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ME: "Simply put, it's White Guilt"
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The following was posted by yours truly as a rushed comment on a friend's sharing on Facebook of the video at the end. Hence it presumes certain contexts and is far from complete. It can be understood without watching the video, but the video is still worth watching on its own account--just with my explanations. Simply put, it's White Guilt. Or "White/Western Guilt," as I sometimes say. The protesters believe that America and Western civilization.is inherently tilted toward Whites--i.e., the founding demographic--and so is "racist." "Racism" is defined by them not as an attitude or an ideology, but as a system--THE system. They hold that the tilt toward Whites makes our system unfavorable by nature toward others. So, no matter who any given individual feels, if their words or actions support "the system"--e.g., they stand for the Anthem--they are being "racist." They are upholding the system. Hence, to be "anti-...