupid article about it because she has nothing else productive to do to add any value.

Not sure there is much more to analyze than the fact that peoples' social skills are subpar at best exclusive of race lines.

Post: #5

I wonder how much she was paid to wrap her ad for Beats headphones in such drivel?

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Post: #7

WNT with any of your dicks.

Post: #8

(12-20-2014 04:55 PM)enderilluminatus Wrote:  

Wish I could take seeing this back!

Post: #9

(12-20-2014 04:39 PM)Cobra Wrote:  Well the guy could have just tapped her on the shoulder. Instead he was kinda being a dick to which she also started being a bitch. She thought he was racist but he was just in "defense" mode at that point.

I concur. This is another example of people being unable/unwilling to develop any sort of interpersonal skills.

Also, she looks like the same kind of bitch whose sole source of tangible power is requiring me to fill out form 15B-AA in duplicate at the motor vehicle department.

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(12-20-2014 05:10 PM)mikado Wrote:  WNT with any of your dicks.

Thanks!