Said Saira Rao, quoted in "Ladies, your $5,000 ‘racism supper’ is ready — don’t choke on the guilt new/Dinner parties designed to teach white women about their privilege are serving up lessons on injustice in America" (London Times).
No topic is off limits, but crying and angry outbursts at the table are forbidden; irate diners who don’t excuse themselves will be sent off to calm down, as will anyone weeping.
You'll be given a time out.
“We all know about white women’s tears. It has caused the death of hundreds, maybe even thousands, of black people. And it’s still a weapon,” says [Rao's Race2Dinner partner, Regina] Jackson. Crying derails the conversation, adds Rao: “White women cry, and everything stops and shifts back to your fragile white womanhood.”
Racism — it's what's for dinner.
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Lucien writes:
"I’m pretty sure I read about this scam years ago. It’s the cultural equivalent of paying for a high priced dominatrix — except that dominatrices have more integrity, and much more discretion."
Joe writes:
Will gin-scented tears be permitted at the dinners?
""He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother." [George Orwell, 1984, of course].
Owen writes:
I applaud the comment by “Lucien.” I don’t know anything about dominatrices but I think we all have felt that exquisite thrill of faux guilt where we are *almost* hurt and then all is resolved. It gives meaning to otherwise empty lives.
The problem with these masochistic angry pampered virtue-signaling idiots is that they don’t have enough real trouble in their lives. Maybe we need a good war or famine to sober them up. No worries: it’s coming. It always does.
Bart writes:
The serious problem faced by the left is that there is quite simply not enough REAL racism out there to sustain its racism industry in the lifestyle to which they've become accustomed, and in consequence they have to invent some; at the elitist end by continually broadening the definition to include everything white -- but only white -- and at the lower end by all manner of false-flag operations.
When, however, speaking of "systemic racism" they overlook one key thing -- who has had near total control of the "system" in the last half century since the civil rights movement? Left, or right? Who ran the system of segregation? Democrats, or Republicans? Who ran (and fought for) the system of slavery? Democrats, or Republicans?
A question well-asked is at least half answered.
Mary writes:
Hi Ann
Ok, Not a white woman issue exactly, but maybe an urban/liberal people issue. I couldn’t help but read your post and immediately think of the Portlandia episode “Did you read it?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JLWQEuz2gA
What makes me laugh is for so long I would talk to co-workers in the morning “Did you read in the New York Times… blah blah blah”
It’s the same kind of vibe, ya know? We weren’t worried so much about others except within our own ecosystem. Something like that. I guess we cared but didn’t really do anything about it. Sorry to say I never did. Anything. And I supposedly cared about people. About Justice. About Racial equality. I did nothing.
Ha ha. We watched that Portlandia episode recently. Brilliant stuff
Leora writes: "It doesn’t seem to me to be wise to take advice about how to behave from people who hate you."
Assistant Village Idiot writes:
I worked in fields dominated by white women - social work, nursing - for over forty years, and my wife worked in two more - library science, elementary ed. We volunteered at denominational churches, long recognised as female-dominated over that same period.
We have no idea who the hell she is talking about here. I guess I have had patients with Borderline Personality Disorder like this. Or maybe not that many.
I suppose such women do exist somewhere. Why is it so important to her life that she cares about them?
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