White People Problems
We live in a day and age where the only socially acceptable racism is against white people. I wonder if you can put yourself in the shoes of a straight white male who worked their way out of poverty in the Appalachians, and has to hide his hick accent and lack of metropolitan culture, and maybe even his heteronormative sexuality in order to fit into a social justice warrior institution (be it academic, or corporate). I wonder if for a moment, you can realize that the complaints you seem to have here are universal human complaints, untied to race, gender, or sexuality.
If we are going to be inclusive, we need to include everyone — and that means that straight white christian males need a place there too, and not just as the token oppressor class. When the rhetoric changes from the idea that we can neatly divide ourselves into the oppressed and the oppressors, and moves towards tolerance both for a muslim who may believe in shariah law, and a fundamentalist christian who may believe in strict biblical morality, then we’ll be making progress.
We don’t need to agree with each other on every issue (I’m frankly appalled by Jewish male genital mutilation on infants, Islamic shariah law that demands death to homosexuals, and the Christian fundamentalist insistence that the earth is 6000 years old), but we have to be willing to grant common humanity to everyone, especially those we may perceive as aligned with historical figures who may have oppressed our ancestors.
So here’s to true inclusion, which honors and respects straight white christian males as much as they do homosexual brown muslim females who hide their sexuality to avoid the death penalty in their home country.
